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Pierre had been given his orders to make due haste for Lyons, and to drive a unicorn team of three horses instead of a regulation four, whereupon he had muttered a string of oaths which would have caused a Paris wine-shop loafer to blush.
"Don't you see that what he wanted was to get rid of our friend Hamilton by dodging him in front of you for that job? That would have removed him for good. See?" "Heavens!" I exclaimed, feeling humiliated somehow. "Can it be possible? What a fool he must be! That overbearing, impudent loafer! Why!
As a loafer I shall never be original, as I take it that you are." "Yes," said Tristram, "I suppose I am original; like all those immoral pictures in the Louvre." "Besides," Newman continued, "I don't want to work at pleasure, any more than I played at work. I want to take it easily.
Cat and kittens will eat, and frolic, and sleep, through their brief life, and then they will curl up in some dark corner and die. I remember that in one of the late Mr. Joseph C. Neal's "Charcoal Sketches," he puts into the mouth of a very sad and seedy loafer the expression of a wish that he were a pig, and a statement of the reasons for the wish.
Poor Myrtle! I wonder where she is. I see this Arizona paper doesn't say anything about her." Colonel Morrison read over the item again, and smiled as he proceeded: "But it does say that he occupied many places of honour and trust in his former home in Kansas, which seems to indicate that whisky made old Samp a liar as well as a loafer at last.
Madame Cornouiller, who, warned against him, had at once suspected him of being a loafer, a drunkard, and a robber, reflected that since my mother, who was not rich, employed him, it was because he was satisfied with little, and asked herself if she would not do well to have him work instead of her gardener, who had a better reputation, but expected more. The time had come for trimming the yews.
Surely he was an inspiration?" Jeff didn't, this time, trouble to hide the sneer. "Yes. He was. He gave up the chance to be a rich loafer in order to save farmers' babies for fees that he never got." "I'm sure he did. I wish I'd known him. We need to know men like that in this pink-frosting playing at living we have in cities," Claire said sweetly not to Milt but to Jeff. Mrs.
When I leave school I've got to work and make my own living, with just a start from him. He says he's not going to bring any boy up to be a loafer." Jim's eyes grew soft. "I mean to show him I can work, too," he said. They were at the water's edge, and the ponies gratefully put their heads down for a drink of the cool stream that clattered and danced over its stony bed.
Strathdene had been a spendthrift, a libertine, and a loafer till the war shook England. He had been well shaken, too, and unsuspected emotions were aroused. He had learned to fly and insulted the law of gravity with the same impudence he had shown for the laws of morality. In due time he was joined to an air squadron.
Many a young man has sacrificed his individuality on the altar that a profligate companion has built for him. Many a young man who knew right, has allowed some empty-headed street-corner loafer to lower his own high moral tone lest he should seem singular in the little world of society surrounding him.
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