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I could not exist as a hanger-on in the house that was once my own, I might find myself a pied a terre in Paris or Vienna, and finish life pleasantly enough among some of the friends I liked when I was young. Six or seven hundred a year would be opulence for a man of my habits." Little by little Clarissa came to accept those visits of Mr.
But at last old papa declared that it was time for Featherhead to settle himself to some business in life, roundly declaring that he could not always have him as a hanger-on in the paternal hole. "What are you going to do, my boy?" said Tip Chipmunk to him one day. "We are driving now a thriving trade in hickory-nuts, and if you would like to join us "
The former, it seems, had his suspicions, and setting himself to watch, had discovered that she was corresponding with this man whom he had found was not the personage he pretended to be, but a disreputable hanger-on of the Court, one John Harvey and had then kept up an incessant watch, with the aid of John Wilkes, outside the house at night, until he saw her come out and join the fellow with two associates, when he followed her to the chair they had in readiness for her.
Like many wealthy people, it was Miss Crawley's habit to accept as much service as she could get from her inferiors; and good-naturedly to take leave of them when she no longer found them useful. Gratitude among certain rich folks is scarcely natural or to be thought of. They take needy people's services as their due. Nor have you, O poor parasite and humble hanger-on, much reason to complain!
"In face of all this, serious doubts arise in my mind. Is it for me to speak with superciliousness and superiority of Paul, or to look down upon him? I ask you, as I have been asking myself every day these three weeks is he not the wise man and I the fool? He the useful member of society, and I the mere hanger-on? His life the real, mine the shadow?
"First, a beautiful Indian girl; now, a mysterious white woman! Why, Kalvik is decidedly interesting." "There is nothing mysterious about the white woman," said Marsh. "She is quite typical just a plain mining camp hanger-on who drifted down our way." "Not at all," Boyd disclaimed, angrily.
Brother Paul shines by some of this reflected glory so it has become the fashion to damn Brother Paul, too." It began to dawn on the fair-haired young man that he was being chaffed. His reply came sulkily. "To my mind Paul Burton is nothing but a hanger-on." "Quite true. So am I. So are you. So are all of us who produce nothing tangible.
On the other hand, eighty departments have been laboring to-day, without concert, without any mutual understanding, for the provisioning of Paris." The theme may well excite wonder. But wonder should always be watched with a wary eye; for he is apt to bring in his train a hanger-on called worship, who can do nothing but mischief here.
He accused the wretched man of interference in assuming control of the expedition; he said that he was a mere hanger-on, and a useless and selfish one at that. The professor wilted. He made a thousand apologies, and finally ran off wringing his fat hands, found with great difficulty four more eggs and cast them into the boiling water. "There," he said, "you can have your four eggs."
Here I can easily be persuaded to become a conceited fool, a flattered hanger-on of a court." We need scarcely tell of the musician's career in England. We are already familiar with London fashionable life. We have had life-histories, three volumes at a time, that have taken us into the very houses, told us of all the domestic quarrels, some already healed, some still pending.
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