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He was a tuft-hunter and a toady, but he did not know that he was doing amiss in seeking to rise by tuft-hunting and toadying. He was both mean and vain, both a bully and a coward, and in politics, I fear, quite unscrupulous in spite of his grand dogmas; but he believed that he was progressing in public life by the proper and usual means, and was troubled by no idea that he did wrong.
But you can come to me after you've got through toadying Mr. King." "What is toding?" asked Phronsie. "Never mind; that hasn't anything to do with the business in hand," replied Mrs. Chatterton impatiently. "Now if you come to me every day, and give me as much time as you can, why, I'll show you what I want of you, and teach you many things.
Condiment herself spoke up, saying: "Lor, Major Warfield, sir, there were others deceived besides me, and as for myself, I never can think of the risk I've run without growing cold all over!" "Serves you right, mum, for your officiousness, and obsequiousness and toadying to precious Mr. Gray! serves you doubly right for famishing me at my own table!" "Uncle!" said Capitola, "'Honor bright!
"I suppose so." "In a ship of war?" "Yes I've heard that, too." "You'll take us down to the beach, won't you, dad?" "What! A free-born American citizen go toadying after the English aristocracy!" "But we'll need a cicérone, dad." "What for, I'd like to know?" "Oh, what are cicérones always for? To get us a good place, to be sure!"
To which Pemberton always replied: "Amusing the great Moreen troupe? What the boy couldn't get over was the fact that this particular blight seemed, in a tradition of self-respect, so undeserved and so arbitrary. No doubt people had a right to take the line they liked; but why should his people have liked the line of pushing and toadying and lying and cheating?
All seek official rank, and as all cannot render direct services, distinctions are sought by every possible means by flattering the Monarch and toadying the important personages." There was considerable truth in this complaint, but the voice of this solitary aristocrat was as of one crying in the wilderness.
The biggest thing I've had against him was not his knifing me but his apparent toadying to the rich and influential. But there's another side to that and I see it now. Some people have to be coddled, and though it goes against my grain to do it, I don't know why a man who can be diplomatic and winning, like Van Horn, hasn't his place just as much as a rough rider like me.
The toadying Raiders, who were perpetually hanging around the gate to get a chance to insinuate themselves into the favor of the Rebel officers, persuaded them that we were all so bitterly hostile to our Government for not exchanging us that if we were allowed to vote we would cast an overwhelming majority in favor of McClellan.
She gave Alice a cold nod, and the four girls who now formed the opposition left the house. "Good-by to all chance of my friendship with Gwin," said Jessie Forbes rather miserably as they walked up the avenue. "Oh, never mind, Jessie, you did the right thing," said Alice. "What is the good of toadying? I hate toadies.
"Upon my word I didn't know that anybody ever so accused me." "I didn't mean you and me personally." "Oh! I'm glad of that." "But that is what the world says of persons of our class. Now it seems to me that the toadying is all on the other side. The countess here does toady you, and so do the young ladies." "Do they? if so, upon my word I didn't know it.
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