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"We ought to have some sort of an alarm bell," suggested John Boll. "We can't always depend on Constable Stickler." "That's so," admitted Bert. "I wonder if we couldn't get permission to have the church bell rung?" This seemed a good idea, and Bert and Cole interviewed the minister on the subject.
"That's the stuff, boys!" called Constable Stickler, who with a crowd of others was in the cowyard, removing such things as the boys pushed or tossed out, for they found many small objects they could save. "There isn't much more we can get out," called Bert in answer. "It's getting pretty hot here. Guess we'll have to leave, now."
He was a great stickler for a man's doing his duty, and was possessed with the idea that, getting on as I was, it was my duty to refuse to take a brief in the County Court. Coming up to me on the occasion I refer to, Morgan said, "What, you here, Hawkins! I believe you'd take a brief before the devil in h ." I was quite taken aback for the moment by the use of such language.
Here they did much of the autumn work, for Elizabeth was quite a stickler for having a common place to save something nicer. Mother Taft always smoked a pipe of tobacco in the evening. "It soothed her," she said, after her tussle of fixing her patient for the night, "and made her sleep better."
I'm so glad you've brought her. Sit down, dear. Not so near the door. To be sure there ain't much room anywhere else, but get out of the way, Stickler." The black sheep hopped to one side instantly, and Di was accommodated with his chair. Stickler was one of those toadies who worship rank for its own sake. If a lamp-post had been knighted Stickler would have bowed down to it.
However, the metal dish and cover which were used in serving that homely meal of boiled pork and Pease-pudding are still shown, and what can the stickler for historical accuracy do in the face of such stubborn evidence? Two other Fenchurch Street taverns have wholly disappeared. One of these, the Elephant, was wont to claim a somewhat dubious association with Hogarth.
You see, when one of us marries a woman of his own class 'Prinzessen, Comtessen, Serene English Altessen, as Svengali called them he usually gets a partner more ah hidebound, I think you call it than himself a greater stickler for precedent and tradition and position and etiquette and elegant leisure, and all that sort of thing.
Still smarting under Winifred's reproach of his unpoetic literality, he did not intend to force her to marry him exactly at the end of the twelve-month. But he was determined that she should have no later than this exact date for at least "naming the day." Not the most punctilious stickler for convention, he felt, could deny that Mrs. Grundy's claim had been paid to the last minute.
Lady Tinemouth, you will allow me to draw your kinsfolks' pictures?" "Yes, Sophia, provided you don't make them caricatures. Remember, your candor is at stake; to-morrow Mr. Constantine will judge for himself." "And I am sure he will agree with me. Now, Lady Dundas, if you please! I know your ladyship is a great stickler for precedence." Lady Tinemouth laughed, and interrupted her
"I'll see to it myself," declared Muriel. "I intend to be a stickler for duty this night. Go and get Ronny and Lucy while I do my hair over. It's all falling down. I will meet you down stairs." Lucy and Ronny also raised weak objections on the ground of unprepared recitations. Nevertheless they shut up their books with alacrity. Neither cared to be left out of a visit to Silverton Hall.
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