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"Judged by our catches the year through, and the prices we get in the market, O Princess, it is not boasting to say our betters cannot be found, though you search both shores between Fanar and the Isles of the Princes." This was too much for the bystanders. The presence they were in was not sufficient to restrain an outburst of derision. "But the conditions of the race shut you out.
"Never you worry, young sir," she answered tartly, "so long as they don't mind eating after their betters. And as for your man Priske, I saw him twenty minutes ago escape towards Church Street with the Methodists." "Hang it!" put in Nat Fiennes, "if I hadn't clean forgotten the Methodists!" "We left them scurvily," said I; "every Jack and Jill of them but our friend here."
"'T is the fashion of the land to run away, so 't is only a la mode that bondsmen and slaves should imitate their betters." "Yer need n't mount us Americans so hard, seem' as yer took mortal good care ter git in the front ranks of them as wuz retreatin'," asserted an Invincible.
She made mock of Lucy's personal vanity; she sneered at her attempts to ape her betters, shrilly declaring that no one would ever take her for anything else than what she was, the daughter of a vulgar cheese-paring old hypocrite; and, finally, she attacked Sandy as a nasty, greedy, abominable little monkey, not fit to associate with her child, and badly in want of the stick.
She had heard the knock, but not until the lonely prayer was finished would she rise. That was Janie's way. A second knock, louder than the first, sounded, and with it the woman's solemn "Amen." "Be not so hasty, stranger," she muttered, as she withdrew the bar; "learn to wait for your betters." The door swung back, and into the dim light of the bare room stepped a tall man in Continental dress.
Penelope mentioned that she had never known Miss Rachel so particular about the dressing of her hair, and had never seen her look so bright and pretty as she did when she went down to meet Mr. Franklin in the drawing-room. The footman's report was, that the preservation of a respectful composure in the presence of his betters, and the waiting on Mr.
Hodge, it was urged, ought to be content to take both the Law and the Commandments from his betters, since a little knowledge is a dangerous thing. As for the noisy, insolent operatives and artisans of the great manufacturing towns, was there not for them the strong hand of authority, and, if they grew too obstreperous, the uplifted sabre of the military as at Peterloo?
Here they had led to spiritual pride, which was the worst of all the sins! The favorite of heaven could have no respect for the opinion of his betters! The man was bent on returning evil for all the good he had done the boy! It was a happy thing young Crawford understood him! He would be his friend, and defeat the machinations of his enemy!
Oh, I'll larn her what it is to blaggard her betters!" And before anybody could imagine what was coming, she pounced upon Mrs. Of course there were cries of "Order! Order!" and the nearest members Mr. Gorham among the first rushed in; but the mischief was done. Mrs.
I was an American little girl, and American little girls were really they really were!" with a laugh, whose musical sound was after all wholly non-committal. "You did not treat Sir Nigel Anstruthers as one of your betters." "He was one of my elders, at all events, and becomingness of bearing should have taught me to hold my little tongue.
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