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"Why, madam," said Mr Hobson, "what I have seen of the world is this; there's nothing methodizes a man but business. If he's never so much upon the stilts, that's always a sure way to bring him down, by reason he soon finds there's nothing to be got by rhodomontading.
Flattery is like a bad perfume, nauseous and overpowering after the first waft, and hurtful as well as nauseous. But as luncheon is coming and we must go directly to the Admiralty to see Captain Beaufort, and then to the Carrs' no more rhodomontading to-day. To MRS. EDGEWORTH. NORTH AUDLEY STREET, Feb. 11, 1831. You must have seen in the papers the death of Mr. Hope, and I am sure it shocked you.
Zora began, "I have a fairly large fortune " He checked her with a gesture, and looked at her clear and full. "God bless you," he said. "My heart didn't lie to me at Monte Carlo when it told me that you were a great-souled woman. Tell me. Have you ever believed in the Cure in the sense that I believed in it?" Zora returned his gaze. Here was no rhodomontading. The man was grappling with realities.
Jean heard him out, and then, with the air of a lunatic-asylum keeper to a rhodomontading patient, told him "he was one fool, and his mother was another." First she took him up on the score of prudence. "You," said she, "are a beggarly painter, without a rap; Christie has houses, boats, nets, and money; you are in debt; she lays by money every week.
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