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Down in my country, Mrs Dombey's father and his brother were the gayest gentlemen and the best-liked that came a visiting from London they have long been dead, though! Lord, Lord, this long while! The brother, who was my Ally's father, longest of the two.
And he had considered himself, proudly considered himself, the son of one of the best-liked, best-known and most upright cattle raisers of the Rolling River country. Now who was he? "Come on, Len," said Whitey. "If you've got the strays we'll drive them back. Been out long enough as 'tis." He wheeled his horse, Len doing the same, and they started after the straying cattle.
Anstey was one of the best-liked men in his class, but the new plebes at first held almost aloof from Dodge. "Whatever you do," urged Anstey, "don't make the mistake of trying to cultivate the acquaintance of any of the upper class men." "I've encountered two already," muttered Bert. "Oh!" and Anstey smiled wonderingly.
And it is in the nature of man when he has once accorded that favor to a fellow-creature, to "take him as he is," that he ends by liking him. Thus Bismarck, of all living men the most unlikely to succeed in the race after a world-wide popularity, is probably at this moment the best-liked man in either hemisphere.
There were ominous faces among them, and mutterings of hatred and revenge; for Burns had been popular the best-liked man among them all. Jones, wrought to the highest pitch, had even shed a few shamefaced tears, and was obliterating the humiliating memory by an extra brusqueness of manner. We carried the injured man aft, and with such implements as I had I cleaned and dressed the wound.
Now, at all events, in the days of the Long Parliament and the Civil War, there was still some respectful recollection of the old Earl of Marlborough as one of the best-liked ministers of James's reign and of the first years of Charles's.
Of these Herbert Horning, possibly the best-liked man in the club, who supported a large family off the funny department of a magazine, was one. He had spurned the suggestion when it was first made to him, and had reluctantly foregone his election; whereon Peter Maginnis had taken him aside, a dash of red in his ordinarily composed eye. "How much?" he demanded brutally. "How much for what?"
"Why, it's Ferd Stowing," said Billie, getting to her feet for a better view. "My, but he looks happy about something. I wonder what's up." The next moment Ferd Stowing, one of the best-liked boys in the town, came rushing up the steps like a whirlwind, and it did not take the girls long to find out "what was up." "Hooray!" he cried, flinging his hat high in the air. "Wuxtry!
I'll need to know at once " "Best get a look at them beasties fust," said Joe, in a harsh tone, and with an unmistakable laugh. "Yep," sniggered Dutchy, with an insolent look into Jim's face. The studied insult of both the men was so apparent that all eyes were turned curiously upon the foreman. For Jim Thorpe was popular. More than popular. He was probably the best-liked man on the range.
Therefore, while it had been pleasant to be one of the best-liked fellows in the Institute, captain of its football team, and a leading figure in the festivities of the day just ended, now that it was all over our lad was regretting that he had not made a still better use of his opportunities.
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