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I think, in such circumstances, that it pays best to go straight for the hazard, because, if length is urgently demanded, what is the use of playing at an angle? Again, though there is undoubtedly an advantage gained by taking a bunker crossways, and thus giving the ball more time to rise, the advantage is often greatly exaggerated in the golfer's mind.
"Look here, Hargate, you have made a nice mess of it, and the game looks as bad as can be. Whatever you do, play carefully. Don't let out at anything that comes straight. The great thing is to bother their bowling a bit. They're so cocky now, that pretty near every ball is straight on the wickets. Be content with blocking for a bit, and Handcock will soon go off.
Much better, I say, is a flick with the iron than a thump with the mashie. The iron that I most commonly use is nearly two inches shorter than my cleek. It follows that the stance is taken slightly nearer to the ball; but reason for moving closer to our A line is to be found in what I might describe as the more upright lie of an iron as compared with a cleek.
I knew that it would be of no use to tell him the story of a fall, and I said at once: "'Monsieur, I believe doctors are like confessors, and that they keep the secrets of their patients. "He smiled. "'Monsieur has a secret, then? "'I have, I said. 'I have had my arm broken by a musket ball it does not matter how or when, does it?
There was a fine easterly breeze and a bright sun that day, but Captain Ball came toiling up the cobble-stoned street toward his house as if he were vexed by a headwind. He carried a post-card between his thumb and finger, and grumbled aloud as he stumped along.
I will take you to a ball, to dozens of them, for you have had no real young-girl life. And now, as soon as you can endure the fatigue, we will go to the city to operas and theatres. I was thinking, that first night you were hurt, what a little hermit you had been, and that we would give the proprieties the go-by for once."
Why should Mr Ball want to marry her, who would in such a case be penniless, but that he felt himself compelled in that way to quell all further inquiry into the thing that he was doing? And why should she desire to marry him, but that in this way she might, as it were, go with her own property, and not lose the value of it herself when compelled to surrender it to her cousin?
"Then it won't be your fault; you can tell her it's just for the races and the ball you're asking her that she may see Mr. McKeon's horse win the race, and dance with Ussher at the ball afterwards. Oh! if you mean her to come, she'll come fast enough; let you alone for carrying your point when you're in earnest.
For a moment temptation urged. Then he threw back his head with a gesture of decision. "But I can't. It's impossible." Now Lady Claire did not know that he was thinking of next Friday and Arlee's return and the masked ball. She only knew that he spoke with a curious fierceness, and that his eyes were very bright.
Suddenly there appeared on the floor, in front of the table, a light about as large as a baseball. It moved about in a circle of perhaps a foot in diameter and grew larger. It soon lost the shape of a ball and appeared to be a luminous cloud. Seemingly we could see into and through it.
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