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I should not mind his having an appointment in London, or some county thing that wouldn't give him much to do, about here perhaps. But to go and slave in some horrid dirty place where there would be no one we could speak to; that would be a come-down after the position he has had in India. 'Oh Jass, said Frances, 'don't let us spoil this beautiful news by thinking of anything disagreeable.
"It seems a bit of a come-down for him to be living in this comparative obscurity," he observed, half to himself. "I daresay he's comfortable enough, still, after the Ritzes and the Carltons..." "I heard him tell the doctor a fortnight ago that he was absolutely stony, so I suppose that accounts for it. He was going to sell his car." "Oh, I see!"
It's the party. You always get so excited over parties." Judith considered it a "come-down" to get excited over anything. "Great Scotland! I guess I don't get excited over one of these student parties!" Sylvia repudiated the idea. "All Father's 'favorite students' are such rough-necks. And it makes me tired to have all our freaks come out of their holes when we have company Miss Lindström and Mr.
'Dolly would be sure to sell the presentation, said Lady Pomona. 'Perhaps the bishop would do something, said the anxious sister, 'when he found that the man wasn't a celibate. Anything, mamma, would be better than the Jew. To this latter proposition Lady Pomona gave a cordial assent. 'Of course it is a come-down to marry a curate, but a clergyman is always considered to be decent.
It used to Annoy him considerably when any one came in and wanted to Spend Money. He would set out the Goods in a Manner that showed it to be something of a Come-Down for him to be compelled to Wait on Outsiders. While the Customer would be asking Questions, Bert would be working the Flexible Neck to see if Essie was still waiting for him.
Fifteen paid the penalty for their crimes that night; but two reached the shore: Starkey to be captured by the redskins, who made him nurse for all their papooses, a melancholy come-down for a pirate; and Smee, who henceforth wandered about the world in his spectacles, making a precarious living by saying he was the only man that Jas. Hook had feared.
Looking over the rail a few moments afterward, we saw him at the galley-door talking with the cook. This was indeed a come-down, from the highest seat in the synagogue to a seat in the galley with the black cook. At night, too, when supper was called, he stood in the waist for some time, hoping to be asked down with the officers, but they went below, one after another, and left him.
"Of course you and I and everybody who really knows the Bitts and Magsworth families understand the perfect absurdity of it; but I suppose there are ever so many who'll believe it, no matter what the Bittses and Magsworths say." "Hundreds and hundreds!" said Mrs. Williams. "I'm afraid it will be a great come-down for them." "I'm afraid so," said Mrs. Schofield gently.
The robber was very friendly, and talked to us a great deal. 'I wasn't always in this low way of business, he said, when Noel said something about the things he had turned out of his pockets. 'It's a great come-down to a man like me. But, if I must be caught, it's something to be caught by brave young heroes like you. My stars! How you did bolt into the room, "Surrender, and up with your hands!"
Moss, eagerly, for she dreaded to have Ben go, and no one could forbid it if his father chose to take him away. "That sounds likely. Thanky, ma'am. I'll look up the concern and try my chance. Would you call it too great a come-down to have father an 'ostler after being first rider in the 'Great Golden Menagerie, Circus, and Colossem, hey, Ben?" asked Mr.
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