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'Twas the same thing going up a hill; whoever was behind, would be hanging over the horse's tail, with the arm about the fore-rider's neck or body, and the other houlding the baste by the mane, to keep them both from sliding off backwards. Many a come-down there was among them but, as I said, it was all in good humor; and, accordingly, as regularly as they fell, they were sure to get a cheer.
It's hardly your work. "'Nor yours either, answers she drily, 'judging by the way you've been keeping your own. "'You wouldn't like me to be head-waiter, I suppose? says he. 'It would be a bit of a come-down. "'You're thinking of the hotel, I suppose, says she. 'Perhaps you are right. My customers are mostly an old-fashioned class; it's probable enough they might not like you.
"Well, that name does awaken a purty tol'able fairsized echo," sez I, "but still, to be perfectly frank with you, me an' the Jamisons ain't on what you could call intimate terms any more." "I'm glad to learn it," sez Bill. "I'd hate to think that I had irritated you by implicatin' that it was a come-down for an English Earl to marry into your circle."
"Twenty-four, Sycamore Court Temple. What a come-down for him!" said Mrs. Ormonde, looking at the card she held, when they reached the cloak-room. "He seems cheerful enough," said Katherine, irritated at the tone in which the observation was made; "and I thought the Temple was rather a smart place to live in." "I am sure I don't know. Come, it must be late. What a stupid party!
Full of his own new idea, Abner felt a greater contempt than ever for Bond's late departure and for the facile success that had attended it. "I know how you look upon me," said Bond cheerfully. "Yet who, more than you yourself, is responsible for my come-down?" "You. When the psychological moment was on me and I needed most of all your encouragement, you dashed me with cold water instead.
"An' it was the hard fate for us, as well as for himself," replied Sullivan, "little he thought, or little he cared, for what he made us suffer, an' for what he's makin' us suffer still, by the come-down that the prices have got." "Well, but he's sufferin' himself more than any of us," replied Donnel; "however, that was prophesied too; it's read of in the ould Chronicles.
Doubtless he had a good reason this with a look of cunning scrutiny but, indeed, the place was quite unfit for any person of repute; he himself was eaten up with the rheumatics. He had seen the cracks widening; there was a plaguy issue in the bank below; he thought a spring was mining it; it might be to-morrow, it might be next day; but they were all sure of a come-down sooner or later.
One she dismissed as 'an auldish, impident wumman wi' specs'; and the other as 'terrible genteel. Both of them 'a sair come-down frae Miss Reston. Now you are gone you are on a pedestal." "I wasn't always on a pedestal," said Pamela, "but I shall always have a tenderness for Bella Bathgate and her parlour." She smiled to Lewis Elliot as she said it. Jean, sitting beside Mr.
Jacinth I don't like the idea of that post, whatever it is, at Barmettle. Jacinth drew a deep breath of relief. 'Oh, I am so glad you think so, she said. 'I scarcely liked to say it it seems selfish if it would save papa's going out again, and he has had so much of India; but it would be rather horrid, wouldn't it? And almost a come-down, it seems to me.
They had taken up such a grand position last term, and talked so magnificently about honour, and morality, and the credit of the school, that it was a sad come-down now to have to admit they had all been wrong, and still more that they had all been fools. And yet, after what had happened, they could no longer retain their suspicions of Oliver Greenfield.
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