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The prince looked at me with contemptuous surprise, took my arm again, and making a show of re-conducting me to my seat, answered coldly, 'I? 'Yes, you! I went on in a whisper, obeying, however that is to say, following him to my place; 'you; but I do not intend to permit any empty-headed Petersburg up-start
"Take that, you sassy meddling up-start you belong to me till you are twenty-one years old. What 'ud you do with a ginger man 'cept to eat it?" He cuffed the boy through the door and sent him flying home. It was Joe Sykes, the wages of whose children kept him in active drunkenness and chronic inertia. He was the champion loafer of the town.
Which reminds one of the story told of Professor Josiah Royce, who once rang up six fares on the register when he wished to stop a Boston street-car. When the conductor protested, the philosopher called him "up-start," "curmudgeon" and "nincompoop," and showed the fallacy of his claim that thirty cents had been lost, since nobody had found it.
Indeed, some of her business men stood ready to desert her in the event that she should be beaten by the new town, and while all were bravely willing to continue the fight against the up-start, every one was slow to hazard his money to improve his home or his place of business.
The red button, signifying that its wearer is an officer of the Legion of Honour, was exceptionally small and unobtrusive. Vanderlyn was well aware that his visitor was no up-start, owing promotion to adroit flattery of the Republican powers; the Prefect of Police came of good bourgeois stock, and was son to a legal luminary who had played a considerable part in '48.
A railway had skipped Brantly by ten long and sandy miles, and a new town springing up about a station on the line an up-start of yesterday, four-fifths of it being a mere paper town, and the other fifth consisting of cheap and hastily built stores, saloons, boarding houses, a livery stable, a blacksmith shop, and a few roughly constructed dwellings clamored for the county seat; and until this question was finally settled old Brantly could not look with confidence toward any improvement.
Meanwhile his Lordship, in the dreary and drafty halls of his castle, saw all this up-start splendour and regretted the day when first he had signed away a single one of his sovereign rights and prerogatives. But he was helpless. The townspeople with their well-filled strong-boxes snapped their fingers at him.
'But, father, surely you would do something to save mother's life. Any news of Netta 'Don't name that girl to me, sir, or I'll horsewhip you! 'May I open the letter, father? 'Do as you will, but don't let me see it. The deceitful up-start! the pompous fool! the the
Gear.: Well, all I have got to say, is that when any of those candidates come to preach I hope you'll notify me, and I'll stay away. Mr. Hardcap.: I have no patience with these new fangled notions of these young up-start preachers. I reckon the ways our fathers got their preachers are good enough for us. Mr.
"I'm no up-start, sir," replied Jerry to the first-lieutenant a sarcasm which hit so hard, that Jerry was not called down till dark; and long after Prose had, by making interest with the captain's steward, obtained the keys, and released his neck from its enthralment.
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