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"I dare say you would. You're as ready to take risks as I am," he added, with his characteristic pursing of the lips; "and 'pon my word, you're just as lucky! For I'm lucky, Burke; there's no doubt of it. That affair at Calcutta might have done for us but for the morning mist. I'd like to try myself. It would punish a set of rogues, and discourage interloping, to the benefit of the Company.
But the negroes hereditary servants of the Brudenells looked upon this stranger with jealous distrust, as an interloping foreigner who had, by some means or other, managed to dispossess and drive away the rightful family from the old place. And so they regarded all her favors as a species of bribery, and thanked her for none of them. And this was really not ingratitude, but fidelity.
I shall, of course, go to headquarters, wherever they may happen to be for the time; deliver my letters of introduction; learn as much of the noble art of war as may suffice a poor interloping amateur; and then take a glance at the sort of thing of which we read so much in the Gazette."
He believed The Powhatan himself now regretted that he had yielded to affection and to an ancient custom, and that he would gladly see his enemy dead, in order that the news carried to his interloping countrymen might serve as a warning of the fate that awaited them all. Suppose then the thought flashed through his brain that he, Claw-of-the-Eagle, should make this wish a fact!
And I should have thought that it was a little mortifying to Roger who must naturally have looked upon himself as his brother's heir to find a little interloping child, half French, half English, stepping into his shoes! 'You don't know how fond they are of him, the squire looks upon him as the apple of his eye. 'Molly! Molly! pray don't let me hear you using such vulgar expressions.
But really that she should be forsaken and neglected for this chit of a girl this interloping American it was too much! Reggie's wrath glowed within him. Meanwhile Manisty addressed Lucy. 'I have something I very much wish to say to you. There is a seat by the fountain, quite in shade. Will you try it? She glanced hurriedly at her companions.
If you've any influence with the young lady, perhaps you could put it to her, and get her to look at things in that light," Mr. Tulliver added, becoming quite obsequious as it dawned upon him that this interloping stranger might be able to do him a service. "I'll do my best for you, Tulliver," Mr. Nowell replied, in a patronising tone.
The poor man was thinking sadly of all these things amid the ringing of hammers and the heavy footsteps of the furniture-movers, when he heard an interloping, authoritative step behind him, and Monsieur Chebe appeared, little Monsieur Chebe, flushed and breathless, with flames darting from his eyes. He assumed, as always, a very high tone with his son-in-law. "What does this mean?
With still greater boldness, Montpellier enjoined all representatives everywhere to meet at the headquarters of their respective departments, and await the verdict of a national jury. In short, in accordance with the very democratic creed, "nothing was visible amid the ruins of the Convention," mutilated and degraded, but interloping "attorneys."
After the winter day, when, running down at a sudden noise, Friedel picked her up from the hearthstone, scorched, bruised, almost senseless, she accepted Christina's care with nothing worse than a snarl, and gradually seemed to forget the identity of her nurse with the interloping burgher girl.
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