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It was sudden: and Martin old and stiff in more ways than one "No, thank you, dame. I have got used to out o' doors. And I love not changing and changing. I meddle wi' nobody here; and nobody meddles wi' me." "Oh, you nasty, cross old wretch!" screamed Catherine, passing in a moment from treacle to sharpest vinegar. And she flounced back into the house. On calm reflection she had a little cry.
Lili Estradina's taunt flashed through her and she seized on it. "People have told me so his own relations have. I've never stooped to spy on him...." "And the women in your set I suppose it's taken for granted they all do the same?" She laughed. "Everything fixed up for them, same as it is for the husbands, eh? Nobody meddles or makes trouble if you know the ropes?"
He charmed all those who met him, helped many a stranded war worker, and was superb when he unveiled a monument. He did not understand that the power of the expert depends upon separating himself from those who make the decisions, upon not caring, in his expert self, what decision is made. The man who, like the ambassador, takes a line, and meddles with the decision, is soon discounted.
He is very fair, and as long as no one meddles with him he won't do amiss. I can't hold my tongue always, but I often know that it is better that I should." Dr Tempest said not a word to any one on the subject, not even in his own defence. And yet he was sorely tempted.
To the flower-lover it is the yucca; to the cultivator, or whosoever meddles with its leaves, it is the Spanish-bayonet; to the utilitarian, who values a thing only as it is of use to him, it is the soap-weed ignoble name, referring to certain qualities pertaining to its roots.
"But I've got somethin' else to say," she continued, adjusting her feet more comfortably. "I ain't goin' to turn anybody out into the snow, such a night as this. You're welcome to stay, but I want to know what brought ye here. I ain't one o' them that meddles an' makes, an' if you 'ain't done nothin' out o' the way, an' I ain't called on for a witness, you needn't be afraid o' my tellin'."
"He was at the plantation this morning, but he'll be here to-morrow, because I wired him to come. I've just got to have him for awhile, business or no business." "You did me a favor, then. I want to see him, too." "Anything very particular?" "Politics." "How silly! You know very well he never meddles with politics, thank goodness! He thinks he has something better to do."
"And you approved?" "Certes; and, sooth to say, I brought him to that modest opinion of his own capacities. What is more still, I propose to join him at Calais." "George!" "Look not so scared, O valiant captain, who never lost a battle, where the Church meddles, all prospers. Listen!" And the young prelate gathered himself up from his listless posture, and spoke with earnest unction.
"All I blame Rem for is, that he asked you to marry him. So much for that! I hope if he meddles with women again, he will seek an all-round common-sense Dutch girl, who will know how to direct her letters or else be content with one lover." "Arenta, I shall go now. I have given you an opportunity to be rude and unkind. You cannot expect me to do that again."
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