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To a great many it was known that Dean Arabin had paid money for him, very much contrary to his own consent, and that he had quarrelled, or attempted to quarrel, with the dean in consequence, had so attempted, although the money had in part passed through his own hands. There had been one creditor, Fletcher, the butcher of Silverbridge, who had of late been specially hard upon poor Crawley.
"Here, Charlie," called Morley Scott, seeing there was likely to be a quarrel, "I want you to run on an errand for me." Charlie looked round, and seeing his father, he jumped up readily. To tell the truth, he was not sorry of the excuse to give up his fishing; he had been thoroughly tired of it for the last quarter of an hour, although he did not like to own it to the other boys.
'Keep quite quiet, gentlemen, and don't quarrel, and come up to me when I send to say the tea is ready. And with this she makes a sweet little curtsey, and disappears. "'Hang it, Jack, pass the bottle, and don't wake the old gentleman! continues Mr. Will. 'Won't you help yourself, cousin? he continues; being particularly facetious in the tone of that word cousin.
They drank together. Vail tried to get Turner to bed, and failed. He believed that Burns had called the captain. The captain had ordered him to the deck, and there had been a furious quarrel. He felt ill by that time, and, when he went on watch at midnight, Burns was uncertain about leaving him. He was not intoxicated, he maintained, until after half-past one.
One afternoon John ran into the room. "My dear Mrs. Moodie, what is Mrs. 's dog like?" "A large bull-dog, brindled black and white." "There, by Jove, I've shot him!" "John, John! you mean me to quarrel in earnest with my friend. How could you do it?" "Why, how the deuce should I know her dog from another?
But my age is like a lusty winter, as old Will says, frosty but kindly; and what if, old as we are, we live to see better days yet! I promise thee, Joceline, I love this jarring betwixt the rogues of the board and the rogues of the sword. When thieves quarrel, true men have a chance of coming by their own."
Herodotus, who has been called the Father of History, opens his work with a few introductory words stating that 'these are the researches which he publishes in the hope of thereby preventing the great and wonderful actions of the Greeks and Barbarians from losing their due meed of glory, and withal to put on record what were their grounds of feud'. And then he plunges straight into his story, as follows: 'According to the Persians best informed in history, the Phoenicians began the quarrel.
The Lauderdale negroes, for instance never see one that he isn't laughing! And Tullius at Three Oaks, he'd say he couldn't possibly think of going must stay at Three Oaks and look after Miss Margaret and the children! No, it isn't an easy subject, look at it any way you will. But as between us and the North, it ain't the main subject of quarrel not by a long shot it ain't!
In another way also there had been a close alliance between them, and one not always of a very pleasant description. The doctor was, and long had been, Sir Roger's medical attendant, and, in his unceasing attempts to rescue the drunkard from the fate which was so much to be dreaded, he not unfrequently was driven into a quarrel with his patient. One thing further must be told of Sir Roger.
This is the reason why all those things were done, why the quarrel over the admission of Japanese children to the public schools of San Francisco was cooked up, why so much national anger was exhibited, why the Japanese press took up the quarrel like a hungry dog pouncing upon a bone, why so much noise was made about it at public meetings that one would have thought the fate of Japan hung on the result.
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