The Danger of Delay Description of a Mansion–house in Ruins The History of Charles Townley

¹[Mrs Mason, who always regulated her own time, and never loitered her hours irresolutely away, had very frequently to wait for the children, when she wished to walk, though she had desired them to be ready at a precise time.] Mary in particular had a trick of putting every thing off till the last moment, and then she did but half do it, or left it undone. This indolent way of delaying made her miss many opportunities of obliging and doing good; and whole hours were lost in ²[thoughtless] idleness, which she afterwards wished had been ³[better] employed.