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As the area of competition broadened, so the guilds weakened, until, under Edward VI, being no longer able to defend themselves, they were ruthlessly and savagely plundered; and fifty years later the Court of King's Bench gravely held that a royal grant of a monopoly had always been bad at common law.
He even smiled a little as he said, "My dear chap, have you ever considered the consequences of anything counted the cost before you came to pay? No, never!" "Don't preach to me!" Eustace said sharply. "No. I won't. But don't you talk in that airy way about responsibility to me! Because " Scott's smile broadened and became openly affectionate "it just won't go down, dear fellow!
"And, had the decision been otherwise, the note would have reversed it," I added. The smile broadened. "But, since the note was in no way responsible, nor even persuasive, its sincerity does not matter," she said. "But, if I were to change my mind?" I replied. She glanced at my uniform and at the gleaming Star of the Lion. "They can be removed," I said; "they are only borrowed."
Father and Mother had started out from New York on a desperate flight, with no aspirations beyond the hope that they might be able to make a living. It was the hobo, Crook McKusick, who taught Father that there was no reason why, with his outdoor life and his broadened experience, he should not be a leader among men wherever he went; be an Edward Pilkings and a Miss Mitchin, yea, even a Mrs.
I was not expecting a man of your build." The smile broadened into a deep laugh, and a merry one, I thought, enviously. It was so long since I had laughed. "That was a hobby of the old fellow," he replied. "When I was a boy I had the palpitation of the heart. He never got rid of the idea that I might die at any moment. He was always warning me about violent exercises, the good old soul.
Since then, his views had been broadened by travel and by observation, and it was a reasonable supposition that he was now better qualified than ever before for the duties of the presidential office.
In the early period of Molière's art, before he broadened as an actor, the parts that he wrote for himself were often so much alike from play to play that he called them by the same conventional theatric name of Mascarille or Sganarelle, and played them, doubtless, with the same costume and make-up.
The police officer was uppermost in him now, but he smiled a certain cordiality at the other's frankly unconventional greeting. "That mostly depends on how many things there are chasing around in his brain-box to keep the works busy," he said gently. The stranger's smile broadened into a laugh. "That don't offer much hope," he replied dryly.
They broadened the franchise by giving the right to vote to all freemen; they gave the voters representation in the county courts in assessing taxes; they put an end to self-perpetuating vestries; they fixed the fees of sheriffs, collectors, and other officials; they made it illegal for sheriffs to serve more than one year at a time; no person could hold two of the offices of sheriff, clerk of the court, surveyor, or escheator at the same time; members of the Council were barred from sitting on the county courts.
"And you can't conceive of my acting for the country's good?" Bivens's black eyes twinkled. "Not by the wildest leap of my imagination." The twinkle broadened into a smile as the lawyer continued: "Your code is simple, Cal. There's no provision in it for disinterested effort for others.
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