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When not doing so himself, he may have some informant skulking about, in the person of a watchman, porter, or such-like hanger-on of Staple. Am I agreed with generally in the views I take? 'I entirely coincide with them, said Mr. Crisparkle, who had been very attentive. 'As I have no doubt I should, added Mr. Tartar, smiling, 'if I understood them. 'Fair and softly, sir, said Mr.
"This rascal Howlman has informed upon the poor devil for spite," said the Commander; "here's a private note from Hayling to myself about the fellow." The lieutenant took the note and read "My dear Arness, Just a line on my own account. Be careful what you are doing in this business. The fellow who informed is a sort of hanger-on to the missionaries here.
Tenant and servant, hanger-on and sprig of the central tree, bore regard as well as fear for the young laird all save Staneholme's whilom love and wedded wife. Nelly did not wish to understand this repressed, ardent nature, although its developments sometimes forced themselves upon her.
"It is hard to see such a man as Shandon," Pen said, musing, and talking that night over the sight which he had witnessed, "of accomplishments so multifarious, and of such an undoubted talent and humour, an inmate of a gaol for half his time, and a bookseller's hanger-on when out of prison." "I am a bookseller's hanger-on you are going to try your paces as a hack," Warrington said with a laugh.
She can make Bruce do pretty nearly anything, they say. He's the latest conquest. I got the story on pretty good authority, but until I verified the names, dates, and places, of course I wouldn't dare print a line of it. The story goes that her husband is a hanger-on of the System, and that she's been working in their interest, too. That was why he was so complacent over the whole affair.
But of course living all your life with a man like Joe Samson wouldn't be exactly cheering." "It is a very strange thing to think that she married Joe Samson after all her chances," remarked Susan. "She was much sought after when she was a girl. She used to boast to me that she had twenty-one beaus and Mr. Pethick." "What was Mr. Pethick?" "Well, he was a sort of hanger-on, Mrs.
'Remember, all I saw was that a man was there. I concluded it was Andrews, waiting to take the horse; and as he is a great hanger-on of Sam, I wished to avoid him, and not keep my candle alight to attract his attention. That was the whole reason of my getting out of window, and starting so soon; as unlucky a thing as I could have done. 'You are sure it was not Andrews? 'Now I am.
Paul is a hanger-on by better right than many others who depend directly or indirectly on the energies of this great producing pirate." Kirk had exhausted his line of argument and fell silent, but Jack Staples stepped into the breach. Staples himself was no mean type of financier, holding as he did a commission as one of Malone's chief lieutenants.
It would kill the paper; it would endanger your whole position; and as for leadership, you could never hope " "Now, look here, Leo. You don't think I can stop my brother's marrying because it might be a poor connection for me? The point is that it wouldn't be good for Dave to be a poorly tolerated hanger-on. That's why I'm going hot-foot to Newport.
It is not a narrative, but a vague mooning; a knight illiterate, not merely like his fellow minnesingers, in the way of reading and writing, but in the sense of complete absence of all habit of literary form; extremely noble and pure of mind, chaste, gentle, with a funny, puzzled sense of humour, reminding one distantly of Jean Paul in his drowsy moments; a hanger-on of courts, but perfectly simple-hearted and childlike; very poor and easily pleased: such is, for good and for bad, Herr Wolfram von Eschenbach, the only real personality in his poem.
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