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Many people say he is very inferior to Mr. Chamberlain; but most assuredly I do not in the least agree with this opinion. To me the difference between the two men is the difference between a scholar and a counter-jumper I mean a counter-jumper of the Senate, and not of the shop. But though that is my opinion, I cannot refrain from saying that Mr. Balfour contrasts very unfavourably with Mr.
Thereupon the long-limbed clerk verified the taunt of "counter-jumper" by clearing it at a bound. The bully protested in a torrent of unrepeatable words. "I see," said the champion of decency, "you want a whipping, and I may as well give it you as any other man."
The stranger could not help smiling as he gave a visiting card to the old man, desiring him to observe that he was living at a country-house at Chevreuse; and, after pointing this out to him, he hurried away. "You very nearly damaged that poor young counter-jumper, my dear," said the Count, advancing hastily to meet Emilie. "Do you not know how to hold your horse in?
Imagine, if you please, a poor devil chained in the treadmill of the capitalist system a "soda-jerker", a "counter-jumper", a book-keeper for the Steel Trust.
And then suddenly he said: "I remember Mr. Gordon used to call me a gipsy counter-jumper when I was in his form." And before Philip, his mind fixed on the photographs, had time to gather the meaning of the remark, Mr.
For he soon began to find out that he must compromise that blood by marrying the heretic burgher's daughter, or all his labor would be thrown away. "No, sir; you should know that my cheek is not for you." "Why," said he, stifling his anger, "it seems free enough to every counter-jumper in the town!" Was it love, or simple innocence, which made her answer apologetically?
There is a sort of "hero-worship," as Mr Carlyle would term it, attaching to the most absurd, ridiculous, and even vicious doings of people who might be fashionable; a counter-jumper, barber's clerk, medical student, or tailor's apprentice, adores the memory of that great man whom we are happy to be able to style the late "markis."
Against arrogance, against contempt of himself as a shop person, a species of "counter-jumper," against irascibility, against bigoted ignorance, against an indissoluble assumption, perhaps logical, that he is of inferior mentality, this factotum has no defence. His very business is to meet all with amenity. It is his daily portion, included in the material with which he works.
He ate his dinner at a restaurant daily, and expended twenty-five cents for it without blenching. He went to the theatre once a week, and was often accompanied by "lady friends" who were "elegant dressers." In a moment of wrath Stephen had called him a "counter-jumper," but it was a libel. So short and rough a means of exit from his place of power was wholly beneath Claude's dignity.
Yet they carry on the "broken counter-jumper, the ragged ex-plumber," the clerk from the office, the man from the farm; Londoner, Canadian, Australian, New Zealander, men drawn from every quarter of the Empire, who daily justify their manhood by devotion to an ideal and by contempt of death.
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