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If you wish to enjoy a curious sight, you must watch the Toadeys when they are unembarrassed by the almost perpetual presence of their breeders; when they are animated by "the spirit of freedom;" when, like Curran's Negro, the chain bursts by the impulse of their swelling veins.
They are by no means characterised by that similarity of disposition for which your common observer gives them credit. There are Toadeys of all possible natures. There is your Common-place Toadey, who merely echoes its feeder's common-place observations.
Grey?" asked the Marchioness, as Vivian entered the breakfast-room. "Oh, yes! Mr. Grey, did you hear the shriek?" asked Miss Graves. "Who did not?" "What could it be?" said the Marchioness. "What could it be?" said Miss Graves. "What should it be; a cat in a gutter, or a sick cow, or a toad dying to be devoured, Miss Graves?" Always snub toadeys and led captains.
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