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But after dinner, when they had gone into the library, as they usually did in the evening, Patty brought out her fearful array of paper bugbears and laid them before her father. "What are these?" said Mr. Fairfield cheerily. "Ah, yes, I see. The 1st of the month has brought its usual crop of bills."

Arrest of La Sahla My visit to him His confinement at Vincennes Subsequent history of La Sahla His second journey to France Detonating powder Plot hatched against me by the Prince of Eckmuhl Friendly offices of the Due de Rovigo Bugbears of the police Savary, Minister of Police.

Arrest of La Sahla My visit to him His confinement at Vincennes Subsequent history of La Sahla His second journey to France Detonating powder Plot hatched against me by the Prince of Eckmuhl Friendly offices of the Due de Rovigo Bugbears of the police Savary, Minister of Police.

"But I am not going to have any trouble cashing a cheque," she said, "because I have come straight to the man whose business is cheques." "True enough," he said; "I SHALL have to arrange the cheque; there's not a doubt about that; and as for your other bugbears." "I refuse to be frightened by them," interposed Linda. "Have you ever done any business at the bank?" "No," said Linda.

'The Roman population still believed, said Carbury, 'when the patricians had learned to regard their gods as simply useful bugbears. 'The patricians had not ostensibly abandoned their religion. The people clung to it thinking that their masters and rulers clung to it also. 'The poor have ever been the salt of the earth, my lord, said the priest.

Among the prisoners was a young French royalist named La Bourdonnais: when forced by the conscription to enter Napoleon's service, he chose to serve with the chaloupes "because of his conviction that all these flotillas were nothing but bugbears and would never attempt the invasion so much talked of and in which so few persons really believe."

Proprieties of place, and especially of time, are the bugbears which terrify mankind from the contemplation of the magnificent. Once I was myself a decorist; but that sublimation of folly has palled upon my soul. All this is now the fitter for my purpose.

And Alaric thought over the matter coolly also. He looked at it till the bugbears shrank into utter insignificance; till they became no more than forms of shreds and patches put up to frighten birds out of cherry-orchards. Why should the constitution be wounded by the presence of one more commissioner in Parliament?

I had observed formerly that Savary did not coincide in the opinion I had always entertained of Fouche, but when once the Due de Rovigo endeavoured to penetrate the labyrinth of police, counter-police, inspections and hierarchies of espionage, he found they were all bugbears which Fouche had created to alarm the Emperor, as gardeners put up scarecrows among the fruit-trees to frighten away the sparrows.

"Don't you understand that it is just because I like you and am your friend, that I can't bear you to profit by anything which has a shade of dishonour connected with it? If I cared for you less I should be less particular." "That's nonsense! But your conscience and your sense of honour always were bugbears, Christopher, and always will be. They bored me as a child, and they bore me now."