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"There they are," gasped Wilson, pretty blown. "There's only one," said Rogers, "and it is that young owl Bourne, too. He's shed Acton." "Perhaps he's punctured," suggested Grim; "anyhow, we hang on to Jack." Rather puzzled at the non-appearance of Acton, they kept the first-comer well in view as he pedalled hard for Westcote.
"You will not be betraying secrets to the first-comer," she said. Still de Vasselot seemed to hesitate, as if choosing his words.
Dear uncle, said Marcel softened, pressing the old Curé's hands, you still have those ideas then, you always think then that I shall become a Bishop? What? yes I think so; I do more than that, I am sure of it. Are you not of the stuff of which they make them? Why should not you become one as well as another? A bishopric is not for the first-comer. Don't worry me. Are you the first-comer?
Martha wished to teach, as her mother was a widow and poor. She applied for a situation in a neighboring town, but was told that some one had been before her, and though the matter was not then decided, the school was at last given to the first-comer, who proved to be Lucy. Lucy's father was a well-to-do merchant whose name was known to the committee, and this settled the question.
He simply has a start on them, and is quicker to make up his mind that the world is a grand banquet, free to the first-comer, but at which, to be well served, one must have long arms, be the first to get helped, and let the rest take what is left.
Now, you have a good outside show; you have more talent than is necessary, there is only one thing in which you are faulty, you are not sufficiently intriguing. Well, I will be so for you, and I will stir myself up for you. Success wholly lies in that. You say that a bishopric is not for the first-comer. You make me laugh.
There are a few men and many women for whom a secret is a responsibility to be transferred to the first-comer without hesitation. One half of the world takes pleasure in divulging a secret for the other half it is positive pain to keep one. Seymour Michael never dreamt that the secret might be in unsafe hands. To a secretive man like himself the incapacity to keep a counsel never suggested itself.
Here he was, without the slightest preliminary practice, successfully sitting with a lady in the dark, at the first attempt! And what lady? Not the first-comer! Not Mrs. Butt! Not the Mayoress! But the acknowledged Queen of Bursley, the undisputed leader of all that was most distinguished in Bursley society! And no difficulty about it either! And she had squeezed his hand.
I rather admired the simplicity with which he applied my limited means of solace to the first-comer who wanted it more than I; a genuine benevolent impulse does not stand on ceremony, and had I perished of colic for want of a stimulus that night, I should not have reproached my friend the Philanthropist, any more than I grudged my other ardent friend the two dollars and more which it cost me to send the charitable message he left in my hands.
"They'll all be certain to be there tonight." And the other asked: "And the raid'll be made ter-morrer?" The first-comer replied with a nod. At the next bridge the same thing occurred, and Shorty caught the words: "They've no idee. We'll ketch 'em clean offen their guard." "And the others'll come out?" asked the second-comer.
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