We are all criticised behind our backs, of course, and we have all faults which amuse and interest our friends; and it is not caddishto criticise friends if one is only interested in them.
But the great majority of those who by their caddish behaviour, like the ill-birds of the old adage, foul their own nests, have not this excuse to offer.
Is the fellow who's doing this caddish business merely a lunatic, and so irresponsible?
To think that a chap could go in for such a caddish business.
I suppose it iscaddish to talk of her like this," he went on.
I want to do decent things and I loathe cads, but all the same I do caddish things myself.
It was caddish of him to speak of Gilbert to her, for Gilbert was his friend and her lover.
An' the woods are full of caddish barons and caitiff knaves, you know, aren't they, Uncle Dick?
One cannot tie barons--caddish or otherwise--to trees in these degenerate days.
It is equally caddish to wink and squint at the colour of a man's orchard, like a landscape painter; and then refuse to buy the apples.
It iscaddish to wink and squint at the colour of a man's wine, like a wine taster; and then refuse to drink it.
I only said those caddish things because I was jealous of her superiority'--hurry up, now!
I told them it wascaddish to insult a fallen foe, but they would go and stick up those beastly notices.
It's a shame," he had shouted as the door closed; "a caddish shame!
I know it was a caddish thing to do, especially when you had been so kind.
The conditions of our military occupation with absolute authority over the civilian people provided a unique opportunity for the caddish instincts of "half-baked" youth.
It's a rotten, caddish world, and I'm the rottenest fool in it.
It's too beastly caddish for words, and I'd like to kill him for his rotten advice.
And, of course, if she would promise to be his friend, it would be caddish to make love to her.
I couldn't do a caddish thing like that--I couldn't really.
How funny we are," she said, "when we know all the time we couldn't really do a caddish thing like that.
And if we follow this track of reflection we shall, I think, really find why it is that modern sight-seeing jars on something in us, something that is not a caddish contempt for graves nor an equally caddish contempt for cads.
Nothing underhand or caddish about the man; best man in the world; at any rate, the only man in the world for her.
Now Harry knew his problem of moral conduct in a fiercer form; now, resolving to do what he told himself was the right thing and not the caddish thing, he took the step that made him be the howling cad that they would think him.
He had explained, in those enchanted hours in the park, that it was really by resolve to do the right thing, and not to do the caddish thing, that he had presented himself the howling cad that they would hold him.
