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To this end, then, she devoted her intelligence diligently, with the result that she soon had concrete plans of betterment for the many, and these of a sort to redound directly to her husband's advantage in a business way.
One colossal genius in humbugging actually advertised in these words: "A company for carrying on an undertaking of great advantage, but nobody to know what it is." The capital he called for was $2,500,000, in shares of $500 each; deposit on subscribing, $10 per share.
But I can't let that four-flusher pull the wool over your eyes without saying, 'Beware of the dog. I shouldn't be a man if I did." "You take advantage of our friendship," she said, severely; "but there are limits beyond which even an old friend cannot go, and you've reached them. Mr.
I told him that I was with the bunch first and last and all the time. That's why he hates me!" While he searched desperately for an answer, Andrew found none. Then he saw the stupid, big eyes of Jeff wander from his face to the face of Scottie, and he knew that his previous advantage had been completely neutralized.
But again, suppose that several distinct societies maintain a kind of intercourse for mutual convenience and advantage, the boundaries of justice still grow larger, in proportion to the largeness of men's views and the force of their mutual connexion.
But the smoke partly spoiled our aim, and the interval gave the redskins a terrible advantage. Half of them dashed on, under our very guns, and right up to the wall of the house, and the next instant we heard an ominous sound the thump and clatter of the dried timbers as they fell against the logs. "That's our death knell!" cried Menzies. "Heaven help us now! We are lost!" Heaven help us indeed!
I became interested and gradually took up with his speculation; for all my love of action I found that I had a strong subcurrent for the philosophical. Now I roomed with Hobart. When I would come home with some dry tome and would lose myself in it by the hour he could not understand it. I was preparing for the law. He could see no advantage to be derived from this digging into speculation.
"Don't you think it is rather mean," she said, "to give me up when you promised to belong to me to give me up altogether and to go with those dreadful, proud paying girls?" "It isn't that," said Ruth, "and you know it. It is just this: I can't belong to two sides. Cassandra Weldon offers me an advantage which I dare not throw away. It is most essential to me to win the sixty-pounds scholarship.
Early had about the same number, but the superior ability of the National commander over the Confederate commander was so great that all the latter's advantage of being on the defensive was more than counterbalanced by this circumstance. As I had predicted, Early was soon found in front of Sheridan in the valley, and Pennsylvania and Maryland were speedily freed from the invaders.
But there is no such thing as "honest gambling." The "house" must have "the best of it." A famous American gambler, when I had referred to one of his guild, lately deceased, as "an honest gambler," said to me: "What do you mean by 'an honest gambler'?" "A gambler who will not take unfair advantage!" I answered.
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