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Cornelius did not see the arrival of the escort of his royal master without uneasiness. "Are all those persons to take part in the inquiry?" he said to the king. Louis XI. could not help smiling as he saw the fright of the miser and his sister. "No, my old crony," he said; "don't worry yourself. They will sup at Plessis, and you and I alone will make the investigation.
"You wish he did, don't you?" replied the king, with the malicious look at his barber. "Ventre-Mahom, sire, the inheritance would be a fine one between you and the devil!" "There, there!" said the king, "don't put bad ideas into my head. My crony is a more faithful man than those whose fortunes I have made perhaps because he owes me nothing."
He used to go ashore every night to foregather in some hotel's parlour with his crony, the mate of the barque Cicero, lying on the other side of the Circular Quay. Late at night I would hear from afar their stumbling footsteps and their voices raised in endless argument. The mate of the Cicero was seeing his friend on board.
He already saw himself seated in the old armchair in the snug parlor of Dame Bedard's inn, his back to the fire, his belly to the table, a smoking dish of roast in the middle, an ample trencher before him with a bottle of Cognac on one flank and a jug of Norman cider on the other, an old crony or two to eat and drink with him, and the light foot and deft hand of pretty Zoe Bedard to wait upon them.
Graham's own immediate ancestors, and the various members of her family with their fates and fortunes, as if she were a contemporary, and was like another grandchild who was a neighbor and beloved crony, which real blessing none of the true grandchildren had ever been lucky enough to possess.
I was a little surprised, at first, to find honest Slingsby, the schoolmaster, rather opposed to his old crony Tibbets, and coming forwards as a kind of advocate for the accused. It seems that he had taken compassion on the forlorn fortunes of Starlight Tom, and had been trying his eloquence in his favour the whole way from the village, but without effect.
There was my Lord Berkeley, the king's especial crony, who possessed all his royal master's vices without any of his Majesty's meagre virtues. He imitated the king in dress, manner, cut of beard, and even in the use of Charles's favorite oath, "Odds fish!" an expletive too inane even to be wicked, being a distortion of the words "God's flesh."
Matthew Blackett, member for Langkirk, as he told the story to a crony in the smoking-room of his club, White's, "I tell you, sir, he trod Culloden Moor with all the vigour and fire he had when we marched with Marlborough to Malplaquet." This question, especially after the death of all Anne's children, became a most important one.
"Upton Robert Upton!" bellowed the old janitor, Scroggins, appearing on the campus just then. "That's me," acknowledged Bob. "President Elliott wishes to see you in the library," said Scroggins. "Aha!" snorted Banbury. "Called down already! Look out, Bob-up, you're in for a quake in the shoes." "No; the president is going to consult him on how to raise squashes," sneered a crony of Banbury.
All the servants were but too well acquainted with their master’s conduct, and either Benson or John would have been willing to serve me; but as the former was more staid and elderly, and a crony of Rachel’s besides, I of course directed her to make choice of him as her assistant and confidant on the occasion, as far as necessity demanded, I only hope he may not be brought into trouble thereby, and only wish I could reward him for the perilous service he was so ready to undertake.
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