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He told her. "Just a draftsman? That isn't a very high position, is it?" "Not very." "How much does it pay?" He told her and saw her face fall. "Why, that's only a little more than you have been making." "At least, it's steady and sure." "But even Maizie makes that much. I used to get ninety from the library. I thought men clever men " "Beggars," he said, "even clever beggars, can't be choosers."
'Your companion, I think, will do, but you 'I, Madame, am like the lilies of the field that neither toil nor spin, replied Vandeloup, gaily; 'but, unfortunately, I am now compelled by necessity to work, and though I should prefer to earn my bread in an easier manner, beggars, with a characteristic shrug, which did not escape Madame's eye cannot be choosers.
'But however, he may live for me I don't wish to kill him; only, it must be owned that a ready-made family is a drawback. 'There is only one after all, pleaded Charlotte. 'And that a very little one, as the maid-servant said, rejoined Bertie. 'Beggars mustn't be choosers, Bertie; you can't have everything.
Now, i' God's name, let's have your tale. What's the rogue to you?" "Oh, sir, a great joy. Why, he gave me the only knight-errant ever I had. A vile muddy one, to be sure, but poor maids must not be choosers. We were driving home, Mrs. Weston and I, and by Black Horse Spinney we were stopped by two highwaymen.
"If you had the £50,000, Captain De Baron," she said, "I think you would manage to do without the beauty and the devoted affection." "That's ill-natured, Miss Mildmay, though it may be true. Beggars can't be choosers. But you've known me a long time, and I think it's unkind that you should run me down with a new acquaintance. Suppose I was to say something bad of you."
Mildred had not thought so, but in her mother's guilty tone and guiltier eyes she now read that her mother wished her to go. "It'd be awful for me to be left here alone with him," wailed her mother insincerely. "Of course we've got no money, and beggars can't be choosers. But it'd just about kill me to have you go." Mildred could not speak. "I don't know a thing about money," Mrs.
Campbell to give you such an old dud of a thing, and I know mother thinks so too, for she laughed hard for her, when I described it, though she said nothing except that 'beggars shouldn't be choosers. I wonder what that means. Do you know?"
"I never thought of that," murmured Jeff. "The Wayside Club has no instructor," cried Rip, grasping at a straw. "But no one thinks of going to Wayside," protested Toots. "They are perfectly dreadful." "Still they could be taught how to play golf," said Rip. "In any event, beggars can't be choosers. We both want to stay in W ." "Well, there's only one way out of it," said Beppy quickly.
It was confidently whispered throughout this pastoral country that August Persons, living in exile in England and elsewhere, were in familiar and confidential correspondence with the Marquis de Gemosac, and, in a minor degree, with Albert de Chantonnay. For kings, and especially deposed kings, may not be choosers, but must take the instrument that comes to hand.
Briareus, armed to the teeth, would not affright our modern dowagers, or deter them from their prey. Wherever the carcass of a fair fame lies, thither they flock, screaming shrilly in triumph, vulture-eyed, sharp-taloned the choosers of the slain. I pity from my heart the frailest, the most utterly fallen of her sex, when once the social Nemesis hands her over to the chorus of the Eumenides.
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