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It is M. Daniels who found the funds for the new company in which the master is engaged, and he manages the house to leave the master all his time to go on inventing and entertaining the grand folks we have to dinner." "Mr. Daniels! not the old Jew who played that queer straight trumpet at Munich " "Yes, the turkophone!
It is to him that the chancellor goes when he desires to raise a loan among the Flemings, and he always manages it without difficulty, he himself, as they say, contributing no small share of it. He is one who may be a good friend to you indeed, and who, should fortune take you to the Low Country, could recommend you to the greatest merchants there." "He will be out there himself, father.
Cambon, accordingly, in spite of the Jacobins, retains in his bureaux all whom he can among veteran officials. If Carnot manages the war well, it is owing to his being himself an educated officer and to maintaining in their positions d'Arcon, d'Obenheim, de Grimoard, de Montalembert and Marescot, all eminent men bequeathed to him by the ancient regime.
'Lord Feltre might show you the "leanness of Philosophy"; you would learn from hearing him: "an old gnawed bone for the dog that chooses to be no better than a dog." 'The vertiginous roast haunch is recommended, Gower said. 'See a higher than your own head, good sir. But, hang the man! he manages to hit on the thing he wants. Fleetwood set his face at Gower with cutting heartiness.
'Since boxing is a manly game And Britain's recreation, By boxing we will raise our fame 'Bove every other nation. "Remember this, Barnabas, when a woman sets her mind on anything, I've noticed as she generally manages to get it, one way or t' other. So I wouldn't be too sure, if I was you." Saying which, he nodded to John, above his son's drooping head, winked, and went silently out of the room.
"Of course you mean the Cæsar; well, I'm quite of your way of thinking, though Sir Gervaise manages never to be in a slow ship. I suppose you know, Stowel, that Monsieur de Vervillin is out, and that we may expect to see or hear something of him, to-morrow."
A majority of men are usefully employed because they must work to live. If we all had our way we should do as we chose, and there would be no progress. Fortunately, the wisdom of Providence keeps the great majority of men poor and usefully busy. This writer asked an able business man, who manages the material success of a great newspaper, what he would do if he had a million dollars.
The explanation is that he, like so many of his colleagues, though recognising personally that labour among "modern nations" depends for its higher productivity on the picked men who direct it, cannot bring himself to renounce, when he is making his appeal to the masses, the old doctrine that they are the sole producers; and accordingly having started with the ostentatious admission that directive ability is as essential to production as labour is, he endeavours by his verbal jugglery with the case of a printed book to convey the impression that labour produces all values after all; and he actually manages to wind up with a repetition of the old Marxian moral that the profits of ability mean nothing but labour which has not been paid for.
To what extent this tiny soaker is possessed of such a beak may be inferred from the amount of moisture with which he manages to inundate himself, which has all been withdrawn from the stem upon which he has fastened himself, and finally exuded from the pores of his body. This is the spume-bearer, Aprophora, in his first or larval estate, which continues for a few weeks only.
"I am not the dandy I was, Pen," he says bitterly. A little voice is heard crying overhead and giving a kind of gasp the wretched father stops in some indifferent speech he was trying to make. "I can't help myself," he groans out; "my wife is so ill, she can't attend to the child. Mrs. Mackenzie manages the house for me and here! Tommy, Tommy! papa is coming!"
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