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Updated: May 22, 2025
'We had hardly arrived for our week's leave, when the wretched War Office wired him to come back. He went this morning, and I wanted to go too, but I'm not to racket just now. Cicely blushed, and Hester, smiling, pressed her hand. 'Then you're not going to Rome? 'Certainly I am! But one has to give occasional sops to the domestic tyrant.
There were also roast capons, a heron, and chickens dressed in various ways. Near Amphillis stood a dish of beef jelly, a chowet or liver-pie, a flampoynt or pork-pie, and a dish of sops in fennel. The sweets were Barlee and Mon Amy, of which the first was rice cream, and the second a preparation of curds and cream.
About two in the morning, the starry sky or so it seemed, for the drowsy watchman had not observed the approach of any cloud brimmed over in a deluge; and for three days it rained without remission. The islet was a sponge, the castaways sops; the view all gone, even the reef concealed behind the curtain of the falling water.
But he knew, also, how and when to give in. When he saw the wall shaking and crumbling irretrievably at a particular place, he patched it up with sops of cash from his three cash-earning companies. If the banks went, he went too. It was a case of their having to hold out. If they smashed and all the collateral they held of his was thrown on the chaotic market, it would be the end.
Needless to add that this device a sample of the petty sops by which successive generations of English statesmen, Whigs and Tories alike, have sought to win over a priesthood which uses and laughs at them failed as completely as its predecessors to settle the University question or to range the bishops on the side of the Government.
"Yes'm," cried Polly, picking up the tub, and giving two or three quick sops to the floor. "Here you are, Pussy," grasping Phronsie, crying as she was, and carrying her into the bedroom. "Oh, dear," wailed the child, still holding the wet dish towel; "I won't ever do it again, if you'll only let me do 'em all to-morrow."
I like gentlemen; I don't like a party that attacks everything, and beats up the mob for power, and repays it with sops, and is dragging us down from all we were proud of. 'But the country is growing, the country wants expansion, said Beauchamp; 'and if your gentlemen by birth are not up to the mark, you must have leaders that are.
That experience and a close observation for many years have taught me that the secular papers of the United States, with a few exceptions, are almost as much under the control of the Pontiff as the press of Austria. Nor is it the secular press alone which is thus controlled. There are religions papers who throw "sops to Cerebus," as an offset to teachings demanded by Protestant readers.
Voting into power either of the old political parties, it then humbly begged a few crumbs of legislation from them, only to have a few sops thrown to it, or to receive contemptuous kicks and humiliations, and, if it grew too importunate or aggressive, insults backed with the strong might of judicial, police and military power.
"We have convicted the wretch," he said presently. "The wretches," I amended. The use of the plural smote him in the face. "This is awful," he groaned. "Why, when you were away last summer, and I broke my leg, she nursed me like a mother." "Women throw such sops to a barking conscience." I was positive now that Laban had stolen the steers, and that his wife was privy to the theft.
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