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Vernon, that my niece my elder niece, Lucretia Clavering condescends to notice the looks, good or bad, of Mr. Mainwaring? 'Sdeath, sir, he is the son of a land-agent! Sir, he is intended for trade! Sir, his highest ambition is to be partner in some fifth-rate mercantile house!" "My dear Sir Miles," replied Mr.
Teens, with his tail curled like the spring of an ancient watch, his broken-haired back stiffened with indignation, would stand and give the pass-word all dogs seem to know, and be overhauled and examined as he walked round the giant like an English gunboat by a Spanish fifth-rate; but when once the enemy turned his back, Teens exploded like a cracker, running under the big dog's nose, and often springing at his lip.
The ship we were on was carrying some fourteen hundred of these little men, packed like sardines in the hold, which had been transformed into a sort of fifth-rate lodging-house, with tiers of bunks for the accommodation of these little coolies.
I leaned my elbows on my knees, my forehead on my hands, as I sat and stared down at the bear-skin rug at my feet and saw a vision of fifth-rate existence pass before me.
But then it's life in a fifth-rate boarding-house in Bloomsbury if you know what that is." She did not know what that was, and her silence suggested that she conceived it to be something too unpleasant to discuss with him. "I work eight hours a day in my father's shop " "And when your work is done?" "I go back to the boarding-house and dine." "And after dinner?" Mr.
The words he employed were simple enough, and fell short of including the vocabulary of even fifth-rate declaimers; but he had the art of so disposing them that, to an honest reasoner, the position he took appeared to be impregnable.
Of course, a deliberate setting yourself to work to make some one fall in love with you, for the mere purpose of showing your power, is abominable, or would be, if anybody ever did it; but I do not suppose it ever was done, except in fifth-rate novels.
So few people want to study that sort of thing, and there were good masters already in the place. If I had known how to play, indeed! But I was never better than a fifth-rate executant; I had never gone in for that; my "lay" was composition. I couldn't give piano lessons, I couldn't play in public unless in a gargotte like the hole we have just left. Oh, I tried everything.
Modyford had written home repeatedly that if the king wished him to exercise any adequate control over the buccaneers, he must send from England two or three nimble fifth-rate frigates to command their obedience and protect the island from hostile attacks. Charles in reply to these letters sent out the "Oxford," a frigate of thirty-four guns, which arrived at Port Royal on 14th October.
Oh, you ass! you abject ass! Why, she's one of the richest women in America, and you're only a fifth-rate painter with a paltry thousand or so a year! You marry her! why, I dare say she's refused a hundred better men than you! She'd think you were mad! Why, she'd think you were after her money! She oh, she'd only think you a precious cheeky ass, she would, and she'd be quite right.
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