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"Do people dislike young Minafer generally?" "I don't know about 'generally. I guess he gets plenty of toadying; but there's certainly a lot of people that are glad to express their opinions about him." "What's the matter with him?" "Too much Amberson, I suppose, for one thing. And for another, his mother just fell down and worshipped him from the day he was born That's what beats me!
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!
Oftentimes the house was filled, and the family would not turn away a guest of less rank for the sake of one of higher distinction, though that unsocial practice was frequently followed by persons who forgot their self-respect in toadying to rank.
There is always to be found men who swell their importance by toadying men of character and eminence. Such are as frequently found in Cincinnati as elsewhere. One of these had sought out Prentiss, and was attempting to make himself agreeable to him by abusing Foote: this abuse wound up by denouncing the distinguished Mississippian as a dog.
But a merely rich man couldn't rise in their set any more than a merely gifted man. He could get on to a certain point by toadying, and some do; but he would never get to be popular, like Dan Mavering." "And what makes him popular? to go back to the point we started from," said Mrs. Pasmer. "Ah, that's hard to say. It's quality, I suppose. I don't mean social quality, exactly; but personal charm.
I was once, at Tautira, a pig- master on a considerable scale; at first, in my pen, the utmost good feeling prevailed; a little sow with a belly-ache came and appealed to us for help in the manner of a child; and there was one shapely black boar, whom we called Catholicus, for he was a particular present from the Catholics of the village, and who early displayed the marks of courage and friendliness; no other animal, whether dog or pig, was suffered to approach him at his food, and for human beings he showed a full measure of that toadying fondness so common in the lower animals, and possibly their chief title to the name.
On the first page of this album one of the toadying parasites of this Lady Bountiful had inscribed the following lines: 'Dans ces beaux lieux, ou regne l'allegresse Ce temple fut ouvert par la Beaute; De vos seigneurs admirez la tendresse Bons habitants de Krasnogorie! while another gentleman had written below: 'Et moi aussi j'aime la nature!
"Of course not," he said, "but do you think I can afford to have a lot of loose fellows black-guarding me at home because I wouldn't let them have a sovereign or so over here?" There was no lack of independence, however, about him. The benefit which he gave Mrs. Jefferson Davis in New Orleans, which was denounced at the North as toadying to the Rebels, proceeded from a wholly different motive.
The clergyman of her own parish, a man, who by all accepted rule and precedent ought to have been after her at once, asking for subscriptions to this fund and that fund, toadying her for her position, and begging for her name and support, had not even noticed her absence from divine service on Sundays! She did not know whether to be relieved or dissatisfied.
Not even if madam and himself are at home from toadying up and down through Europe in search of a princeling. One million dollars owned by one man is like one million acres owned by one man. He will certainly make some kind of use of his acres, but the very best he can do will be as nothing compared to the use a thousand men or more can make of them. It is the same with a million of money.
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