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So far, however, it was rather respect for the personal ability of Henry VII. than a high estimate of the English nation that had secured the English position; and when the astute old monarch was succeeded on the throne by a frank, high-spirited lad of eighteen, the Princes of Europe flattered themselves that England would revert to the position of a cat's-paw.
And Laura was peculiarly helpless under such circumstances: if it was done with tact, and with a certain assumed warmth of manner, anyone could make a cat's-paw of her.
Cavour's words, soon after Villafranca, "It is England's turn now," were not belied. With Lord John at the Foreign Office, England rose to the occasion. Napoleon III. wished to make a cat's-paw of this country, and was sanguine enough to believe that Her Majesty's Government would take the proposed Italian Confederation under its wing. Lord Palmerston, Mr.
"And at least young Mr Breen is not a miserable apology for a man. He is as much a real man as anybody else goes out shooting plays tennis " Again Francie's cat's-paw pounced on her. "How do you know?" "Why why you can see he is one of that sort," squirmed poor Rose. "Oh!" said Frances significantly, with a firm stare at her sister's scarlet face.
Just then, however, I caught sight of a light cat's-paw skimming over the water in the distance, and Peter, springing at the same moment into the rigging and pointing westward, exclaimed, "Here it comes, father, no mistake about it now." I followed him up the rigging, and saw in the far west a wide-extending dark blue line moving quickly on towards us.
You drove a young woman out here from Haskell night afore last, for Bill Lacy. Ain't abduction no crime? An' that's only one count. I've had an eye on you for more'n six months, an' Lacy's been makin' a damn cat's-paw out of you all that time. Well, Lacy is playin' his last hand right now, an' I've got the cards."
"No, sir," I answered; "it is little more than a cat's-paw at present, but it has the appearance of being fairly steady." "How long do you think it will be before it reaches us?" asked the second luff. "Probably half an hour, at the least, sir," I answered. I noticed Mr Fawcett say something to the skipper; and then they both looked up at the sails.
Yes; there it came, far away in the offing, ruling the horizon as a band of dark blue that grew lighter and lighter still along its landward edge, until it stopped short at a distance of about two miles from the shore, blowing fresh right up to a certain well-defined point, between which and the land all was gleaming, glassy swell, unruffled by even so much as a cat's-paw.
You can see away off: far-rms, lakes, all the other mountains Mount Greylock, too, in the distance! But but it's a cat's-foot climb down there!" breaking off breathlessly, as if feeling were making a cat's-paw of him. "Oh! you can really see Mount Greylock! As far away as that! Well! I'm going to try-y it, too," ventured one of his girlish companions whose age was fourteen.
The breeze, after faintly ruffling the glassy surface of the water with an occasional cat's-paw, came softly stealing out from the E.S.E., and every sail was immediately trimmed with the most scrupulous nicety to woo the gentle zephyr.
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