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Updated: June 25, 2025
I am all right, and everlastingly obliged to you, but I do not wish to be detained in Marseilles while the slow French law gets to work. So let him go. He is nothing a mere hireling, yes? And we sail to-morrow." "You've left your trademark on this chap," broke in Tagg. He was bending over a prostrate body, and the cab-driver was bewailing the plight of his voiturette.
It was not he who had made the little god, and brewed the poison for the arrow's tip. No, it was some power greater than himself that had prepared this situation, some power cruel and implacable, which plots against domestic tranquillity; perhaps it was some hireling of capitalism, which will not permit a propagandist of social justice to do his work in peace of soul.
M. de Laporte, minister of the civil list and of the household, also attempted to give a bias to public opinion by means of hireling publications; but these papers influenced none but the royalist party, which did not need influencing. M. de Laporte had a private police which gave him some useful information.
And yet, 'Mock me not, he makes the shade of Achilles say; 'Better to be the hireling of a stranger and serve a man of mean estate, whose living is but small, than be the monarch over all those dead and gone." The general leaned yet farther out, and looked upward.
His sitting-room, with its dark red wallpaper and several good prints framed in dark oak Burne-Jones' "Study for Cupid's Masque," Hunt's "Hireling Shepherd," and Whistler's "Battersea Bridge" were the best might have been delightful had he learned to select; but at the present stage in his development he hated rejecting anything as long as it reached a certain standard.
It was absurd that Li Choo, the hireling, "Yellowphiz," as he had also been called, should here command a situation with the authority of one who ruled. Presently he spoke, not in broken English, but in Chinese. It was interpreted by the Chinaman standing on the right by the screens, in well cadenced, cultured English.
It cannot be gainsaid that the lifelessness and emptiness of the State Church, with its hireling and often ignorant priesthood, fails to satisfy the great mind of Russia the peasant mind but now awakening from its long infant slumber, as did the mind of Western Europe three centuries ago.
The High Church party obtained the ascendancy and abused their power. Tyranny brought revolution, and the Catholic element in turn disappeared. The Bishops were displaced by Presbyterian elders. The Presbyterian elders became in turn 'hireling wolves, 'old priest' written in new characters. Cromwell had left conscience free to Protestants.
Granting this apprentice scheme to be arranged without oppression or sin of any kind, I hold that the condition of our slaves owned by masters and mistresses, is better than such a hireling condition, though it have the appearance of liberty." "Why so?" inquired Mr. North. "The slaves are not treated as hired horses are liable to be treated," I replied.
Matilda; call you it murder to overcome the enemies of one's country in fair and honorable combat, and in the field of glory?" "Call YOU it what you will disguise it under whatever cloak you may it is no less murder. Nay, the worst of murders, for you but do the duty of the hireling slayer.
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