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I have been planning something to-day, Agnes, for all hands," looking round at the children, as she spoke. "What?" asked her sister, brightening. "I can't tell you until we are alone. But it will bring the roses to somebody's cheeks, and be very nice for all the somebodies."
It is as follows: that, at the hour of the night the state of the weather being also I, an infant of a certain age was suspended by somebody or somebodies at the knocker of the Foundling Hospital.
"A few sticks of dynamite in a plugged gas-pipe: cut your fuse long enough, light it, and throw the thing under the car. That would settle it." Adair yawned sleepily. "Well, they've got all night for the inventive part of it. There's no rescue for us unless somebody a good husky army of somebodies just happens along." "The army is less than eight miles away over at Frisbie's camp," said Ford.
We were suggesting to a military young gentleman only the other day, after he had related to us several dazzling instances of the profusion of half-a-dozen honourable ensign somebodies or nobodies in the articles of kid gloves and polished boots, that possibly ‘cracked’ regiments would be an improvement upon ‘crack,’ as being a more expressive and appropriate designation, when he suddenly interrupted us by pulling out his watch, and observing that he must hurry off to the Park in a cab, or he would be too late to hear the band play.
She launched into a list of all the great nobodies and small somebodies who were to be there, and whom she positively must see: it might be her only chance. Those last words quenched a sarcasm on Augustus' lips. He was kinder than usual the rest of the evening, and read her to sleep with the Pilgrim's Progress. Phosy sat in a corner, listened, and understood.
This, that, or the other aggregate of men should do something. And the individual calmly and comfortably slips his neck out of the collar and leaves it on the shoulders of these abstractions. As I have said, there are plenty of things that need to be done by these somebodies. If you want to do people good you can; but you must pay the price for it. That price is personal sacrifice and effort.
I think women have rights which they do not at present enjoy, but I have very little confidence in the motives of their petticoated champions, who court mobs, delight in notoriety, and glory in their opportunity to burst away from private life, and be recognized by the public as "somebodies."
These ruffles showed, as she said, that her ancestors had been Somebodies, when the grandfathers of the rich folk, who now looked down upon her, had been Nobodies, if, indeed, they had any grandfathers at all.
All this having been effected by the said peal on the bell, the said somebody or somebodies did incontinently take to their heels, and disappear long before the old porter could pull his legs through his nether garments and obey the rude summons.
Whilst this was being done two coffins were found, and in them there were discovered two headless bodies. Local historians think they were the remains of "two rebel chieftains;" they may have been; but there is no proof of this, although the fair supposition is that they were the decapitated remnants of two somebodies, who had assumed a rebellious attitude in 1715.
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