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Updated: June 25, 2025
"I see that fly-by-night divil Shandy talkin' to ye as I come in. What new mischief is he up to now?" "He wants me to pull Lauzanne." "He ain't got no gall, has he? That come from headquarters; it's Langdon put him up to that." "He was talkin' to me, too." "I t'ought he would be. But he didn't know ye, Miss Allis " Heavens! It was out.
Would you have had her married to a wild fly-by-night, that accident made an earl and nature a deer-stealer? that has not wit enough to eat venison without picking a quarrel with monarchy? that flings away his own lands into the clutches of rascally friars, for the sake of hunting in other men's grounds, and feasting vagabonds that wear Lincoln green, and would have flung away mine into the bargain if he had had my daughter?
Do you tell me that this party is going to be turned upside down by a kid-glove aristocrat who has hardly stirred out of his office during this campaign?" "He has had a chap to do his stirring for him," stated one of the group. "A hobo, scum of the rough-scruff, hailing from nowhere! Shown up in our newspapers as a ditch-digger a fly-by-night a nobody!
"We're all but married, Hannah; our carpet is being wove and that suite of furniture ordered through Priest. You've been upset by this talk of theaters and such. You'd get tired of them and that fly-by-night life in a month." "Phebe hasn't." "What suits one doesn't suit all," he said concisely. "It would suit more girls than you know for," she informed him.
The reason for this is that the Frenchman abhors the fly-by-night salesman: he likes to feel that the man with whom he is trading has taken some sort of root in his midst. With organisation must come knowledge. Why did the Germans succeed so amazingly in France?
If you feel well enough, you had better run down on board in the course of a day or two, and see how matters are going on. Now come away into the other room and have some lunch." On the following morning, directly after breakfast, I started in Mr Finnie's ketureen for Kingston, and, reaching the wharf about noon, chartered that fast-sailing clipper, the "Fly-by-night," to convey me to Port Royal.
He never included Rodney in this vengeance, although he felt sure indeed Rodney had practically admitted as much to him that it had been her husband's disapproval, rather than the miscellaneous gossip of society at large, which had driven her from the security and promise of the Globe to the exiguities of a fly-by-night road company.
She would not, even when her heart was sick with apprehension because of the story in the newspaper, give her cousin the opportunity of saying that she showed the white feather. She lay close to the beam of the ice boat, clung to the hand-holds, and made no outcry as the craft flew off upon the other tack. Had the wind been directly astern, the course of the Fly-by-Night would have been smoother.
Now, to my smarting mind, it seemed as if it was he who was the wronger, and I the wronged. "Hullo, old fly-by-night," suddenly exclaimed a voice beside me, as I walked slowly on my way; "what's the joke? Never saw such a fellow for grinning, upon my honour. Why can't you look glum for once in a way, eh, my mouldy lobster?"
Gyp and Jerry heard Aunt Maria, behind them, explaining that Peregrine's name was really Sarah! "I changed it Peregrine is so much more 'chic. I'm teaching her French myself; in a little while she'll pass as a French maid and she will have all the plain common-sense of her Hoosier bringing-up which those fly-by-night French maids don't. A very good arrangement I think."
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