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We certainly deserved it, as this case amply proves. "The Land League? The Ruffian League, the Burglar League, the Pickpocket League, the Murder League that's what I always called it. A hole-and-corner way of carrying on the fight, which had been begun by MEN, but which the latest fashion of Irishmen have not the courage to canduct as men.
Christianity might have lost herself, if it had not been for some such change as that of the fourth century, in a multitude of hole-and-corner churches like the churches of English Nonconformity after its founders departed; churches without great men, and without furtherance for the higher life of humanity.
I repeat it once more, let the exclusively loyal gentry let the life and fortune men let the hole-and-corner addressers come forward, and point me out one instance amongst their whole hordes, of a man who ever volunteered to serve his country to such an extent. What I this day told Dr. Colston, the Visiting Magistrate, is quite applicable on this subject.
"Such a hole-and-corner business. Hardly fair on my father...." "Well, there's no question of it now," she reminded him, with a touch of asperity. "I've told you the whole thing's defunct. Later we'll be glad, perhaps, that I discovered in time that part of me could not be coerced by the other part, which still wants you as much as ever. We should have been landed in disaster soon or late.
Norah's mother wouldn't let her wait three years, and though fellows have been known to have had a couple of kids at the time of their official marriage, I personally couldn't stand the wear and tear of that hole-and-corner business. It couldn't be done. Julian Eversleigh's Narrative It is all very, very queer. I do not understand it at all. It makes me sleepy to think about it.
I do not approve of hole-and-corner marriages, but where the gentleman has to take up an official position some allowance must be made. We can have Lady Hilda Edgecombe, and the Trevors, and the Grevilles, and I am sure that the Prime Minister would run down if he could." "And papa?" "Oh, yes; he will come too, if he is well enough.
The wretched creature had been properly punished stamped out by knaves of his own class in a vulgar street brawl a dirty hole-and-corner end. Egad, my lord was very right. These petty, shabby knaves should be dealt with privately. Mr. Waverton found revenge very sweet. So Mr. Harry Boyce had gone to his account, and Alison was happily delivered. Dear child! Mr.
As the result of inquiries Spencer was deposited at the entrance to a dingy court, the depths of which, he was assured, were illumined by "The Firefly." There is nothing that so mystifies the citizen of the New World as the hole-and-corner aspect of some of the business establishments of London.
"A variety of circumstances have conspired to bring such a result about," he answered. "I have been thinking the matter over, and not being able to determine the benefit of this hole-and-corner sort of game, I have made up my mind to settle it once and for all." "I am glad you have come to that way of thinking," I said. "It will save us both an infinity of trouble.
And instead she seemed tacitly to take the truth of all his accusations for granted. "Don't you see," he presently went on, almost in a coaxing tone, "that it's for your own good that you should have to go away? I won't believe I can't that you like this underground, hole-and-corner existence, this life that is dishonest all through.
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