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Updated: June 10, 2025
In every other European country, however, able men are encouraged to talk; in England alone they are discouraged. People in society use a debased jargon or slang, snobbish shibboleths for the most part, and the majority resent any one man monopolising attention.
"Somebody might see us." "Let them. It's no crime to stroll down to the beach." "Somebody might object to my monopolising you like this." "Who, Mona?" "No; not Mona." "Who, then?" "Is there no one who might justly do so?" "No, indeed! Unless Mrs. Parsons thinks I'm neglecting her." "Nonsense. I don't mean her. But, what about Miss Dow?" "Daisy Dow!
He jokes without difficulty; talks without in the least monopolising the conversation; shows himself often willing to live and let live; and is on the whole as different a person as possible from the Macaulay who is sure that "every schoolboy" knows better than the author he is reviewing, and who finds Johnson guilty of superstition and Swift of apostasy.
They all three trudged along together, dragging their heels over the footways and monopolising their whole breadth so as to force others to step down into the road.
Dysart had always led in everything; taken what he chose without considering Grandcourt sometimes out of sheer perversity, he had taken what Grandcourt wanted not really wanting it himself as in the case of Rosalie Dene. "What are you talking about resenting? my monopolising your dinner partner?" asked Dysart, smiling. "Take her; amuse yourself. I don't want her."
In the smoking-room there was a tall dark man with a moustache, in an ulster coat, who had got the best place and was monopolising most of the talk; and, as I came in, a whisper came round to me from both sides, that this was the manager of a London theatre. The presence of such a man was a great event for Keswick, and I must own that the manager showed himself equal to his position.
What, after all, had she done for that innocent whom she had made her friend? She had taken everything from her. She had promised to keep her place for her at St. Sidwell's and was monopolising it herself. Worse than that, she had given her a friend with one hand and snatched him from her with the other.
Young as they are, I find frequent reason to be jealous of them, but artifice alone can prevent them monopolising the time of an adorable being of whose society I cannot possibly have too much.
As a rule, if his inventions are to be of any use to the world, the inventor must ally himself with men of another type, and these are the very men whom the author of "The Gospel for To-day" conceives of as simply monopolising and "working for all they are worth" contrivances which would otherwise have been given to the world gratis.
This gained for the young man Meg's hearty approval almost as much as his bashfulness and native good looks. What Meg Kissock did not know was that Ralph was altogether unconscious of the wound in his hand. It was a deeper wound which was at that time monopolising his thoughts.
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