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He shall have 'em, bless him! He shall know what crops Horace grew on his little farm, and all the other rot which gains Perry Exhibitions. Hodgson may strong coffee and wet towel per noctem; but, with John Acton as coach, Raven shall upset the apple-cart of Theodore Hodgson. There's Todd in for the Perry, too, I hear.
Huskinson, the mayor in 1884, was aged thirty-four and six months. I've looked it all up this afternoon." "How lovely if you could be the youngest mayor!" "Yes. I'll tell you how I feel. I feel as though I didn't want to be mayor at all if I can't be the youngest mayor... you know." She knew. "Oh!" she cried, "do upset Mr Barlow's apple-cart. He's a horrid old thing.
If so, it might be possible to guide, even to control such a ward, for the specified three years, at any rate, without exciting unseemly and ridiculous strife between her and her guardian. "I ought to be able to do it" he thought "without upsetting the apple-cart!" For, as he examined himself he realised that he held no closed mind on the subject of the rights or powers or grievances of women.
But there, a head like yours 'd never guess why she went to a Registry Office, an' there weren't no banns at all. That overcame me. I seed the wisdom o' Providence from that hour. I be a converted man. An' I'm damned if I'll let you come along an' upset the apple-cart after all these years. Can 'ee write?" "Tolerable, though I'm no hand at spellin'." "Very well. We'll have a drink together at St.
The answer to that question could be seen any day near the place they call the Old Gate, where beggars sit in rags. "Shall I offer him money?" whispered Tess. "For God's sake, no, lady! The man's a decent soldier. He'd refuse it and we'd all be in the apple-cart! Leave him to me." He turned again on the Rajput. "You know who I am, don't you?
"These gray November days with their depressing atmosphere of finality may be held responsible for anything." "Even my own pet extremity the upsetting of an apple-cart. Really, I'm getting dangerously close to it. Let's go out for a walk." Now, why did Tito Cecco, dealer in small fruits, choose this precise day and hour to halt his barrow at our corner?
Now when it appeared that heathens, believed to be black, were at the least inflicting heavy loss on Holy Russia, they felt as though the universe were falling. I noted in my diary: "Out here one feels very keenly the tituppy state of politics. Anything likely to upset the apple-cart should be avoided."
He did not fill in the picture but I did for him with the charmingly domesticated wife well connected: the typical "nice English Girl," heiress of a comfortable fortune to supplement his own, which he candidly admitted needs supplementing. Of course he's not a mere vulgar fortune-hunter. He must be genuinely in love with the nice English Girl. And that's where I upset HIS apple-cart.
Why, there was a woman here once that never asked for a vote in her life, and yet capsized an Election for Parliament candidates, voters, and the whole apple-cart as easy as you might turn over a plate. Did you ever hear tell of Kitty Lebow and her eight tall daughters? No; I daresay not. The world's old and losing its memory when it begins to talk of Woman Suffrage.
"I want to see Jim's honest grin again as much as you do, but we must tell him before Thorpe When I upset an apple-cart, I like to see the apple rolling about, don't you?" "We'll tell 'em after dinner to-night." That afternoon we forgathered in the Fair Grounds. The racing was uninteresting, and presently Angela suggested that we should go up in the captive balloon.
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