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I knew what was in his mind: a foreigner, a spy perchance, was going about the country, taking notes of fortified places. It was true that this fortress, nearly hidden by vegetation, was no longer in a state to withstand a long siege, but who could tell what importance it might have in the eyes of a foreign Power traditionally credited with a large appetite for other people's property?
"Norwood told me she was losing a lot, and I ran across from the Sporting Club," Dick went on. "No good, I suppose, as you say. One can't keep whispering a stream of good advice down the back of people's necks. Only a very special kind of an ass tries that twice: but still, I did hope " "Yes, there's that 'but still' feeling, isn't there?" Hannaford smiled his tired smile, that never brightened.
It is dreadful to think that other people's grandchildren may one day rise up and call one amiable. There are moments when one sympathises with Herod. "A most variable climate," said the Duchess; "and how unfortunate that we should have had that very cold weather at a time when coal was so dear! So distressing for the poor."
From the lowest to the highest, every producer is exploited by the unproductive. Man himself, whose exceptional rank ought to raise him above such baseness, excels in this ravening lust. He says to himself that business means getting hold of other people's cash, even as the Gnat says to herself that business means getting hold of the Halictus' honey.
As people changed from place to place, and sat wherever they liked, I overheard many different people's opinions of the drama. The suicide monologue affected these fresh and alert minds very powerfully. That evening, moreover, I had occasion to observe human cowardice, which is never accounted so great as it really is.
One time there used to be a field there in which they used to play every evening with other people's children. Then a man from Belfast bought the field and built houses in it not like their little brown houses but bright brick houses with shining roofs.
"I should think it was unusual! Tearing people's money up, and making a rude, awkward fuss that everybody had to smooth over as hard as they could! Why, even Mr. Rodgers says that sort of thing isn't done, and you're always saying he knows." "No," said Hortense. "It isn't done." "Well, I've never seen anything approaching such behavior in our set. And he was ready to go further.
General Bonaparte had refused to go to Vendee, because he wished not to fight against his own countrymen, and could not take part in a civil war; but now, at this hour of extreme peril, he placed himself in opposition to the people's sovereignty, and assumed command over the troops of the Convention, whose mission it was to subdue the people.
Spenser hastened to repair this important omission. "Ten dollars," replied the cabman as if ten dollars were some such trifle as ten cents. Spenser laughed at the first experience of the famous New York habit of talking in a faint careless way of large sums of money other people's money. "You did save us a swat," he said to Susan, and beckoned another man.
How I do hate people who can only express their feelings by hurting other people's hands! "Midwinter was as pleased with my proposal as Armadale; but he saw difficulties in the way of carrying it out. He considered the yacht too small for a cruise to the Mediterranean, and he thought it desirable to hire a larger vessel. His friend thought otherwise. I left them arguing the question.
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