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"You will get no more from me," he said, "than you would get from any cobbler or greengrocer, for you have only come because it happened to be convenient, and you will only criticise my style, not really wishing to learn principles" "Well, but," answered the orator, "if I attend to that sort of thing, I shall be a mere pauper like you, with no plate, or equipage, or land."
He'd dash across country in the face of heavy guns any day with the best of them." "He rides well," Philip answered, "and has a wonderful seat. I saw him on that bay mare of Wilder's in town the other afternoon, and I must say he rode much more like a gentleman than a cobbler." "Oh, he's a gentleman," the General repeated, with unshaken conviction: "a thoroughbred gentleman."
Yet he was determined that he would not rest, until he had found means of disposing, in his Lord's service, of every penny that remained to him, after his own modest wants had been supplied. Actuated by this purpose, "Cobbler" Horn resolved to pay another visit to his minister. Mr. Durnford had helped him before, and would help him again. Of set purpose, he selected Monday morning for his visit.
In the midst of his meditation, Jinnie returned to her seat. "Cobbler, will you do something I ask you?" "Sure," assented Lafe. "Get busy trusting Peg'll get the two dollars to-night." "I have long ago, child, an' she's goin' to get it, too. That's one blessin' about believin'. No one nor nobody can keep you from gettin' what's your own." "Mrs.
And all the time he was thinking thinking and praying; and many generous purposes, which afterwards bore abundant fruit, began to germinate in his mind. At length the momentous day arrived, and "Cobbler" Horn travelled by an early train to London, and, having dined frugally at a decent eating-house, presented himself in due time at the offices of Messrs. Tongs and Ball.
And now the Cossacks on their spare and ill-tempered horses passed to and fro, wild men under an untamed leader whose heart was hardened to stone by bereavement. The cobbler looked at them with a countenance of wood. It was hard to say whether he preferred them to the French, or was indifferent to one as to the other. He looked at their boots with professional disdain.
His ship comed in yester morn. 'I wonder if he's seen my father anywheres. 'Ah! Best ask of him. Master Mortimer be a merry young gen'leman, sure enough. But I reckon that time have sobered him! 'Grown-up peoples aren't merry, said the small boy, ''cept Sam Conway, when he's drunk! Sam Conway was the cobbler, who was the village drunkard.
Guthrie, the apostle of the Ragged School movement, says of the influence which the example of John Pounds, the humble Portsmouth cobbler, exercised upon his own working career: "The interest I have been led to take in this cause is an example of how, in Providence, a man's destiny his course of life, like that of a river may be determined and affected by very trivial circumstances.
And he was human enough not to make her uncomfortable in his presence. But it so happened that before she could see Victor Dorn her father disobeyed Dr. Charlton and gave way to the appetite that was the chief cause of his physical woes. He felt so well that he ate the family dinner, including a peach cobbler with whipped cream, which even the robust Jane adventured warily.
There stood the giant Santerre, and not far from him Simon the cobbler, in the midst of a crowd of savage- looking, defiant fellows, who all looked at their leaders, while they, Santerre and Simon, directed their eyes up to the box of Marat. The glance of the chief met that of his two friends.
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