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And this so commanding Poet, who was at the same time an aspiring courtier and meddler in affairs of state, and who chose, for some mysterious reason or other, to forego the honours which those who were in the secret of his literary abilities and successes, the very best judges of poetry in that time, too, were disposed to accord him, and we are not without references to cases in antiquity corresponding very nearly to this; and which seemed to furnish, at least, a sufficient precedent for this proceeding; this so successful poet, and courtier, and great man of his time, was already in a position to succeed at once to that chair of literary patronage which the death of Sir Philip Sidney had left vacant.
The confirmed meddler has one thing in her favor, that whatever the crisis of her own fortunes, there are always the affairs of other people to distract her thoughts. She dropped into a chair by the lamp and read the brief letter with breathless interest, too absorbed even to apologize. "Miss Persis Dale, "Clematis. "Dear Madam Yours of the 12th inst. received.
"I ask," he replied, "in order that the King's majesty may know that I am no forward fellow or busy body or impertinent meddler; and that I am innocent of their calumnious charges of overmuch talk; for I am he whose name is the Silent Man, and indeed peculiarly happy is my sobriquet, as saith the poet: When a nickname or little name men design, * Know that nature with name shall full oft combine."
civilized man has proceeded so far in his interference with extra-human nature, has produced for himself and the living organisms associated with him such a special state of things by his rebellion against natural selection and his defiance of Nature's pre-human dispositions, that he must either go on and acquire firmer control of the conditions, or perish miserably by the vengeance certain to fall on the half-hearted meddler in great affairs.
At length, however, the "Meddler" chimes in, and Captain Christie immediately looses off his two howitzers in succession. They cannot be laid by sights on the object aimed at, which is hidden from view. All has to be done by calculation of angles, and a fraction of error may make all the difference. So we watch anxiously while the shell a long time in flight follows its allotted parabola.
This he instantly suspected to be the Monterey, which must have taken a more westerly course than that which he had followed, and which he had therefore passed without sighting. The ex-Rackbird did not hesitate a moment as to what ought to be done. That everlastingly condemned meddler, Horn, must never be allowed to put his oar into this business.
Just return to him, with my compliments, and tell him I say he is a meddler and a fool!" "Annette," said Sandy, softly, coming toward her, "the doctor'll be wanting his coffee by now." "Let me pass," cried Carter, "you common hound! Take your foot off that step or I'll " He made a quick motion toward his hip, and Sandy caught his hand as it closed on a pearl-handled revolver. "None of that, man!
I tried to say that he should not do that whatever happened to me, but still I could not speak. "Mary. I want to help you. But I can only do so if you give me the right to do it. Nobody must tell me I'm a meddler, butting in where I have no business. There are people enough about you who would be only too ready to do that people related to you by blood and by law."
Otherwise your profit will be laughter and ridicule; for the Republican party can never hope to win under such equivocal leadership. That's all we have to say." Warrington, who had been reading the articles aloud, grinned and thrust the paper into his pocket. "What shall you do?" asked John curiously. "Do? Go into the fight tooth and nail. They dub me a meddler; I'll make the word good."
Still a third meddler had tried to make it over into a colonial homestead by painting the stucco white and joining on an enormous columned porch.
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