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He saw his son lapsed to atheism, to the ESPRIT, to the pleasant frivolity of clever Frenchmen he saw in the background the great bloodsucker, the spider skepticism; he suspected the incurable wretchedness of a heart no longer hard enough either for evil or good, and of a broken will that no longer commands, is no longer ABLE to command.
That was what that corker of a vicar of yours, Boom Bagshaw, told me I was when I wept with joy while he was showing me round. Yes, and now I'm a patron of the Garden Home Trust or a governor or a vice-priest or something. I am really. What is it I am, Nona?" "You're a bloated aristocrat and a bloodsucker," Nona told him in her clear, fine voice.
His nerve centres of judgment and will have not been employed in solving the problems of life, but in maintaining his own solvency by the insolvency of others. He trades upon sorrow and draws a livelihood from misfortune. He transmutes tears into treasure, and from nakedness and hunger garbs himself in clean linen and develops the round of his belly. He is a bloodsucker and a vampire.
I just can't stand it!" "'S-s-s-s-h! Easy, just like that he gimme it, darlin'." "And me lying here hatin' him for a skinflint and his store for a bloodsucker and the Aid Society for a fake!" "Yes, yes, darlin'." "I feel new already, Vi. I can feel the sun already shining through me. If he was here, I I could just kiss his hand; that's how it feels for a fellow to get his nerve back.
"To pay off a mortgage to my grandfather, yes," he answered soberly, quite conscious of what he was doing and of its recklessness and, perhaps, idiocy. "And to beat Blenham." She jumped up and ran around the table to put her two hands on his shoulders and shake him. "You're a God-blessed brick, Steve Packard!" she cried ringingly. "But I'm not a bloodsucker, either.
Finally, you stood on one leg and jounced the water from your ear, or pulled a bloodsucker from your toes before he sapped your life for this tiny creature of the rocks was credited with the gift of prodigious inflation, and might inhale you, blood, sinews, suspenders and all, if left to his ugly purpose.
If theres a bloodsucker in this 'ere county, its that very chap. Ay! I know him! and if he hasnt got all the same as dead wood in his headworks, he knows summat of me. Wheres the mighty harm, squire, that you take it so much to heart?
Pelle stood still in the middle of the street. Damn it all, this wouldn't do! He must take care that he didn't make a hash of the whole affair. If these foreign workers and machines were introduced, a whole host of men would in a moment be deprived of their living. But he wanted to have a go at Meyer; there must be some means of giving the bloodsucker a blow that he would feel in his purse!
"I'm feeling low to-night," said Father Payne in answer to a question about his prolonged silence. "I'm not myself: virtue has gone out of me I'm in the clutches of a bloodsucker." "Old debts with compound interest?" said Rose cheerfully. "Yes," said Father Payne with a frown; "old emotional I.O.U.'s. I didn't know what I was putting my name to." "A man or a woman?" said Rose.
"But, sir if I give you a black eye " "How will say, ten dollars do?" "Ten dollars! For blacking your eye, sir?" "Lumme, Joe!" cried the Old Un, "get back into the ring and black 'em both " "Shut up!" said Joe, scowling down into the Old Un's eager face, "you 'eartless old bloodsucker, you!" "Bloodsucker!" screamed the old man, "w'ot, me?
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