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She was sly enough to take books that had been on the shelves for a long while, and not to do all her business with one dealer: she would go first to one and then to another. The money which she scraped together in this way, as secretly and greedily as a jack-daw, she hid in the attic. There was a loose brick in the wall near the chimney. This she removed; and in time she removed other bricks.
English history from the beginning, with occasional glances at Continental affairs, European history for about a century, bits of economics, and the Politics of Aristotle! It is not education; it is a jack-daw collection....This sort of jumble has been the essentials of the more pretentious type of "higher education" available in Great Britain up to the present.
The most difficult cases were successfully managed by him; he had even saved the life of Agatha's jack-daw when it had swallowed a thimble. Mr Greenop was an object, therefore, of gratitude and admiration, and no visit to Dorminster was complete without going to his shop.
"You are right, then, indeed, to recommend to me my Lord Derford!" "O yes, he will make the prettiest husband in the world; you may fly about yourself as wild as a lark, and keep him the whole time as tame as a jack-daw: and though he may complain of you to your friends, he will never have the courage to find fault to your face.
But the littlest Jackdaw said, "It came true, and went away, because it was never intended for us." Now some days after this the old Jack-daw again came carrying something that shone like an evening star a little spike of gold with a burning emerald set in the end of it. "And what do you think of that?" said he to his wife. "I daren't come near it," she answered, "for fear it should burn me!"
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