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My old cronies, fellows not half so clever as I am, are all doing well. There's Tom Stevens, my very fag at Eton snivelling little dog he was too! just made under-secretary of state. Pearson, whose longs and shorts I always wrote, is now head-master to the human longs and shorts of a public school editing Greek plays, and booked for a bishopric.
In the yard, was the insolvent whose utmost energies were always set on getting into debt, who broke into prison with as much pains as other men have broken out of it, and who was always being cleared and complimented; while the insolvent at his elbow a mere little, snivelling, striving tradesman, half dead of anxious efforts to keep out of debt found it a hard matter, indeed, to get a Commissioner to release him with much reproof and reproach.
I told Noel to be a man and not a snivelling pig, and at last he said he had not made up his mind whether he would print his poetry in a book and sell it, or find a princess and marry her. 'Whichever it is, he added, 'none of you shall want for anything, though Oswald did kick me, and say I was a snivelling pig.
Yes; he had been working himself up to this for a year or more, and now he was going to do it. To-day he would show what he was made of whether he was a snivelling child, or a man that could stand up to any dressing-gown in the world. He was shaving for the first time quite true. And the reason was that it was no ordinary day, but a great occasion.
"As you please; but I must be off, for that little scoundrel T , threatened me with a visit to-morrow morning as I got out of the chaise, and I am aware that he will not come without a companion or two." "T ! What T ? your friend T ! that you brought from Dublin with you, and who professes so much admiration and esteem your own factotum?" "Yes, my own factotum snivelling little scoundrel.
All three took snuff, and had long ceased to repress the habit of snivelling or to remove the brown blotches which strewed the frills of their dingy shirts and the yellowing creases of their crumpled collars. Their flabby cravats were twisted into ropes as soon as they wound them about their throats.
For my part, I am always glad to do an ill-turn to that snivelling friar, my nephew, and the more so when I can seriously oblige a friend; and, as you have perhaps guessed, the Duke dares not ask for your return while I show a fancy for your company.
"I'm downright shamed, that I am," were the words of the big signalman when he had stopped crying; "snivelling like a kid." Then suddenly he seemed to get cross. "And what was you doing up here, anyway?" he said; "you know it ain't allowed." "Yes," said Phyllis, "we knew it was wrong but I wasn't afraid of doing wrong, and so it turned out right. You aren't sorry we came."
Her 'Mathilda' is a snivelling, insufferable affair. You remember that delightful soliloquy when she addresses the purse 'Poor little thing, I kissed you a moment ago'? Well! she declaims it like a school-girl who has learnt a complimentary greeting. It's so vexatious!" "And what about Madame de Guiraud?" he asked, as he drew his chair closer and took her hand. "Oh! she is perfection.
If not, old Mother Jardine will soon enlighten her. And then oh, my revered Hal, can you doubt what her first move will be? To reconcile us, my boy, as if we were two dirty little snivelling urchins in her village school at home! Will she make us shake hands? Oh, ain't it glorious!" He dropped into his chair, helpless with laughter, while Gerrard surveyed him with distaste.
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