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But more remarkable evidence of it was found, by those who understood, in his memorable journey to salt water. By all the rules of the game, men said, Beeching and his hanger-on should have been starved, frozen, and eaten by their outraged dogs a week or more before the end of their trip.
This gave her an audience and was an outlet for her anger against Kie Wicks and his Mexican hanger-on. "Take it easy, child. There's lots of time to find that treasure that is if there is one. We don't need it right away, you know," soothed the professor. But it took Bet a long time to regain her poise.
The grandson of the old Herod, the brother of Agrippa of the Acts of the Apostles, the hanger-on of the Imperial Court, with Roman vices veneered on his native wickedness, was not the man to welcome the entrance of a revolutionary ferment into his household; and yet through his barred doors had crept quietly, he knowing nothing about it, that great message of a loving God, and a Master whose service was freedom.
"The old man is a Roman, a hanger-on of the mamma, a useful personage who now and then gets asked to dinner. The ladies are foreigners, from some Northern country; I won't say which." "Perhaps from the State of Maine," said Rowland. "No, she 's not an American, I 'll lay a wager on that. She 's a daughter of this elder world.
This financier, a fashionable wit, great at charades, capping verses, and posies to Chlora, lived in society, was a hanger-on to the Duc de Nivernais, and fancied himself obliged to follow the nobility into exile; but he took care to carry his money with him. Thus the rich emigre was able to assist more than one family of high rank.
"And Nick has been a great hanger-on of garrisons, and should know the use that I can make of his back. You will remember, Tuscarora, that I have had you flogged, more than once, in my day." This was said menacingly, and with more warmth, perhaps, than was prudent.
"Madame Cheverny has danced in several ballets before the king, and has been to the masquerades, but neither of us is made to be a hanger-on of courts." "Good for you," replied Jacques Haret. "I knew something of the folly of that in my childhood. My father was a born hanger-on of courts, as you express it.
If you know anybody who knows him, tell them to bring him to my next afternoon Saturday. But why does chose machin Smithson allow such a handsome hanger-on? After marriage I could understand that he might not be able to help himself; but before marriage a man generally has some kind of authority.
Anything that heightens the self-respect of the race is good for us to behold, and it is a permanent source of comfort to all who thirst after reality in teachers, whether their teaching happens to be our own or not, to find that the prophet of social equality was not a fine gentleman, nor the teacher of democracy a hanger-on to the silly skirts of fashion.
Were the sums transfers from accounts in New York banks? But it was hardly likely that a little Broadway hanger-on had had so much hard cash on deposit. Then where had she got it $5,000 at a time, here in Hamilton? Blackmail! Hastily but thoroughly Dundee ran through the remaining check stubs.... No record at all of a check for rent made out to Judge Hugo Marshall!
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