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"He is a negro who has been brutally ill-treated and has run away from his master, and I would willingly give five hundred dollars to get him safely away." "This is a very serious business in which you are meddling, young sir," the sailor said. "Putting aside the consequences to yourself, you are asking me to break the law and to run the risk of the confiscation of my ship.
He could have disposed of his money to any one of a dozen of these mid-Victorian charities, but no he was just one of those old parties that want to shift their responsibilities on to young shoulders, and so he chose mine." "You don't speak very kindly of your dear dead relative." "I don't feel very kindly toward him. He was a meddling old creature.
Caldwell to look other people's troubles directly in the face. It is bad enough to dwell among their own pains and annoyances, and they shrink from meddling with another's griefs. But, in the present case, Mrs. Caldwell, moved by a sense of duty and a feeling of interest in Mrs.
When asked if he were sure of his ground in making so serious an accusation, he declared he had proof positive, at least he would have the instant they reached Manila, and his intention was to take the boy along with him to be tried there by court-martial, where "no meddling outsiders," as he said, could buy off witnesses.
At any price I was resolved to get rid of this man. "Allow me," said the Creole, who had been a silent witness of all that had passed, but who now attempted to take the paper from my hand. "Pardon me, sir," said I, vexed at the man's meddling; "on this occasion I wish to be my own counsellor and master."
Unfortunately for the spectators, the curate came along and pacified them. "Señoras! señoras! What a shame. Señor alferez." "What are you meddling in these matters for, you hypocrite, you Carlist?" "Don Tiburcio, take away your wife! Señora, hold your tongue!" "Tell that to those robbers of the poor!" Finally, the dictionary of epithets was exhausted.
The central administration being a far-flung network of officialdom, there was hardly any room for local government apart from it. We find it only in the village elder and those associated with him, who took up what government was necessary where the jurisdiction of the unit of the central administration the district magistracy ceased, or at least did not concern itself in meddling much.
A hen, being of the feminine gender, underestimates the majesty of order and system; she resents any approach to the unimaginative monotony of the machine. Probably the Confederated Fowl Union has been meddling with our little paradise where Labour and Capital have dwelt in heavenly unity until now.
"Now, I'll settle with you and your bunch of meddling tenderfeet," announced Cravath sternly. "Right about face!" They hesitated, then turned in obedience to his command. There seemed nothing else for them to do, for both men were fingering their weapons suggestively. "These boys have done nothing to harm you, Cravath," protested Mr. Phipps.
As for you, old woman, if I find you meddling any more, with what doesn't concern you, I'll find a way to stop you! Now clear out!" The woman shrank back, mumbling to herself, and hastened down the stairs. "You boys are too fresh!" went on Muchmore. "Why don't you mind your own business?" "Our business is to put out fires!" declared Herbert. "And that's what we're doing here."
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