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The government should suppress these eminently respectable gambling games. They have caused more sorrow, destitution and crime than all the cards and dice this side of the dark dominion of the devil. The horse-leech's daughters should be pulled off the body politic.
Like the horse-leech's daughters, they cry 'Give, give. I should not be the least surprised if a series of begging letters with the New York postmark reached Cedric at due intervals." "Oh, Mr. Herrick, what shall we do?" "Do why, put them in the fire unread. That will be my advice to Cedric. I know exactly the sort of letters that fellow will write.
"A limited number of clergymen received free of charge. "Largest discount to indigent students, one hundred dollars on the first course. "No deduction on the others. "Husband and wife, entered together, three hundred dollars. "Tuition for all strictly in advance." There it is the horse-leech's daughter alive again, after a three-century vacation.
"Members the Treasurer pressing to mob; Provinces urging the annual job; Districts whose motto is cash or commotion; Counties with thirsts which would drink up an ocean; These be the horse-leech's children which cry, 'Wanted, Expenditure! I must supply." The Premier's Puzzle. Sir George Grey had been curtly recalled in the early part of 1868.
How could papa possibly be free with two costly women on his back all the time?... Strange that she hadn't grasped all this clearly, the minute she had recognized herself as a horse-leech's daughter.... Now the first thing to do, obviously, was to get off papa's back at once. Her fifty thousand dollars would be a sound starter there; of course papa would take it, since she wanted him to so much.
"Isn't there," she asked, "something in the Bible about that? horse-leech's daughters or something? always crying 'Give, give'?..." There was a perceptible pause. "Well something of the sort, I believe...." She had seemed to have the greatest confidence that, if anything of the sort was in the Bible, this man would know it instantly. However, his tone caught her attention, and she raised her eyes.
Perhaps no girl in the world was less like the popular portrait of a fat horse-leech's daughter than this girl, Carlisle Heth. Surely no advance ever less resembled the charge of a hating prophet upon a Hun than this man's advance. Carlisle, to be sure, was never one to think in historical or Biblical terminology.
Maids, wives, and widows, pour out a stream of perpetual laudation. Men of rank, men of letters, men at home, and men abroad, unite in one common supplication for "London news" réchaufféed, spiced, and served up, by the perfect cuisinerie of George's art of story-telling; like the horse-leech's two daughters, the cry is, "Give, give." And this is what we wanted to see.
The trouble has been," said Cally, looking up at the old family enemy with no sense of hesitation or reluctance "I've always been too expensive, you see. I've never left him any money to carry out his plans...." She would not say anything about horse-leech's daughters, not, of all things, wanting to embarrass him to-day.
They too did much differ in their Theology, and each order of Friars seemed to hold the strong opinion that all who wore cowls cut in another shape than theirs, or shaved their pates differently, must Infallibly Burn; but they were of one Mind in tugging at Mr. Pinchin's Purse-strings, and their cry was ever that of the Horse-Leech's Three Daughters "Give, give!"
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