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What do you think of it?" "The arrangement suits me so admirably," said John, smiling, "that I am hardly to be relied upon for an impartial opinion." "Will you tell me his circumstances?" John explained them in a few words, and with admirable terseness and lucidity; and she nodded comprehensively all the while. "That's capital. He can't make ducks and drakes of it. All tied up on the children.
With its new sense of security, its new sense of national energy and national power, the whole aspect of England suddenly changed. As yet the interest of Elizabeth's reign had been political and material; the stage had been crowded with statesmen and warriors, with Cecils and Walsinghams and Drakes. Literature had hardly found a place in the glories of the time.
He turned up the gas in his drop-light, and took the chair from which he had looked across the table at Halleck, when they talked there before. "It's the old subject," he said, with a sense of repetition in the situation. "I learn from Witherby that Hubbard has taken that money of yours out of the Events, and from what I hear elsewhere he is making ducks and drakes of it on election bets.
Then shall we list to no shallow gossip of Magellans and Drakes; but give ear to the voyagers who have circumnavigated the Ecliptic; who rounded the Polar Star as Cape Horn. Then shall the Stagirite and Kant be forgotten, and another folio than theirs be turned over for wisdom; even the folio now spread with horoscopes as yet undeciphered, the heaven of heavens on high.
She would make ducks and drakes of the whole business in less than a year!" A letter addressed to Evadne lay upon the pile of age-worn papers in an open drawer at his side. "I enclose herewith a letter to Evadne," his brother had written, "giving full and minute explanations as to her best course in the matter.
Look at the success of Strauss, for instance, of Debussy, and now of Jacques Sennier our own Elgar, too! What I mean is that perhaps the things you have done hitherto are for the very few. There is something terrible about them, I think. They might almost frighten people. They might almost make people dislike you." She was thinking of the Burningtons, the Drakes, of other Sennier-worshippers.
Yet those erred greatly who imagined that he bore any resemblance to villains who, in rich and well governed communities, live by stealing. When he drove before him the herds of Lowland farmers up the pass which led to his native glen, he no more considered himself as a thief than the Raleighs and Drakes considered themselves as thieves when they divided the cargoes of Spanish galleons.
We strolled along the beach and gathered large quantities of the fairy-woven Iceland moss, which at certain seasons is washed to these shores; then we played at ducks and drakes, and then, the sun being sufficiently low, we went in bathing.
I'd like you to have it. I get possession of my money on my marriage, you know: and, thank goodness, it is not in trust. My father had a perfect horror of leaving things in trust." "I'm not sure I agree with him there," said Godfrey. "You might have got hold of a chap who would make ducks and drakes of your money. But as things are, it is all right, of course.
There wasn't never nothing nowhere that beat Bill. Bill wouldn't ha' left us! Bill'd ha' took us out o' here, an' saved our lives. Bill snnff, snnff Bill wouldn't ha' snnff, snnff shoved us in a rat-hole and took hisself off!" She had not yet lost her English point of view. She still believed that the strong right arm of an English lover could play ducks and drakes with Destiny.
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