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If theres a living in the family, or one's Governor knows a patron, one gets shoved into the Church by one's parents. FRANKLYN. One gets shoved out of it, sometimes, by one's conscience. HASLAM. Oh yes; but where is a chap like me to go? I'm afraid I'm not intellectual enough to split straws when theres a job in front of me, and nothing better for me to do.
Needing no creed yourself, you think all creeds are rubbish." "I'm open to conviction I'm tolerant," I interrupted. "You're as narrow as Sam Franklyn, and as crammed with prejudice," she answered, knowing that she had me at her mercy. "Then, pray, what may be his, or his Society's beliefs?" I asked, feeling no desire to argue, "and how are they going to prove your Mabel's salvation?
* Rushworth, vol. i. p. 358, 361. Franklyn, p. 180. Rushworth, vol. i. p. 363, 364, etc. Franklyn, p. 181. The ill humor of the commons, thus wantonly irritated by the court, and finding no gratification in the legal impeachment of Buckingham, sought other objects on which it might exert itself. The never-failing cry of Popery here served them in stead.
FRANKLYN. I think I shall speak both for my brother and myself, and possibly also for my daughter, if I say that since the object of your visit and Mr Joyce Burge's is to some extent political, we should hear with great interest something about your political aims, Mr Lubin.
Preface to Waller's Works. * Franklyn, p. 50. Kennet, vol. ii. p. 698. He declared his resolution not to confer any office on him, unless entreated by the queen; and he pretended, that it should only be in complaisance to her choice he would agree to admit him near his person.
"Who can have done that?" asked The Sparrow, his eyes narrowing in anger, his gloved hand clenched. "Your enemy and mine!" was the girl's reply. "Franklyn is in Switzerland. Monsieur Henfrey is in Marseilles at the Louvre et Paix and I am here." "Then we have a secret enemy eh?" "Yes and he is not very far to seek. Monsieur Howell has done this!" "Howell!
George bounced from the table, seized his hat. "Who cares a damn about your lager-beer girls?" he shouted; slammed from the house. It was then, while Mr. Franklyn laboriously indited a letter in reply to one received from the lager-beer girl's mother, that George paced Meath Street. At breakfast with Mr.
Shall we find you a first-rate constituency to contest at the next election? One that wont cost you a penny. A metropolitan seat. What do you say to the Strand? FRANKLYN. My dear Burge, I am not a child. Why do you go on wasting your party funds on the Strand? You know you cannot win it. BURGE. We cannot win it; but you FRANKLYN. Oh, please! SAVVY. The Strand's no use, Mr Burge.
He doesnt listen even in the House of Commons. Savvy rushes in breathless, followed by Haslam, who remains timidly just inside the door. Who do you think has just driven up in a big car? FRANKLYN. Mr Joyce Burge, perhaps. Why didnt you tell us he was coming? I have nothing on. HASLAM. I'd better go, hadnt I? CONRAD. You just wait here, both of you.
That was because she was piously brought up, and regarded herself as an instrument. If a statesman remembers that he is only an instrument, and feels quite sure that he is rightly interpreting the divine purpose, he will come out all right, you know. FRANKLYN. The Kaiser felt like that. Did he come out all right? SURGE. Well, let us be fair, even to the Kaiser. Let us be fair.
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