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And its Yankee equivalent is "sucker." The French, as the world knows, are a kindly, forgiving people; and though they cast the epithet, they do so in manner tolerant and with light arpeggio of Yankee sneer and bitterness containing not a trace. They cast it as one casts a coin into the hand of some maundering beggar, with commingled oh-wells and philosophical pity.
Jane observed him listening, and by degrees she distinguished a maundering of the Italian song she had one day sung to Patrick in his brother's presence. 'I remember your singing that the week before I went to India, said Philip, and her scarlet blush flooded her face. 'Can you endure the noise? she asked him. 'Con would say it shrieks "murder." But I used to like it once. Mrs.
With a face unnaturally white he leaned forward, clutching the edge of the long oval table, and stared between the silver candelabra down the broken ranks of his guests Mr. Silk, purple of face as his patron was pale; Ned Manley, maundering the tag of a chorus; Captain St.
Ye little rin-there-out deil that ye are, what takes you raking through the gutters to see folk hangit? how wad ye like when it comes to be your ain chance, as I winna ensure ye, if ye dinna mend your manners? And what are ye maundering and greeting for, as if a word were breaking your banes?
The city itself aspires. Since the great days when men set out to build a tower the top of which should reach unto heaven, there has never been such aspiration anywhere in the world. Look at the Woolworth Building." I was maundering and I knew it Mrs.
What does anything matter to the mass of mankind but a little ease, a little lightening of pressure on this side or on that? Meanwhile the old man went maundering on, talking of the weather, and of his sick child, and 'Mr. Elsmere, with a kind of listless incoherence which hardly demanded an answer, though Langham threw in a word or two here and there.
What must a young man be, thought she, who could prefer maundering among laurel trees with a wishy-washy school-girl to such fun as this? "Well," said she aloud to herself, "one man can take a horse to water, but a thousand can't make him drink. There it is. If they haven't the spirit to enjoy it, the fault shan't be mine;" and so she returned to the house.
Lydia went on stripping little chords from the strings while she answered him in lofty accents. "Keys?" she says. "What keys? What is the man talking of? Oh, you mean that silly old trunk! Are you really still maundering about that? Of course the keys aren't there! I took them out when I opened it to-day. I thought you wanted them taken out.
One might in a moment of sweet maundering imagine Nature hiding those sunless dew-drops of the mines in the darkness of a sweet sorrow that the youth of the morning must be so evanescent. The whole world lay before Richard his inheritance. The sunlight gave it him, a gift from the height of his heaven.
"And let us get on a little faster," said Blondet; "you are maundering." "Isaure," continued Bixiou, looking askance at Blondet, "wore a simple white crepe dress with green ribbons; she had a camellia in her hair, a camellia at her waist, another camellia at her skirt-hem, and a camellia " "Come, now! here comes Sancho's three hundred goats." "Therein lies all literature, dear boy.
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