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"I fancy you will find they are high-fliers," he said when the pair had left to fetch a suitable table, for the night being very hot we were going to play on the stoep by the light of the hanging paraffin lamp and some candles. I replied to the effect that I could not afford to lose large sums of money, especially to men who for aught I knew might then be engaged in marking the cards.
There were no fooleries in his time; no unseemly hussies stuck under his bowsprit, to put an honest man out of countenance; no high-fliers in sail and paint; no singing and luting but all was rational and gainful barter. Then, he was a man to ballast his boat with something valuable.
We could do nothing for him with his views, but he will wait for Peel." "Oh! Peel will never stand those high-fliers. He put the Church into a Lay Commission during his last government." "Penruddock will never give up Anglicanism while there is a chance of becoming a Laud. When that chance vanishes, trust my word, Penruddock will make his bow to the Vatican."
It is the ambition of rebels, preaching upon the discontents of sectaries, that they are not supreme, which hath caused wars for religion. He is mistaken altogether. His little narrow understanding and want of learning. "Though some say the high-fliers' lives might serve for a very good rule, if men would act quite contrary to them," Is he one of those some?
At first look I says to myself: 'One o' these high-fliers I've heard talk about that likes to fly low. Then I flings your eyes one penetrating peep, and says to myself: ''Spect she ain't one o' that kind. And I make out just this about you that you're O.K. from A to Xylophone, and I takes this opportunity to remark aloud to myself that I don't know what your game is, and it's none o' my haterogeneous business, but if I was you I'd cut Marrow Lane out o' my itenerary, and stay home nights playin' a quiet rubber o' tiddle winks-the-barber."
As for their successors, "it is our business to hope, and time must answer for those that come in. If Tories, if Jacobites, if High-fliers, if madmen of any kind are to come in, I am against them; I ask them no favour, I make no court to them, nor am I going about to please them." But the question was, what was to be done in the circumstances?
"Perfectly true," he declared; "not the dazzlers and the high-fliers, anyway the only ones it would be an excitement to carry off." "You know very well," she said, slowly, "that now you might marry anybody." He threw his head back rather haughtily. "Oh! I wasn't thinking about money, and that kind of thing. Well, give me time, mother don't hurry me!
And while they were on the subject of mismanagement, he would give them a word of advice which he had often given them before. "While you bite and devour one another, you are all mismanagers. Put an end to your factions, your tumults, your rabbles, or you will not be able to make war upon anybody." Previously, however, his way of making peace at home was to denounce the High-fliers.
Beside the new turn of wit, &c. all the clergy in England come under his notion of high-fliers, as he states it. This account false in fact. Ibid. "And the body-politic, whether ecclesiastical or civil, must be dealt with after the same manner, as the body-natural." What, because it is called a body, and is a simile, must it hold in all circumstances?
In disobedience to the scriptural injunction, we had observed the clouds and the birds. Twice a flock of lesser frigate-birds, those dark, fish-tailed high-fliers which are for ever cutting animated "W's" in the air with long lithe wings had appeared. Seldom do they come unless as harbingers of boisterous weather. On each recent occasion they had been absolutely trustworthy messengers.
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