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Most beautiful of all seemed Dinard, which we rapidly approached. In twenty minutes we had passed into the little harbour beyond the pier. It was quite a bustling quay, with carriages for hire, and men with barrows touting noisily for custom, treading upon each other's heels in the race for existence; cafés and small hotels in the background.
Then he said calmly: "I am here to do my duty, not to win votes. There are not votes enough in this country to make me do more or less." "Hear him talk," jeered one of the crowd, "and he touting round the saloons to get votes." The crowd jeered and hissed unpleasantly. "Come, Colonel," said Kurfeldt, "we know you're after votes this year, and know too much to drive them away.
They got used to my being a working man and see nothing strange in my carrying paint-pots and glazing windows; on the contrary, they give me orders, and I am considered a good workman and the best contractor, after Radish, who, though he recovered and still paints the cupolas of the church without scaffolding, is not strong enough to manage the men, and I have taken his place and go about the town touting for orders, and take on and sack the men, and lend money at exorbitant interest.
It was the Bald-faced Kid who christened him Little Calamity because, as he explained, Jockey Gillis was a sniffling, whining, half portion of hard luck and a disgrace to the disreputable profession of touting. "Every season," said the Bald-faced Kid, "is a tough season for a guy like that. He carries his hard luck with him.
I'll say for the Whigs, they would not be seen touting for Tories if they were not ghosts of Whigs. You are dead. There is no doubt of it. 'But, Grancey Lespel repeated, 'if there's no doubt about it, how is it I have a doubt about it? 'The Whigs preached finality in Reform. It was their own funeral sermon. 'Nonsensical talk!
In his touting days he had been given the name of the Sharpshooter and in his prosperity it clung to him. "Forget that he's entered, eh?" repeated O'Connor. "Elisha Elisha I don't seem to place that horse." "His name used to be Silver Star," said the Sharpshooter. "That dog?" said O'Connor, disgustedly. "Let's see; wasn't he at Butte last season?" "Yes. Cricket Caley owned him."
Not long, therefore, after the Greenock had entered within Port Philip Heads and got up to Sandridge Pier, the two boys, mixing amongst the crowd of passengers landing, touters touting for various boarding- houses, and all the different sorts of people that throng round the newly-arrived at the colonial metropolis, especially at its harbour mouth, managed easily to get into the town unobserved, giving the slip most successfully to their ship and all its belongings.
This other party was a dramatic critic and I was touting Wilbur's show, but Wilbur didn't know that, so when he saw me sitting there having the time of my young life he lost his nanny and caused a scene, forgetting this other party was a critic in his passion.
The prince, having been persuaded to appeal to Parliament, at once began touting for support and for votes after the fashion of a candidate for a Parliamentary constituency. He sent the Duke of Marlborough to speak to Mr. Henry Fox, a young member of Parliament, and to ask Mr. Fox for his vote. Henry Fox was the younger of two brothers, both of whom were intimate friends of Lord Hervey.
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