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She simply toyed with her big gold-chain purse, or fingered her dozen piles or so of plaques in a manner quite disinterested. She heard the croupier announce the winning number and saw the rakes at work dragging in the stakes to swell the bank. But she only smiled, and now and then shrugged her shoulders.
These gullies, made by the hand of man, are again divided by causeways, along which the laborers pass, armed with long rakes, with which they drag this scum to the bank, heaping it on platforms placed at equal distances when the salt is fit to handle.
It would signify less if he had only to submit to the impertinence of the idle; but, as soon as a man has had the misfortune to make himself a name, he becomes public property. Every one rakes into his life, relates his most trivial actions, and insults his feelings; he becomes like those walls, which every passer-by may deface with some abusive writing.
"No gentleman will take her if she does not mend her ways," Lord Twemlow said, hotly; "and with all these country rakes about her she will slip as more decently bred girls have. All eyes are set upon her, waiting for it. She has so drawn every gaze upon her, that her scandal will set ablaze a light that will flame like a beacon-fire from a hill-top. She will repent her bitterly enough then.
"Sociable! yes, one ought to be sociable certainly. But I am always afraid of the sociability of young men without ladies. Do not be angry with me if I venture as a friend to ask you not to be too sociable." "I know what you mean, Lady Desmond. People have been accusing us of of being rakes. Isn't that it?" "Yes, Mr. Fitzgerald, that is it.
Upon first being summoned to surrender the robbers responded by a hail-storm of bullets from their revolvers, followed instantly by a charge of bowie knives. This was met by an avalanche of blows from pick-axes, pokers, pitchforks, sledge-hammers, spades and rakes, beneath which the miscreants were quickly beaten down and overwhelmed.
Haying time at the old farm generally began on the Monday after the Fourth of July and lasted from four to six weeks, according to the weather, which is often fitful in Maine. We usually harvested from seventy to seventy-five tons, and in the days of scythes and hand rakes that meant that we had to do a good deal of hard, hot, sweaty work.
I felt that I must either obtain possession of her or tell her father not to send her into my room any more. The Turin Jewess had given me some valuable hints as to the conduct of amours with Jewish girls. My theory was that Leah would be more easily won than she, for at Ancona there was much more liberty than at Turin. This was a rake's reasoning, but even rakes are mistaken sometimes.
"You cannot get in at this hour," returned the man. "This is no thieves' tavern, for mohocks and night rakes and organ-grinders." "Brute!" cried Elvira, for the organ-grinders touched her home. "Then I demand my baggage," said Leon, with unabated dignity. "I know nothing of your baggage," replied the landlord. "You detain my baggage? You dare to detain my baggage?" cried the singer.
These were more ready to report. But she would not and could not believe what she was told. He had surely not degraded himself into being one of a succession of moneyed rakes. It was clear to her that, in order to soothe her grief, people slandered the woman and him with her. In order to watch her secretly, she veiled heavily and drove to the theatre where Madame Nelson was singing.
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