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Updated: June 5, 2025
Not that I need mind owing a trifle at the shops; half the women run accounts; but it's embarrassing not to have ready money. Why, I have to buy things to ward off gifts; Meg simply won't see me go without. Perhaps I'm depressed too, because to-day has been a succession of petty squabbles, and I hate squabbling. This morning came Aunt Frank.
Difference of sex gave point to many of these nursery squabbles, as it so often does to domestic broils. "Boys never will do what they're asked," Polly would complain. "Girls ask such unreasonable things," was Harry's retort. "Not half so unreasonable as the things you ask." "Ah! that's a different thing! Women have got to do what men tell them, whether it's reasonable or not."
"Your first night is the night of the fifteenth of next month?" "It is, signore," she replied, abashed to find herself speaking with him who had so moved her. "There is no likelihood of a postponement?" "I am certain, signore, that I shall be ready." "There are no squabbles of any serious kind among the singers?" A soft dimple played for a moment on her lips. "I have heard something."
As for Khema, where are the hussy's manners to go and disturb you when you are engaged? Anyhow, Chota Rani, don't you worry yourself with these domestic squabbles. Leave them to me, and return to your friend." How suddenly the wind in the sails of our mind veers round!
The Normans strode on in front, led by Célestin Duclos, a tall young fellow, sturdy and waggish, who served as a captain for the others every time they set forth on land. He divined the places worth visiting, found out by-ways after a fashion of his own, and did not take much part in the squabbles so frequent among sailors in seaport towns. But, once he was caught in one, he was afraid of nobody.
One-half of this came from inexperience much as the puppy squabbles with the corner of the hearth-rug and the other half from the dizziness bred by stumbling out of his quiet life into the glare and excitement of a livelier one. No one told him about the soap and the blacking because an average man takes it for granted that an average man is ordinarily careful in regard to them.
It may well be asked how one could expect the military affairs of France to prosper when they were subordinated to such wretched squabbles.
"No dear, you know she can't, and she is very generous, even if she is tiresome. She has often been very helpful to you. You ought to be grateful." "I'm not grateful," he said, striding about the room; "and then she is so petty, always these absurd squabbles. She hasn't got a spark of love for God or man. That's at the root of it all. We don't want a person of that sort here.
"I cannot think patiently of such petty squabbles, while Bonaparte is grasping the nations; while he is surrounding France, not with that iron frontier, for which the wish and childish ambition of Louis XIV. was so eager, but with kingdoms of his own creation; securing the gratitude of higher minds as the hostage, and the fears of others as pledges for his safety.
The old commercial jealousy between the two rival merchant nations, which had been lulled in 1662 by a formal treaty of peace, but which still lived on in petty squabbles at sea, was embittered by the cession of Bombay a port which gave England an entry into the profitable trade with India as well as by the establishment of a West Indian Company in London which opened a traffic with the Gold Coast of Africa, and brought back from Guinea the gold from which our first "guineas" were struck.
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