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I'll tell you what, Nelly: your aunt is a presumptuous, meddling, overbearing, impertinent woman that she is." "Why don't you tell her to leave us alone, papa?" But the General, whose courage had never been doubted during all the years of his strenuous life, had very little bravery when it came to a question of telling hard truths to a woman, and that woman the Dowager.
'It's all up now, I says. 'That comes of meddling with the Craft without warrant! Dravot never winked an eye, not when ten priests took and tilted over the Grand Master's chair which was to say, the stone of Imbra.
Yet we leave all this great explosive force in unimpeded operation, at any moment it may be set in action, in any one of those "pretty family scenes" which "Puck" depicts, while we are solemnly warned against admitting the comparatively mild peril of a political difference! It is like cautioning a manufacturer of dynamite against the danger of meddling with mere edge-tools.
There was nothing better to be expected of a girl with your parentage and bringing up, and a Puseyite into the bargain. But I warn you you'll go meddling here once too often before you've done. If you'll take my advice you'll let other people's business alone, and mind your own. Them that have got Adrian Lomax on their hands needn't go poaching on their neighbours for something to do.
But these railroad gentlemen say they have no intention to increase their rates of commutation, and they deprecate what they term 'premature legislation, and an uncalled-for meddling with their affairs. Mr.
I hope this will be a lesson to you not to come meddling in other people's affairs." Dane turned to the man who had brought this bombshell into their midst. "Do you swear that you are Douglas Romilly?" he asked. "I not only swear it but I can prove it, if you'll come along with me to Murray's," he answered. "My partner's there, waiting supper, and another man who has known me all his life."
'A propos', have you yet found out at Paris, any friendly and hospitable Madame de Lursay, 'qui veut bien se charger du soin de vous eduquer'? And have you had any occasion of representing to her, 'qu'elle faisoit donc des noeuds'? But I ask your pardon, Sir, for the abruptness of the question, and acknowledge that I am meddling with matters that are out of my department.
But though no other nation has ever had any written whaling law, yet the American fishermen have been their own legislators and lawyers in this matter. They have provided a system which for terse comprehensiveness surpasses Justinian's Pandects and the By-laws of the Chinese Society for the Suppression of Meddling with other People's Business.
Won't she look sweet in it?, I was so confounded that I couldn't say a word. Indeed, I could hardly look her in the face. At first I thought of calling her attention to the dishonesty of the act; but then I reflected that, as it was none of my business, I might get her ill-will for meddling in what didn't concern me."
Its convenient geographic sprawl part Europe, part Asia allows it to pose as both a continental power and a global one with interests akin to those of the United States. Hence the verve with which it delved into the war against terrorism, recasting internal oppression and meddling abroad as its elements.
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