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"It means that you haven't learned the lesson, you petty meddler, you don't understand it yourself, and yet you prompt your neighbor!" The class took no offense, but on the contrary many thought the epithet funny and laughed. Placido bit his lips. "What's your name?" the professor asked him. "Placido," was the curt reply. "Aha!
Lord Hartledon, on awaking in the morning, found he had a sore throat, and would not get up. Val did not dare show himself out of doors. Not from fear of arrest that day, but lest any officious meddler should point him out as the real Simon Pure, Percival Elster. But for these circumstances, the man with the writ could hardly have remained under the delusion, as he appeared at church himself.
And in those days also, before custom had hardened him, he was apt to be short with those devoid of any claim to intervene who thrust themselves into his affairs. Salutary as this doubtless was to the really ignorant meddler, there was one occasion, of which I learnt thirty years later, where at bottom the rebuke was not deserved.
It prefers, in fact, to manage its affairs on a profuse scale, receiving and spending after the magnificent fashion of the great, as long as there is anything left; should any person, however, add up the various items of its liabilities, and anxiously call its attention to the sum-total, he is certain to be regarded as an importunate meddler.
He perceived that this was no meddler, but a man speaking of something very near his heart; no presuming and interfering outsider who deserved a snub, but a man suffering from some deep and hidden cause. The doctor's secret was known to John long before he had finished what he had to say; but he listened attentively, and gave no sign that this was so.
"I hope, my dear young lady," said he with simple directness, "that you will not regard me as a stupid, interfering old meddler. God is my witness, I have your best interests at heart. You are too good and beautiful to " "I shall always look upon you as the kindest of men!" she cried impulsively, and left him.
Now that you are here, I'm going to keep you for a little while. Take off that absurd-looking tile and sit down." At this I grew angry. I wasn't responsible for the helmet I wore, and I had felt all along that I looked like an ass in it. "I'll do nothing of the sort, you confounded old meddler," I cried. "I've come here on invitation, and, if I've got into the wrong room, it isn't my fault.
We must have something to work on, you know." "What right have you to give advice, sir? You are not one of us. You are a meddler an impertinent alien. Your heart is not with Graustark, as mine is. How long must we endure the insolence of these Americans?" The count was fuming with anger. As might have been expected, the easy-going Yankees laughed unreservedly at his taunt.
It matters little by what name men call them, so long as they can throw shells truly into the enemy's battery, and this they do steadily. The "Meddler" cannot reply to them effectively, and other Boer guns try in vain to reach them. At night a curious palpitating light on the clouds southward attracts attention.
A meddler and intriguer during the Fronde, sceptical and bitter in his Maximes, the Duke of La Rochefoucauld was amiable and kindly in his private life. Factions and the court had taught him a great deal about human nature; he had seen it and judged of it from its bad side. Witty, shrewd, and often profound, he was too severe to be just.
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