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"I shall marry an Italian count," cried Zell. "Who will turn out a fourth-rate Italian barber, and I shall have to support you both. But I won't do it. You would have to help him shave." "No, I should transform him into a leader of banditti, and we would live in princely state in the Apennines.
The American flag ship had been sunk by a fourth-rate European ironclad the first practical proof of the miserably short-sighted policy of a nation of fifty millions of inhabitants, with an enormous coast line and innumerable ports to be protected, relying for its safety upon a navy the fifty-five available vessels of which are too slow to run away, and too lightly armed and too weakly built to defend themselves.
Ridicule of the Administration runs through the programmes of the theatres; it inspires hundreds of cartoons; it is a staple of conversation at private dinners and in the clubs. The most serious class of Englishmen, including the best friends of the United States, feel that the Administration's reliance on notes has reduced our Government to a third-or fourth-rate power.
However, she might well change her name." "She did not change her name. She was baptised Denasia." "Robert went to hear her sing. He says it was in a fourth-rate place, and I can tell you he was burning with indignation to see his brother-in-law playing a piano there." "Then he ought to let his anger burn to some purpose.
However, he may have exaggerated slightly. If you can forget that you are paying first-class prices for fourth-rate accommodations forget the dirt in the carriages and the smells in the compartments a railroad journey through the Italian Peninsula is a wonderful experience. I know it was a wonderful experience for me.
His rhetoric, though deformed by every imaginable fault of taste, from bombast down to buffoonery, was not wholly without force and vivacity. He had also one quality which, in active life, often gives fourth-rate men an advantage over first-rate men. Whatever he could do, he could do without effort, at any moment, in any abundance, and on any side of any question.
"You go round and have a good time while I am tied down to this fourth-rate tavern in the woods." "Well, it isn't much more than that," said Warner, musingly. "Do you expect me to keep a first-class hotel?" demanded Brown, defiantly. "No, of course not. Brown," continued Warner, soothingly, "don't let us quarrel; we can't afford it. Let us talk together reasonably." "What have you to say?"
Whatever the texture of the dress, it should be made by the very best dressmaker you call afford. As well go to a third or fourth-rate dentist, music-master, or doctor, as go to a third or fourth-rate dressmaker. The dressmaker is a woman's good or evil genius. Morning dress should be faultless in its way.
Mine is the fourth story back of a fourth-rate boarding-house, where the thermometer drops often below the freezing-point, and this place I share with as uncongenial a fellow as ever breathed. What would you think of labelling such accommodations 'home? and what can I do in it for others?" "Not much, perhaps," smiling, "unless for the uncongenial fellow.
Now, scarcely twenty years after the war, we seem to have forgotten the lessons it taught, and are going on as if in the greatest security, without the power to resist an invasion by the fleets of fourth-rate European powers for a time until we could prepare for them. We should have a good navy, and our sea-coast defences should be put in the finest possible condition.
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