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The conservative effect of ownership operates with as much force on the man with a hundred dollars in an old stocking as on his neighbor with a million in the funds. During the Roman Revolution of '48, the beggars who had funded their gains were among the stanchest reactionaries, and left Rome with the nobility.
Alice Haskett's remarriage with Gus Varick was a passport to the set whose recognition she coveted, and for a few years the Varicks were the most popular couple in town. Unfortunately the alliance was brief and stormy, and this time the husband had his champions. Still, even Varick's stanchest supporters admitted that he was not meant for matrimony, and Mrs.
About Christmas time, 1859, however, a number of his stanchest Illinois friends urged him to let them use his name, and he consented, not so much in the hope of being chosen, as of perhaps receiving the nomination for Vice-President, or at least of making a show of strength that would aid him at some future time to become senator.
But he perceived that his mother was once more becoming restless, under the general inconvenance of it; and he had noticed distress and disapproval in the little Dean, Kitty's stanchest friend. Luckily, no difficulty there! The lad was almost as devoted to him Ashe as he was to Kitty.
On making his escape he rallied his remaining followers round him for a final effort, and on the advice of his mother, Ogelen Eke, who was his principal adviser and stanchest supporter, he divided his forces into thirteen regiments of one thousand men each, and confined his attention to the defense of his own territory.
Even at the Point she had never seen more beautiful dancing. Even when her stanchest friend, Mrs. Blake, pounced upon her with fond, anxious, welcoming words, and Mrs.
One of his stanchest allies in the Commons was a candidate for a peerage; another suddenly remembered that he was second cousin to the premier.
The general will get sick of living among thieves. Did you know that that Shopman called me a thief, me! son of the stanchest and most incorruptible of republicans; me! the son in law of Mouchon, that famous representative of the people, who died without leaving me enough to bury him?"
Besides, it was certain Antony's stanchest friends made no attempt to conceal the fact that the Queen's presence with the army exerted a disturbing influence, and could not fail to curb the daring courage of the brave general.
Clara Pemberton invited a select few of her friends, all holding the stanchest faith in Edward's genius, and therefore the most genial auditors, if not altogether the fairest critics, that a writer could possibly desire. Blessed be woman for her faculty of admiration, and especially for her tendency to admire with her heart, when man, at most, grants merely a cold approval with his mind!
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