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Thou wouldst make far more money in secret service. It would be easy to change thy name. Keep thy descent quiet, and be ready to eat humble-pie for a short time. There is no saying to what thou mightest rise in this world." "And the other?" Delecresse felt himself an unfledged cherub by the side of Sir Piers. "Bah!" Sir Piers snapped his fingers. "What do such as we know about that?
Not a muscle of Grant's face changed under their eager and cruel scrutiny. "No, I didn't," he returned quietly. "But why did she run away? Did the father object to Fletcher? If I remember rightly he was rich and a good match." "Yes, but I reckon the old man hadn't quite got over the 'Clarion' abuse, for all its eating humble-pie and taking back its yarns of him.
They'll soon be eating humble-pie, and begging England's pardon for wrongful treatment of a British subject, won't they, Eric?" "I'm afraid there's no question of jumping at conclusions on the part of the authorities, or of eating humble-pie," Uncle Eric said. "The evidence entirely circumstantial so far, luckily is dead against Ivor.
Minver," I said. Then she showed that she was proud of it, though she had called him silly. "Have you told," she demanded of her husband, "how oddly your memory behaved about the subject of the picture, too?" "I have again eaten that particular piece of humble-pie," Minver's brother replied.
Somewhere in life's feast the course of humble-pie must always come in; and if I did not wholly relish this, bit of it, I dare say it was good for me, and I digested it perfectly.
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