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Updated: June 15, 2025
A large proportion of the farmers, corn-factors, dairy-keepers, and market-gardeners in the neighborhood of Paris, dream of the glories of the desk for their daughters, and look upon a shopkeeper, a jeweler, or a money-changer as a son-in-law after their own heart, in preference to a notary or an attorney, whose superior social position is a ground of suspicion; they are afraid of being scorned in the future by these citizen bigwigs.
When I see what we've done, sometimes I can't believe it. I only wish some of the bigwigs who've never been out of an office could see it. I know I'll hate to come away. "You'd never believe the time we had leaving out the fighting, which I am coming to by and by. We were beastly short of all sorts of machinery and our labour was awful.
Your father's too great a favourite with the troops for there to be any bother, and the bigwigs know how pleased every one will be that the Dutchman got the worst of it. I say, look; it's only half-past five now!" "What: not later than that!" cried Frank in astonishment, for he would have been less surprised if he had heard that it was midday.
I don't think I could bear a whole day of Bigwigs and eating, with this hanging " "Poor Bigwigs! All right! We'll go. And now, bed; and think of nothing!" Her whisper tickled his ear: "You are a darling to me, Dad!" He went out comforted. And for some time after she had forgotten everything he leaned out of his window, smoking cigarettes, and trying to see the body and soul of night.
Hence, the "public prosecution" satisfied, as the bigwigs of the law still express it in their jargon, the turn came of a thousand private vengeances. Here, as in the Grand Hall, the women rendered themselves particularly prominent. All cherished some rancor against him, some for his malice, others for his ugliness. The latter were the most furious. "Oh! mask of Antichrist!" said one.
Some of the fellows play billiards and cards; but if you will take my advice, you won't go in for that sort of thing. It takes a lot out of one, and fellows that do it are, between you and me, in the bad books of the bigwigs. Besides, they lose money, get into debt, and all sorts of mischief comes of it."
This life doesn't suit you, Toni. It cramps you, worries you. Oh, I heard all about that Badminton Club affair, and everyone knows you don't hit it off with the bigwigs of the neighbourhood." "Who told you that?" For a moment Dowson quailed before her tone; but he rallied bravely. "Oh, what does it matter who told me? It's true, isn't it? Why, you look different, Toni.
Then the virago, with a haughty look, turned towards the people, and addressed them with a penetrating voice: "If they won't speak I will. Friends and comrades, these bigwigs here have sworn our ruin. They want to root out the whole lot of us, why, then, should we have mercy on them? Now, however, it is not we who are in their power, but they who are in ours.
John, whose dislike of the Bigwigs was that of the dogged worker of this life for the dogged talkers, wrinkled his brows: "How's that?" "They make me feel as if I were part of something heavy sitting on something else, and all the time talking about how to make things lighter for the thing it's sitting on."
And so, when his seat was attacked, he still laughed and joked. "They were welcome to it for him," he said; "he could keep it or want it; and of the two, perhaps, the want of it would come most convenient to him. He did not exactly think that he had bribed any one; but if the bigwigs chose to say so, it was all one to him. He was rough and ready, now as ever," &c., &c.
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