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He was also a leader of city missions, ragged schools, shoe-black brigades, and other organizations to benefit the submerged classes in London. He once invited all the thieves in London to meet him privately in a certain hall, and there pleaded with them to abandon their wretched occupation, and promised to aid those who desired to reform.
A recent writer relates that he found the near relation of a nobleman gaining a scanty livelihood as shoe-black at the diggings. Query. Might not this be Mr. 'Then everything is settled? asked his father. 'Almost everything. The mines are off our hands, and the transfer will be completed as soon as Oliver has sent his signature; and there's quite enough saved to make them very comfortable.
There's the shoe-black business, then. Bill. That ain't so bad, acause you can shoulder your box and trudge. But if it's all the same to you, Mattie, I'd rayther enj'y life: they say it's short. Mat. But it ain't the same to me. It's so bad for you to be idle, Bill! Bill. Not as I knows on. I'm tollable jolly, so long's I gets the browns for my bed. Mat.
Paris was formerly the home of most of the learned Poodles, and one remembers the instance of the Poodle of the Pont Neuf, who had the habit of dirtying the boots of the passers-by in order that his master a shoe-black stationed half-way across the bridge might enjoy the profit of cleaning them.
"'They told me it was a shoe-black, said the princess. "'So I am, said the prince. 'I blacked your little boots three times a day, because they were all I could get of you. Put me in. "The courtiers did not resent his bluntness, except by saying to each other, that he was taking it out in impudence. "But how was he to be put in? The golden plate contained no instructions on this point.
Eric respectfully insisted. "Allow me to mention to your Royal Highness my various situations past, present, and future." "What did oo begin wiz?" Bruno asked, beginning to enter into the jest. "Was oo a shoe-black?" "Lower than that, your Royal Highness! Years ago, I offered myself as a Slave as a 'Confidential Slave, I think it's called?" he asked, turning to Lady Muriel.
"Then let the boy pay you!" said Marway. The shoe-black went into a sudden rage, caught up one of his brushes, and flung it at Marway as he turned. It struck him on the side of the head. Marway swore, stalked up to Clare and knocked him down, then strode away with a grin. The shoe-black sent his second brush whizzing past his ear, but he took no notice.
But such was Brougham's love of work long become a habit that no amount of application seems to have been too great for him; and such was his love of excellence, that it has been said of him that if his station in life had been only that of a shoe-black, he would never have rested satisfied until he had become the best shoe-black in England.
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