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The rogue has been making inroads hitherto by modest degrees, foisting upon me an additional button, recommending gaiters; but to come upon me thus in a full tide of luxury, neither becomes him as a tailor or the ninth of a man.
"Then she must manage her rights for herself. It's no good her foisting her rights on to me." "Isn't that pure selfishness?" "It may be. I shall send my wife money as long as I've money to send." "And supposing you have none?" "Then I can't send it and she must look out for herself." "I call that almost criminal selfishness." "I can't help it." The conversation with the young Major broke off.
Almond was surprised at her levity in foisting a most deplorable engagement upon Catherine. "Deplorable?" cried Lavinia. "He will make her a lovely husband!" "I don't believe in lovely husbands," said Mrs. Almond; "I only believe in good ones. If he marries her, and she comes into Austin's money, they may get on. He will be an idle, amiable, selfish, and doubtless tolerably good-natured fellow.
We can fight foreigners when the time comes. He directed Nevil to look home, and cast an eye on the cotton-spinners, with the remark that they were binding us hand and foot to sell us to the biggest buyer, and were not Englishmen but 'Germans and Jews, and quakers and hybrids, diligent clerks and speculators, and commercial travellers, who have raised a fortune from foisting drugged goods on an idiot population.
If the boy said there was "a hole there in the hill" a hole, pure and simple, neither more nor less Kelmar and his Jew girls would follow him a hundred yards to look complacently down that hole. For two hours we looked for houses; and for two hours they followed us, smelling trees, picking flowers, foisting false botany on the unwary.
The Bishop smiled, remembering his many talks with the Prioress concerning Seraphine, and the Knight's dismay when he feared they were foisting the wayward nun upon him. Then he sighed as he realised that the control of the Convent had now passed into the able hands of Mother Sub-Prioress; and that, in these unusual circumstances, the task of selecting and appointing a new Prioress, fell to him.
Jimmie Dale, in the tonneau, stretched out his legs under the front seat, and dug his hands into his pockets and inside the pockets his hands were clenched and knotted fists. Murder! At times it had occurred to him that there was a possibility that some crook of the underworld would attempt to cover his tracks and take refuge from pursuit by foisting himself on the authorities as the Gray Seal.
Here, you woman within," he called to the lady whom I presume was his wife, "here is a gentleman from the nether regions who wants some breakfast and has paid in advance. Give him some of your best, for he has paid well." "And what," said a female voice from inside, "what if I refused to serve another of these plaguy wanderers you are always foisting upon me?" "Don't mind her tongue, sir.
But over and above this we must take into account all the labour that goes to sheer waste, here, in keeping up the stables, the kennels, and the retinue of the rich; there, in pandering to the caprices of society and the depraved tastes of the fashionable mob; there again, in forcing the consumer to buy what he does not need, or foisting an inferior article upon him by means of puffery, and in producing on the other hand wares which are absolutely injurious, but profitable to the manufacturer.
He quitted the detestable bed where a dream one of some half-dozen in the course of his life-had befallen him. For the maxim of the healthy man is: up, and have it out in exercise when sleep is for foisting base coin of dreams upon you! And as the healthy only are fit to live, their maxims should be law.
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