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Tiernan leaned on the desk, and reflectively lighted a Thomas-Jefferson-Five-Cent Cigar, Union Label, the excellencies of which were set forth on large signs above the "ten foot" buildings on Faber Street. "She don't know nothing, Mike," he remarked. "I guess he got wise this morning." The sergeant nodded....
To the other, who objects more plausibly to Dickens's habit of attaching to each of his characters some label which is either so much flaunted all through that you cannot see the character at all or else mysteriously and unaccountably disappears when the story begins to grip the author, Dickens has himself offered an amusing and convincing defence.
"It'll do nicely for the museum, won't it?" said David, "and we'll write a label for it with `Roman snail, found near Rumborough Camp." By this time it was no longer possible to avoid seeing that Miss Grey was waving her parasol in the far distance.
The simple old creature knew no more of the real meaning of art than she did of that of the hieroglyphics on an Egyptian obelisk, but she had lectured on it, and she felt for it the deep reverence common to those who label their superstition with the name "culture." "But I do mean it," returned Fenton, becoming more animated from the pleasure of defending an extravagant position.
The pivot of my politics is a whole-hearted belief in the principles of Democracy. I mean by this, not devotion to certain abstract principles or views of communal life which have had placed upon them the label "Democratic," but a belief in the justice, the convenience, and the necessity of ascertaining and loyally abiding by the lawfully-expressed Will of the Majority of the People.
"I don't like it," he announced abruptly. "Don't like what, Mr Thario?" I inquired. "Joe to you," he corrected. "Mister from you to me belies our prospective relationship. Just call me Joe." "I thought your name was George." "Baptismal whim of the Old Man's. But it's a stuffy label no shortening it, you know, so the fellows all call me Joe. Chummier. Don't like the idea of evading the draft.
'You didn't want me around on this trip, did you? 'It seemed rather unnecessary for both of us to go, I said indifferently. 'Still, perhaps two heads are better than one, as Mr Abney remarked. What do you propose to do when you get to London? He bent forward and tapped me on the knee. 'I propose to stick to you like a label on a bottle, sonny, he said. 'That's what I propose to do.
The remaining instructions, beginning with this last sentence, were not of a nature to excite suspicion. Taken by themselves, they might refer to nothing more remarkable than a remedy in certain cases of illness. First she thought of cutting off the upper part of the label: but the lines of the writing were so close together, that they would infallibly betray the act of mutilation.
Now that his father was gone, perhaps he felt a sort of duty to own himself his father's son; and the failure of liberal philanthropy to realise his ideals, and of liberal philosophy to rise to his economic standards, combined with Carlyle to induce him to label himself Conservative. But his conservatism could not be accepted by the party so called.
A dirty label was pasted on the canister, bearing this quaint inscription in the Italian language: "If there is any of the powder we employ in making some of our prettiest colours, left in here, I request my good wife, or any other trustworthy person in her place, to put a seal on it, and take it directly to the manufactory, with the late foreman's best respects. It looks like nice sugar.
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