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They love to see others quail before them, as they themselves would be ready to quail before those they hold in awe; and it is no small set-off against their own terrors to feel themselves in turn objects of terror to others. People of this sort are of course generally cowards and toadies, and in bullying they find the fullest gratification of their craving for power.
So money, after all, is our only standard; and when a woman is as rich as you were yesterday she cannot hope for friends any more than the Queen of England can. You could have plenty of flatterers, toadies, sycophants anything, in fine, but friends." "I don't believe it," said Margaret, half angrily "not a word of it.
The officers then could not abide him, though some were submissive to him because of his father's position. So now, fifteen years afterward, although he has many toadies and flatterers, I doubt his having any real friends. Through all these score of years, I have yet to learn of any gracious or manly thing he has done."
The young man's analysis, while he brooded, put it at last very simply they were adventurers because they were toadies and snobs. That was the completest account of them it was the law of their being.
He may then stroll along under the pictured and statued colonnades, perhaps offering the cold shoulder to various impecunious toadies who are there on the look-out for an invitation to dinner, perhaps succumbing to their blandishments. His lackeys are of course in attendance, and clients are still about him.
"Scarce closed my eyes all night," snarled another. Another had been awakened by the barking of a dog, and it was full half an hour before he could lose the sense of luxurious ease in unconsciousness again. He made an incident of this, and looked round the table for sympathy, and obtained it, especially from such as were toadies. Now all these had slept as much as nature required.
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He told me much of Tennyson dwelling upon his morbid fear that people would stare at him. He also gave an account of his meeting with Ruskin at Venice, when Ruskin took Hunt to task for not having come to see him more frequently in London; to which Hunt replied that, for one reason, he was very busy, and that, for another, he did not wish to be classed with the toadies who swarmed about Ruskin.
Nor are Americans toadies or snobs; they are independent, self-reliant and self-respecting people. Mexico Guatemala Salvador Panama Colombia Venezuela Jamaica Cuba Fire in Amarillo Rebuilding.
Although he could not be said to have an indifference for money, he yet estimated it as a thing worth infinitely less than character; and every penny that he earned was honestly come by. He had no wife, * nor family, nor near relations to provide for, only himself in his old age. Not being thought rich, he was saved the annoyance of being haunted by toadies or pestered by parasites.
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