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"I don't care two straws about Deronda, or any other conceited hanger-on. You may talk to him as much as you like. He is not going to take my place. You are my wife. And you will either fill your place properly to the world and to me or you will go to the devil." "I never intended anything but to fill my place properly," said Gwendolen, with bitterest mortification in her soul.
'Shouldn't wonder if we have a large field, at length observed Jack, bringing his hack alongside his lordship's. 'Shouldn't wonder if Puff himself was to come all over brooches and rings as usual, replied his lordship. 'And Charley Slapp, I'll be bund to say, observed Jack. 'He a regular hanger-on of Puff's. 'Ass, that Slapp, said his lordship; 'hate the sight of him!
She felt that she was a mere hanger-on of the church, a sort of pet cat to the parson's wife. She was not developing herself independently, and she began secretly to outline a scheme which meant nothing less than leaving home to take some sort of position on the west coast.
He is a prince in the city, a persona grata wherever he chooses to go. He isn't a hanger-on in Society. He isn't even dependent upon Bohemia for his entertainment. You can't seriously imagine that a man with his possessions is likely to risk his life and liberty in becoming the inspiration of a band of cutthroats?" Francis smiled.
Kebble sharply asserted, that he was considered more a "hanger-on" of the establishment than its recognized head. The little rooms of the hotel were plainly furnished but maintained with exceptional neatness. The one in the east corner of the second floor met with the approval of Uncle John and the Major, and was promptly engaged.
"Oh, a handsome rascal; is sort of kinsman and hanger-on of the young Marquis of Arondelle; he used to be. I don't know anything more about him." "Perhaps he is the man." "Oh, no, he is not. There is no man in the convent. Well, we go up to London again in February. It will be her last season.
To any one observing us at this time it would have seemed that I was but a hanger-on, and a feeble imitator of Marshall. I took him to my tailor's, and he advised me on the cut of my coats; he showed me how to arrange my rooms, and I strove to copy his manner of speech and his general bearing; and yet I knew very well indeed that mine was a rarer and more original nature.
How poor, how slight, how insignificant William Losely the hanger-on of rural Thanes compared with that William Waife whose entrance into this house, you despite that felon's brand when you knew it was the martyr's glory, greeted with noble reverence; whom, when the mind itself was stricken down only the soul left to the wreck of the body you tended with such pious care as he lay on your father's bed!
He would be more spoiled, too, than I have been. The handsomest boy you ever saw-and bold as a lion. I swore to his mother on her death-bed that I would bring him up to avoid my errors that he should be no hanger-on and led-captain! And now you understand, sir, why my boy is not here. You would say a father who spoke thus had a man's honest stuff in him. Eh, Lionel!"
She had been but a tool in every sense, she, Jasmine Byng, one who ruled, had been used like a she could not form the comparison in her mind by a dependent, a hanger-on of her husband's bounty; and it was through her, originally, that he had been given a real chance in life by Rudyard. "I am sorry," she said, calmly, as soon as she could get her voice. "I was the means of your employing him."
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