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Croppor as one woman can be from another." "Because she has not the position in society," replied Mrs. Wardour, enveloping her nothing in flimsy reiteration and self- contradiction. "And Mrs. Cropper has the position?" ventured Letty, with a little palpitation from fear of offending. "Apparently so," answered Mrs. Wardour. But her inquiring pupil did not feel much enlightened.
J.S. Howson, afterward Dean of Chester, married a sister of the John Cropper who married Susan Arnold, and was thus a few years later brought into connection with the Arnolds and Fox How.
Lastly he dragged himself downwards with such energy that something had to go, that something being the skin and muscle of the lower lip, which was cut clean through, leaving the knife erect in the bough. Over he went backwards, a most imperial cropper.
Eight per cent.! He'll come a cropper one of these days, if you ask me. He's been near it once or twice already. That's got his nerves to rags. I suppose we're all human beings really, but what price the sacred Institution of the Family! Us as a bundle! Eh?... I don't half disagree with you, Vee, really; only thing is, I don't see how you're going to pull it off.
"Were you resigned when you were fifteen?" "No, my lassie! I wasn't, indeed. Very far from it, I'm sorry to say. But when one has travelled on for many years and come many a cropper on the way one does long to show one's children the short cuts! That's one short cut. Darsie; I wish you'd take it, and avoid the falls. If you can't have what you like, try to like what you have.
This cabin was in better repair and larger than the other two cabins and the hardest thing to do was to get a tenant or negro cropper to take this cabin. They would give every excuse imaginable but the direct answer until finally one man I was trying to make a trade with admitted that "De cabin war ter clos ter de barn Mr. killed himself in."
My! what a cropper you must have come down when you got that dab on your proboscis!" "Stop your howlin'," shouted Quintal to the musicians, in order to vent some of the spleen which his friend's remark had stirred up.
And it's a certainty that I'll be despised. It means an end to a career I found tremendously interesting. I didn't need the money it brought. But I " "What in the world are you talking about?" she demanded, drawing a little away from him. "Listen," he interrupted. "A lot of men, in my line and in others, have come a cropper in their careers, because of some woman.
She remembers her visit to Edinburgh, and your hospitality, with the greatest pleasure. Calcutta is called, and not without some reason, the city of palaces; but I have seen nothing in the East like the view from the Castle Rock, nor expect to see anything like it till we stand there together again. Kindest regards to Lord Jeffrey. Yours most truly To Mrs. Cropper. Calcutta: December 7, 1834.
Finally I prevailed on this man to move in by giving him a different garden spot, hog-pen and cowpen as these were still nearer the barn. In fact I moved those buildings thinking I would have an easier time gettin a tenant the next year. Everything went along beautifully until time came to House the tobacco and not a negro cropper would use this barn for his tobacco.
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