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"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 maidservant said," rejoined Bertie. "Beggars mustn't be choosers, Bertie; you can't have everything."
"Ah, my dear!" said her mother, "you will not think so by-and-by. `Beggars mustn't be choosers. You have got nothing but your face for your fortune, you know, although it would have been very different if my poor dear papa had been alive!" "What, my face, ma?" said her dutiful daughter, "I'm sure I hope not!
"My daughter, perversity personified, takes the extraordinary stand that the wretch is right. She agrees with him. She has even gone so far as to say, to my face, that beggars cannot be choosers, although I must give her credit for not using the expression in the scoundrel's presence. 'Pon my soul, Barnes, I have never been so sorely tried in all my life.
You can but try it on; and then if it don't do, why there's the other one to fall back on; only, if I had the choice, I'd rather have young Tudor, too. 'So would I, said Norah; 'I can't abide that other fellow. 'Well, there, that's how it is, you know beggars can't be choosers.
'No, said she; 'the light is bad, and I can remember it well enough, word for word, flourishes and all. We could not be choosers in the circumstances, and she began. 'There are two in it, of course, the man and the woman, and it was on an evening in September that she first got to know him. There had not been such a grand gathering on the Esplanade all the season.
Evidently, as Reg himself had said, beggars could not be choosers, and when presently Mr Richmond left, and the little family talked the matter over late into the afternoon, it was finally decided that the offer of the manager of the Rocket Newspaper Company, Limited, should be accepted, and that the boys should make their new start in life on the Monday morning following.
It was at the best a hopeless venture against Sandusky's first shot, which de Spain knew was almost sure to reach a vital spot. But desperate men cannot be choosers. "There's no time for seeing me like the present," declared de Spain, ignoring Morgan and addressing his words to Logan. "Bring your friends in.
I admit that such a despot is a better selector of administrators than a Parliament; that he will know how to mix fresh minds and used minds better; that he is under a stronger motive to combine them well; that here is to be seen the best of all choosers with the keenest motives to choose.
"Teaching is an honorable and useful business; and it will make you friends." "I should much prefer to remain in this city and find a more congenial situation; but beggars can't be choosers, and so I have concluded to make the best of it. I am completely discouraged in trying for work in London." Ralph spoke as he felt, for he had become disheartened.
And now he was upon his feet, glaring with wrath, profoundly complacent in the assurance of superior wealth, and prepared to demolish both Angus and the King's English at a blow. "Them's nice words," he broke forth, "for a working man to be using to the man what he's dependent on for to get his bread and butter. And I want for to tell this man Strachan that beggars can't be choosers.
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