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He never gave her any assistance in entertaining their numerous guests, yet always insisted that the house should be full for the shooting season. And being poor for a titled pair, they could not afford to entertain even a shoeblack, much less a crowd of hungry sportsmen and a horde of frivolous women, who required to be amused expensively. It was really too bad of Garvington.
Oh, my eye, there's a nob!" cried he, suddenly perceiving Hawkesbury, who all this time had been looking on and listening in bewilderment. "Shin'e boots next, cap'n? Oh my, ain't he a topper?" This last appeal was made to Jack, whose boots were now clean, and who, of course, did not reply. "Who's your friend?" said Hawkesbury to him, with a smile. "My friend's a shoeblack," drily replied Smith.
You, so well descended yourself so superior as man amongst men that you would have won name and position had you been born the son of a shoeblack, you would eternally despise the noble who, in days when all that we Bretons deem holy in noblesse are subjected to ridicule and contempt, should so vilely forget the only motto which the scutcheons of all gentilhommes have in common, 'Noblesse oblige. War, with all its perils and all its grandeur, war lifts on high the banners of France, war, in which every ancestor of mine whom I care to recall aggrandised the name that descends to me.
The world has created a state of things in which the shoeblack cannot do otherwise without showing an arrogance and impudence by which he could achieve nothing." "Which, too, would make him black his shoes very badly." "No doubt. That will have to come to pass any way, because the nobler employments to which he will be raised by the appreciating prince will cause him to drop his shoes."
Then, observing that his shoe was dusty, he submitted it to a merry-looking shoeblack, who not only cleaned it and creamed it to perfection but polished up his wooden leg as well; Austin, in his usual absent-minded way, humming to himself the while.
Be it a duke or a shoeblack, what do I care, hey? what do I care?" "O-o-oh!" sighed the gent who went by the name of Bill Tidd: a very pale young man, with a black riband round his neck instead of a handkerchief, and his collars turned down like Lord Byron. He was leaning against the mantelpiece, and with a pair of great green eyes ogling Miss Brough with all his might.
She takes an interest in Arab institutions, as I do.... Only imagine, Amelie, our shoeblack is said to be actually married; and so is his little brother, and they have one and the same bride! Two husbands to one wife, or half a wife apiece what do you think of that?" "I think it's quite enough to begin with. Remember, mon cher, they are only children."
"Most absurd," said the Marchioness, feeling herself to be encouraged; "most absurd, and abominable, and wicked. He is quite a revolutionist." "Not that, I think," said his lordship, who knew pretty well the nature of Hampstead's political feelings. "Indeed he is. Why, he encourages his sister! He would not mind her marrying a shoeblack if only he could debase his own family.
Around the latter's feet were gathered a motley crew the fine lady in her ball dress, the shoeblack, the crowned king, the red Indian in Fenimore Cooper feathers, the half-naked negro, the wasted, ragged mother with her babe, the jockey, the Syrian leper, and a score of other types of humans, including in the background a hairy-faced creature, the "dog-faced man" of Barnum's show.
I pointed to the burnous-enveloped Arabs sleeping on the parapet. "It's out of place in Cadogan Gardens." She laughed her low, rippling laugh. It was music very pleasant to hear after the somewhat shrill cachinnation of the Misses Bostock of South Shields. I was so pleased that I gave half a franc to a pestilential Arab shoeblack. "That was nice of you," she said.
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