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Miss Minerva remained as prudent as ever. She answered, "I have had no opportunity of forming an opinion." Mrs. Gallilee met this cautious reply by playing her trump card. She handed a letter to Miss Minerva. "I have received a proposal from Mr. Le Frank," she said. "Will you tell me what you think of it?" The letter was short and servile. Mr. Le Frank presented his best respects. If Mrs.
"I've got to stay here a while yet, and arrange about shrinking on the jackets, after the core is rifled. I don't see how " "I'll slip out and see if I can get a peep at him," went on Ned. "If it's like the one Koku described, we'll know that he's still after you." "All right, Ned. Do as you like, only be cautious." "I will," promised Tom's chum.
'I may have been mistaken in my impression that the family in question was in any way related to you, she said quietly. 'One should be more cautious in such matters. 'Yes, said Lady Myrtle, nervously, 'I think you must have been mistaken. I do not know anything of such people, and Harper is not a very uncommon name.
Paul leaped joyfully ashore, glad to stretch his limbs again. The others quickly followed, and they set about gathering wood to build a fire. They were out of the Indian country now and they had no need to be cautious. Paul bestirred himself looking for brushwood. Presently he found at the edge of the water a dead bough which was long enough to be broken into several sticks of convenient length.
In public trusts, where men, acting conspicuously, are cautious, and in those private concerns where few conceal or resist their weakness, Washington was uniformly great, pursuing right conduct from right maxims. His talents were such as to assist a sound judgment and ripen with it.
I nearly did it. I was as cautious as a man could be content with small things. If only I hadn't been pressed for time! It was only the want of time that made me use your money. Of course, it was criminal. Don't think I wish to excuse myself for one moment. Absolutely criminal. I knew what was at stake. But I thought the thing was sure. It promised at the least twenty-five per cent.
For some time he carried on his trade undiscovered, for, being a cautious man, he dug a vault, in which his cargoes of brandy and bales of lace and silks were concealed, covering the floor over again with heaps of stone. The Revenue officers, however, at length got scent of Jack's doings, and came in strong force, hoping to capture him and take possession of his property.
Most Governors of the Bank of England are cautious merchants, not profoundly skilled in banking, but most anxious that their period of office should be prosperous and that they should themselves escape censure. If a 'safe' course is pressed upon them they are likely to take that course.
This life is nothing in comparison to that which awaits you; you must think now of your eternal happiness. You can pay your debt to man with your life, but God is not content with such a little thing as that." "Give up my life! Ah! you do not know all that I am leaving." Denise looked at her brother as if to warn him that even in matters of religion he must be cautious.
Recollecting that he had his dirk by his side, he drew it out of the case, in the most cautious manner possible, and by one happy thrust quite through the heart, he laid the tiger dead at his side. The particular instance, however, to which Mr. Waterton alludes, and which was told him by the parties themselves, I now briefly give: The weather was intolerably sultry.
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