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He pointed to one of them and said, "Repeat your duty towards your neighbour." "My duty towards my neighbour," said the boy, "is to be quite sure that he is not likely to borrow money of me before I let him speak to me at all, and then to have as little to do with him as " At this point there was a loud ring at the door bell. "Hanky and Panky come to see me, no doubt," said Mr. Turvey.
At last he burst forth, 'Subordination is sadly broken down in this age. No man, now, has the same authority which his father had, except a gaoler. BOSWELL. 'That is to say, things have been turned topsy turvey. But your serious cause. JOHNSON. 'Why, Sir, there are many causes, the chief of which is, I think, the great increase of money.
Now supposen a neat housekeeper shouldn't hev nothin fur to say, tu a parcel of careless heedless boys and gals, cause she must say the same old thing over every day. Hezekiah clean yer feet. Matilda, hang up yer shawl. Susan Maria put away yer gloves, what kind of a house du ye think that air would be, all topsy turvey and kivered with dirt?
Fraser's? probably not, else he would not have spoken in that way about the pope's nephews. Daniel fancied, as older people do, that every one else's consciousness was as active as his own on a matter which was vital to him. Did Turvey the valet know? and old Mrs. French the housekeeper? and Banks the bailiff, with whom he had ridden about the farms on his pony?
He called up a class of about twenty boys. "Now, my boys," he said, "Why is it so necessary to avoid extremes of truthfulness?" "It is not necessary, sir," said one youngster, "and the man who says that it is so is a scoundrel." "Come here, my boy, and hold out your hand." When he had done so, Mr. Turvey gave him two sharp cuts with a cane.
He never varied the form of the words he used, which were to the effect that a man must serve either God or Mammon, but that he could not serve both." "Ah!" said Mr. Turvey, "that no doubt was his exoteric teaching, but Professors Hanky and Panky have assured me most solemnly that his esoteric teaching was as I have given it.
"I do hope it is so. You must stay and see them." "My dear sir," said my father, putting his handkerchief up to his face, "I am taken suddenly unwell and must positively leave you." He said this in so peremptory a tone that Mr. Turvey had to yield.
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