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And when he had thought as far as the Savoy he spoke: "A gentleman," said he, "is a fellow who goes to a university, but doesn't have to learn anything; who goes out into the world, but doesn't have to work at anything; and who has never been blackballed at any of the clubs. I've done a good many things in my time, but I've never had to work." "That is a great pity!" sighed Barnabas.
How he had stood things! How he had borne, in that odd, unimpressive way, insolence and arrogance for which she ought to have been beaten and blackballed by decent society! She could scarcely bear it. "Oh! to think it should have been you," she wept, "just you who understood!" "Well," he answered speculatively, "I mightn't have understood as well if it hadn't been for Ann. By jings!
McBane was good enough to win money from, or even to lose money to, but not good enough to be recognized as a social equal. He would instinctively have blackballed McBane had he been proposed by some one else; with what grace could he put himself forward as the sponsor for this impossible social aspirant?
There is good and there is bad in all of us, closely intertwined, knit together into the very warp and woof of our lives. We're all good and we're all bad." It was with James a purely personal equation. He could not forget its relation to himself. "My name is to be voted on at the University Club next month. I'll be blackballed to a dead certainty," he said miserably.
His candidacy had been posted. Under these conditions he did not dare advise him to withdraw; it would be taking too great a responsibility. If he were blackballed it would be very disagreeable. He finished by praying her to write and to return soon. Having read this letter, she tore it up gently, threw it in the fire, and calmly watched it burn. Doubtless, he was right.
Now, as Augustus has both fought and gamed, dined and danced, I suppose it was the morality which posed him, or perhaps the marriage. 'They say there is something about Lady Flutter, but, I should think, all talk. Most probably a report set about by her Ladyship. Lord Flame has been blackballed, that is certain.
A few months after you discharged him, partly because his health failed and partly because you blackballed him at all other shops, he was still out of work, his money all gone, his pantry bare, and his youngest boy dying of a slow disease of the spine. Some of us went to you and asked you to help us raise enough to send him to Montreal for treatment that might save his life.
It means I wasn't blackballed at the first meeting, I suppose. After I've become a regular member, and there is nothing missed from the lodgerooms, I'll be allowed to proceed in the ordinary manner." She blushed delightfully again. "Since you are so ignorant of our ways you should inquire at your earliest convenience. I would advise you, perhaps, to learn Spanish." "Will you teach me?
This astonishes me, because ministers are not usually chosen among fashionable people." Then he related hunting tales to her. He had brought for her three fox-skins, one of which was very beautiful; the skin of a brave animal which he had pulled by the tail, and which had bitten his hand. In Paris he was worried. His cousin had been presented at the club. He feared he might be blackballed.
This astonishes me, because ministers are not usually chosen among fashionable people." Then he related hunting tales to her. He had brought for her three fox- skins, one of which was very beautiful; the skin of a brave animal which he had pulled by the tail, and which had bitten his hand. In Paris he was worried. His cousin had been presented at the club. He feared he might be blackballed.
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