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"You will become a dependent in this house, a hanger-on, a sponger. I will hate you. You will hate yourself. It went through me like a knife when I found it out." I smoked my cigar in silence. I suppose she was quite right horribly right, though I didn't like her any better for being so plain-spoken about it. I felt myself turning red under her gaze. "What do you want me to do?" I said at length.
A loader fell and he also lay still. A third rifle shot, almost as quick as a flash, and a gunner went down, a fourth and a man at a wheel fell, a fifth and the unerring bullet claimed a sponger, a sixth and a Mexican just springing to cover was wounded in the shoulder.
We were now in an almost uninhabited region, where only an occasional fisherman or sponger is met; but as we pulled along the coast the day after our camp in the marshes, we were struck with the absence of any sign of the presence of man.
The perceptions on which other arts are based frequently remain unemployed by their owner for days, nights, months, or years, without his art's perishing; whereas, if those of the sponger were to miss their daily exercise, not merely his art would perish, but he with it. There remains the 'useful purpose in human life'; it would take a madman to question that here.
"What's this? I thought we'd got the fastest boat in the harbour." "It's the Susan B., sponger," said the Captain. The Captain was a man of few words. The Susan B. was a rakish-looking craft with a black hull, and she certainly could sail.
Getting your dinner at some one else's expense. Si. Dining out, in fact? Tyc. Yes. Si. And we may call a sponger an out-diner? Tyc. The gravamen's in that; he should dine at home. Si. A few more answers, please. Of these pairs, which do you consider the best? Which would you take, if you had the choice?-To sail, or to out-sail? Tyc. The latter. Si. To run or out-run? Tyc. The latter. Si.
"Didn't I tell ye!" ejaculated Peke, triumphantly looking round at Helmsley. "She's one that's got 'er 'art in the right place! I say, Miss Tranter, beggin' yer parding, my friend aint a sponger, ye know! 'E can pay ye a shillin' or two for yer trouble!" Miss Tranter nodded her head carelessly. "The food's threepence and the bed fourpence," she said.
Yes, you have proved him a good man; but can you show him to have been not Achilles's friend, but a sponger? Si. I will produce you his own statement to that effect. Tyc. What a miracle-worker you are! Si. Listen to the lines, then: Achilles, lay my bones not far from thine; Thou and thine fed me; let me lie by thee.
Accordingly Homer uses the same word of Meriones's relation to Idomeneus. And by the way it is not Idomeneus, though he was son of Zeus, that he describes as 'peer of Ares'; it is the sponger Meriones. Again, did not Aristogiton, poor and of mean extraction, as Thucydides describes him, sponge on Harmodius? He was also, of course, in love with him a quite natural relation between the two classes.
Many were the thoughts which crowded into his mind as he sat there. A deep affection for the old man had sprung up in his heart. To him he was like some superior being with his great strength and wonderful knowledge. Then to think he should care for him, Dan Flitter, so small, who could neither read nor write, who was nothing but a sponger.
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