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Updated: June 11, 2025
The doctor poised his cigarette midway to his lips and looked quickly across at Philip. "Possibly you belong to the Northwest Mounted Police," he suggested. "Yes." "Heavens," drawled the doctor again, "and you the son of a millionaire banker! What you doing it for?" "Fun," answered Philip, half laughing. "And I'm not getting it in sugar-coated pellet form either. Doctor.
Richard looked on with inward amusement and satisfaction at the unwonted sight of his grandfather partaking of a cup of steaming coffee rich with country cream, and eating with the appetite of a boy a huge, sugar-coated doughnut which his hostess assured him could not possibly hurt him. "They're the real old-fashioned kind, Mr. Kendrick," said she.
I am for the inverted sugar-coated quinine pill the bitter on the outside. Long time ago the gentlemen of the family had worn lace ruffles and carried tinless foils and owned plantations and had slaves to burn. But the war had greatly reduced their holdings. The two original American Carterets came over in that year, but by different means of transportation.
"Come back here, Tintoretto. Don't you touch that skinny little critter with the shakes. I wouldn't let you eat no such a sugar-coated insect." The crowd was enjoying the set-to of words immensely. They now looked to Parky for something hot. But the man of card-skill had little wit of words. "Don't git too funny, old boy," he cautioned. "I'd just as soon have you for breakfast as not."
She seemed to have formed a sudden attachment for Maurice; that is to say, she could not bear to lose sight of him, not for the briefest moment. He swallowed his chagrin, for he could but confess that it was sugar-coated. Madame had at last considered his case, and had labeled him dangerous. Somehow a man always likes to be properly valued. It re-establishes his good opinion of himself.
Of course the great army of readers prefer this sugar-coated natural history to the real thing, but the danger always is that an indulgence of this taste will take away a liking for the real thing, or prevent its development.
There is nothing of this sickish drug in the Parson's talk, nor was there in that of Jeremiah, I sometimes think there is scarcely enough of this wholesome tonic in modern society. The Parson says he never would give a child sugar-coated pills. Mandeville says he never would give them any. After all, you cannot help liking Mandeville. We were talking of this late news from Jerusalem.
That's where your eloquence will come in, and the more you believe in it while you're holding forth about the Republican party robbing the widow and orphan more particularly the farmer and the laborer the better. We'll promise the working-man a sort of sugar-coated socialism, but we won't inspire him with any higher ideals than pecuniary profits, if you please.
That I'd stay away a minute longer than I could help after this dear lady had arrived?... Ah, Miss Felicia! Just as magnificent and as young as ever. Still got that Marie Antoinette look about you you ought really " "Stop that nonsense, Holker, right away," she cried, advancing a step to greet him. "But it's all true, and " "Stop, I tell you; none of your sugar-coated lies.
Can you wonder that I positively hate Florrie all the time that I'm trying to grind out sugar-coated rhapsodies about her." "Why not give free play to your emotions, and be brutally abusive? An uncomplimentary refrain would have an instant success as a novelty if you were sufficiently outspoken."
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