He fully appreciated the great aim of the public-school-trained man in his own time-the elaborate care with which an officer studied to conceal an enthusiasm for the profession of arms, the great air of indolence with which over-work was concealed in the other fashionable professions.
"George Du Maurier, the Satirist of the Victorians"
T. Martin Wood
The Church naturally shared the indolence of its rulers and patrons.
"English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century"
Leslie Stephen
And to think that I've been abusing you for your indolence!
"One Maid's Mischief"
George Manville Fenn