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Everybody's friend is far too apt to be nobody's, for it is impossible to rely on the support of a person whose devotion is liable to be called upon a hundred times a day, from a hundred different quarters.
"But it was you who said that was enough to start out on," retorted Katherine. "And you wanted the balsam boughs the worst, so it's your fault." "Don't let's quarrel about who's fault it was," said the Captain. "None of us were obliged to come; we came because we wanted to. It's everybody's fault, and what is everybody's is nobody's. We're here now and we'll have to make the best of it."
Carroll came to the meeting without hesitation, and with him, Crawley. "We will take you in a few minutes," said Sinclair to Crawley. "Now," he continued to Carroll, when Crawley had been removed, "we would like to know where you were last week." "That's nobody's blank business," said Carroll. An angry murmur arose from the crowd.
'I didn't count on nobody's takin' us to be anybody else when I brung 'em, but I didn't want 'em lost, case of fire or anything.
She held out her hand. "How do you do? Where is Mary this afternoon? Sit down and stop staring at me like that. I'm no Chinese idol. If I choose to put on a mandarin coat and sit on my front porch, whose business is it but mine!" "Nobody's, madam!" John Maxwell bent over and shook Miss Gibbie's hand vigorously. "You are indeed no Chinese idol.
The strengtheners and the lowerers were all "clever" men in somebody's opinion, which is really as much as can be said for any living talents. Nobody's imagination had gone so far as to conjecture that Mr. Lydgate could know as much as Dr. Sprague and Dr. Minchin, the two physicians, who alone could offer any hope when danger was extreme, and when the smallest hope was worth a guinea.
Do not mistake me, and think that I mean to recommend to you abject and criminal flattery: no; flatter nobody's vices or crimes: on the contrary, abhor and discourage them. But there is no living in the world without a complaisant indulgence for people's weaknesses, and innocent, though ridiculous vanities.
"All for the best, you know all for the best, we're all of us sure of that. Love doesn't last doesn't last doesn't last as good fish in the sea as ever were caught out of it nobody's heart could break at twenty-five. You think you're happy and proud you think you're lovers and friends but that doesn't last, doesn't last, doesn't last none of it lasts at all."
"Oh, but do buy it, daddy! Perhaps it's not had enough to eat, like that kitten I found in the ditch. And perhaps it'll get fat, like her; and mamma said we wanted an old horse to go in the cart for luggage, and I'm sure that one's very old. And that's such a horrid man, like hump-backed Richard. And when nobody's looking, he tugs it, and beats it.
"Aren't you going to let me thank you?" "You needn't. I was only helping Mrs. Downey." "Oh " "She's been having a grand turn-out while you were away." "The deuce she has " "Oh you needn't be frightened. Nobody's touched your precious books but me. I wouldn't let them." "Why wouldn't you let them?" "Be-cause Oh, I say, it's six o'clock; are you going to stay?" "Perhaps. Why?"
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