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Never heard of Bell having a turn for the religious. Fact is, I've heard him say things when a four-in-hand didn't seem to tie up just right that would bring him up for court-martial before any church." "It's Bell, without a doubt," said Eyres, firmly, "or I'm pretty badly in need of an oculist.
It was quite conceivable that that jewel, intrinsically invaluable, was badly wanted by its former possessors, whether for the simple worth of it or because it played an important part in the intrigue, or whatever it was, that had resulted in Rutton's suicide.
Eing leaders some times get beat up so badly it's impossible to identify 'em at the morgue. But in time we'll smash the gang, and then if a feller goes up for ten, twenty or even thirty years he'll know there's no underhanded work goin' on and he can settle down to an honest life. The only way to stop crime in this country, Mr. Yollop, is to " "Thank you." " is to make EVERYBODY respect the law.
He would not catch the rope flung to him because of the chance of dragging Jim off his perch in spite of the latter's great strength, and then, too, he was liable to be hurled against the cliff and be badly injured, so he let the wave carry him back, exerting himself so as to be brought nearer the beach on the return.
"I don't think she was fond enough of him for that, sir," he answered. "She was when he married her; but he treated her so badly as I was told by Denham that she grew to hate him. He spent her money, and behaved like the brute he is.
'Yes, my lady, that was it. Happen such crack-jaw words come easy to a scholar like your ladyship. 'Does the doctor give no hope? 'Well, no, my lady. He don't go so far as to say there's no hope, though Robert has been badly so long. It all depends, he says, upon the rallying power of the constitution. The lungs are not gone, and the heart is not diseased.
She was actually weeping, tears were rolling over her cheeks. "What do you mean?" said he. "Don't feel so badly." "You can't be very quick-witted not to see. If you should meet that man, and get killed, I should really be the one who killed you and not the man." "Why, no, you would not." The girl stamped her foot. "Yes, I should, too," said she, half-sobbing.
It was a wrestling fight in the mud, this, holding onto shell-craters and the soft remains of trenches. The Germans had heard that the Canadians were highstrung, nervous, quick for the offensive, but badly organized and poor at sticking.
The work of Andrea del Sarto, as we are assured, might but for his tragic story have been so splendid; but in truth that sentimental and pathetic tale neither excuses nor explains his failure, if failure it be. He is the first artist who has worked badly because he loved a woman. He was born in 1456, and became the pupil of Piero di Cosimo.
The man had a right to be there; he had none. I was never so much an admirer of Grant as since that day. It was true greatness. A smaller man would have made a row, stood upon his dignity and demanded the punishment of the policeman. As for him, there was probably never so badly frightened a policeman when I told him whom he had clubbed.
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