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"Five straight passes!" "You heard me say it," growled big Phil Marvin. All at once she laughed. "Phil, give that two hundred back to Slim!" It came like a bolt from the blue, this decision. Marvin hesitated, shook his head. "Damned if I do. I don't back down. I won it square!" "Listen to me," said the girl. Instead of threatening, as Terry expected, she had suddenly become conciliatory.
Had you been more conciliatory, less h'm positive, I'm inclined to believe that we " "I don't care what you believe," was Blake's brusque rejoinder. "I'm not trying to curry favor with you. Understand? Come on, Jimmy." But Genevieve was at his elbow, between him and the door. "You are not going now, Tom," she said. "Genevieve," reproved her father. "This is most unlike you."
The first impulsive sentiment was that of pleasure because the offer was in so liberal, so conciliatory, so forgiving a spirit; moreover, people were encouraged by the very fact that the President thought it worth while to initiate reconstruction; also many of the more weak-kneed, who desired to see the luring process tried, were gratified by a generous measure.
"Every woman is fitted by nature to rear children and manage a house." "They should be, I know," yielded Mary in conciliatory fashion. "But with Zara it doesn't seem to be the case." "Then she ought to be ashamed of herself, my dear Mary ashamed of herself and that's all about it!"
Their conduct towards the white men was much more friendly than might have been expected, and almost from the first they displayed a conciliatory attitude, and entered into alliances with the newcomers.
"I didn't say so, my dear sister, and I humbly beg your pardon for anything I may have said which may have hurt your feelings," said Roy with a low and conciliatory bow; "what I meant was that the light twenty-gauge doesn't kick so hard and, moreover, won't blow a rabbit to pieces if you happen to hit him." "Happen to hit him!" shouted Jess, going into a convulsion of laughter.
Lincoln's Inaugural Speech was of the kind usually called "firm, but conciliatory," a policy doubtful in troublous times, since it commonly argues weakness, and more than doubtful in a crisis like ours, since it left the course which the Administration meant to take ambiguous, and, while it weakened the Government by exciting the distrust of all who wished for vigorous measures, really strengthened the enemy by encouraging the conspirators in the Border States.
The Japanese Commander, instead of meeting these conciliatory attempts half-way, thereupon illegally arrested the Magistrate and locked him up, being impelled to this action by the general fear among his men that a mass attack would be made in the night by the Chinese troops in garrison and the whole command wiped out.
Who can doubt his tact and forbearance, where matters not essential were concerned? His strength in not yielding a fraction upon vital points was matched only by his suppleness and conciliatory bearing upon all others. Or again, is it likely that it could have been due to contact with the hallucinations of his despised and hated enemies?
And den," added he, "dere is odder reasons: I like de exercise in de church better. I like dere taste, too, when dey ornaments de church wid greens at Christmas. It make de winter look kind o' young and happy." Felix was easily propitiated. He might be offended with his comrade, but his anger could not last. It had passed away, before Primus had concluded his conciliatory remarks.
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