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They loved him for his casualness for his inexactness for refusing to make life a cut- and-dried business for ramming an official dispatch of high importance into his coat-pocket, and finding it there, still unopened, at Newmarket, several days later.
"That was all arranged and written down ages ago. Let me see, I am ticketed for the Major again." "As you have been all day. I never saw such a cut and-dried, monotonous programme for a party: all done by rule no freedom of action." "Really, Bertie, you and Miss Tremaine can't complain." "That's why you are so cold to me to-night, Cecil," said Du Meresq, quietly.
Maybe the family ends with you, but a new Foote family begins with him, and it won't be any cut- and-dried, ancestor-ridden outfit, either. One generation of his kind will be worth more to this country than the whole six of yours.... I hope you live to see it." Lightener stuffed his blue prints and specifications into his pocket and left the office truculently.
And there is the root of the matter; writing has come to be recognized as a profession, almost as cut- and-dried as church or law; a lad may go into it with full parental approval, with ready avuncular support.
Once more she was all for luxury and ease and calmness, for the pleasant, soothing, cut- and-dried thing. "A cold bath or a rough rub-down now and then, once in a long while, is all very well. It makes one appreciate comfort and luxury more. But that sort of thing every day many times each day " Margaret felt her nerves rebelling as at the stroking of velvet the wrong way.
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