All of which it is a comfort somehow to maunder away on here.

As sure as he was there thinking over John Gordon and Mary Lawrie, would he maunder away his mind in softnesses.

A man may maunder away his mind in softnesses till he ain't worth nothing, and don't do no good to no one.

But if it be given to a man "to maunder away his mind in softnesses," he cannot live otherwise than as nature has made him.