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"Look out for a little door with a portico-drive on about twenty yards beyond and then stop close to the wall," answered a squeaking voice, impatiently, and with an Italian accent. "Here is a beggarly Dutchman, that will make me as savage as a bear?" muttered the angry Jehu to himself. Then he added: "Thousand thunders! I tell you that I can't see. How the devil can I find out your little door?"
A newsboy's strident voice was heard here and there calling an extra, mingled with the sound of homing feet and street-cars Cowperwood's street-cars. "I'll tell you what it is," said Schryhart, finally. "It seems to me we have stood just about enough of this man's beggarly interference. I'll admit that neither Hull nor Stackpole had any right to go to him.
Then he asked, in a cool voice: "Do you think it time, Babache, to beat the chamade?" I remained silent. Gaston Cheverny scowled at me; he was at the age when prudence seems but a beggarly virtue at best. Only Beauvais winked at me approvingly, and Count Saxe saw him in a mirror opposite.
In this manner we are to understand such passages, otherwise they would directly contradict the entire Gospel, and our beggarly works would be put in the place of Christ, who alone is to be the propitiation, which no man is by any means to despise. But works become conspicuous among men.
Then a fifth of the latter amount was said to have been Duthil's share, and Chaigneux had contented himself with the beggarly sum of 3,000 francs the lowest price paid for any one vote, the cost of each of the others ranging from 5 to 20,000. It must be said that there was no anger in Monferrand's emotion.
In France, the haunch buttons and pocketholes are within half a foot of the coat's extremity: their hats look as if they had been pared round the brims, and the crown is covered with a kind of cordage, which, in my opinion, produces a very beggarly effect. In every other circumstance of dress, male and female, the contrast between the two nations, appears equally glaring.
Not a doubt entered my mind that all the angels were grouped together, discussing this boy's case and observing the awful bombardment of our beggarly little village with satisfaction and approval.
What man but a philosopher would not be ashamed to see his furniture packed in a cart and going up country exposed to the light of heaven and the eyes of men, a beggarly account of empty boxes? That is Spaulding's furniture. I could never tell from inspecting such a load whether it belonged to a so-called rich man or a poor one; the owner always seemed poverty-stricken.
"There was a sort of cocky unconcern about the creature that gave his miserable state a kind of beggarly distinction. He was in among the very dregs of life, and he was not depressed about it. "'But if I had a sawbuck, he continued, 'I could bulge your eye.... Couldn't point the way to one? "He arrested my answer with the little flourish of his fingers holding the stump of the cigarette.
'Confound your familiarity! cried the irritable officer, rising. 'Am I always to be told that I married your sister? Address me, sir, as becomes your duty. Evan heard the words 'beggarly tailor' mumbled 'out of the gutters, and 'cursed connection. He stood in the attitude of attention, while the Major continued: 'Now, young man, listen to these facts.
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