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He added, with an easy assurance that drew a frown to the contractor's face, "It's a considerable come-down for me to have to work hard at all, and I was told you were generally good to a distressed countryman. Can't you really give me anything easier?" "I try to be helpful to my countrymen when they're worth it," answered Geoffrey, dryly.
But it's a come-down in the world, Mr Whittlestaff." "If you think I've come down in the world, you'd better keep it to yourself, and not tell me. I don't think that I've come down." "You bear up against it finely like a man, sir; but for a poor woman like me, I do feel it." Such was Mrs Baggett and the record of her life. But this little conversation took place before the coming of Mary Lawrie.
Won't anything, even the best, in Endbury be a come-down for her? The attainments of Mrs.
"I wouldn't do it if Gora had made the friends I hoped for her," she said, turning the heel of the first of her son's winter socks, "and there's no such thing as a social come-down for us; for that matter, there is more than one lady, once wealthy, who is keeping a boarding-house in this town.
'The cottage is a shocking come-down, said my mother to the rector, 'but it is not vulgar; it is at least a place in which a lady can live. Of course the university was now out of the question, and at fifteen I left school. I had read a little Virgil, a little Horace, and a book or two of Homer.
"Just as well you should be on the spot," agreed James Antony. "You go to Habshiabad, I suppose, Gerrard?" "I suppose so, sir." "Precious little enthusiasm over the prospect, I see. Well, it is a come-down for the acting-Resident of Agpur." "That was entirely a thing out of the usual run, sir." Gerrard roused himself in self-defence.
It was too early to prophesy concerning the fortunes of next term's cricket team, but, if they were going to resemble the fifteen, Wrykyn was doomed to the worst athletic year it had experienced for a decade. "It's a bit of a come-down after last season, isn't it?" resumed Allardyce, returning to his sorrows. It was a relief to him to discuss his painful case without restraint.
He lost his property somehow, and is obliged to give lessons in French and Italian. Quite a come-down, isn't it?" In the evening he discussed his plans with Cornelius. "Can't I get more than two dollars a week in a store?" he asked. "I am afraid not; though you might stumble on a place where they would give three." "Even that would not be enough to live upon.
"Well," she said, "it is a fact that Father Molyneux would give up the Roman Church to-morrow if a very intimate friend of mine, who could give him as much wealth as he has lost, would agree to marry him after he ceased to be a priest!" "Oh! how dreadfully disappointing!" cried Adela. "Why shouldn't he?" said Billy. "It seems a come-down," said the fat man; and the soldier said nothing.
It's a mighty big come-down from gambling for a continent to gambling for a job." "Just the same " Billy recommenced. "Oh, you've got it in your blood," Hall cut him off cavalierly. "And why not? Everybody in this country has been gambling for generations. It was in the air when you were born. You've breathed it all your life.
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