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Now the dwarf spoke again: "It was rather pitiful, rather small, in you to refuse to read that poor young woman's manuscript the other day, and give her an opinion as to its literary value; and she had come so far, too, and so hopefully. Now wasn't it?" I felt like a cur! And I had felt so every time the thing had recurred to my mind, I may as well confess.
I'd be a coward and a cur to subject you to such a thing. Well, I'm going down to tackle that dog." "To tackle the dog," she gasped. "And while I'm keeping him busy you are to cut and run for the road down there. Then you'll have easy sailing for town." "Mr. Crosby," she said firmly, clasping his arm; "you are not to leave this beam.
You'd have to shut him up in the wine-press." "And hear him howl to get out?" cried Marcus. "No, I shouldn't, because I shouldn't be there." "Why, where would you be?" said Serge, wonderingly. "Along with you, of course." "Along o' me?" "Yes. If you left home and went away for what was all my fault, do you think I should be such a miserable cur as to stop behind?
If I had ever doubted it, I knew now that Maria possessed a temper of her own. "You ain't no Red Lowrie," she retorted. The fellow laughed easily. "No more I ain't, old woman, but I reckon we ain't so durn far apart when it comes to getting what we go after. Come, honest now, where is the little white-livered cur that runs this shebang?"
I killed the cur, for, following its master, it would have peace, and peace is more than life. Then, with the pole of the waterpail, I threw the dead dog across the entrance upon the paving stones, for these vermin of plainsmen will not pass where a dead dog lies, as my father knows well.
Murphy jumped to his feet. "And you have known this three months and never told us! Is that any way to treat your friends? Do you suppose we want to lie by and see you licked off this dam like a yellow cur? It's no use for you to ask this to be kept quiet, Boss. I won't do it." Jim rose and pointed his pipe at Murphy.
For the rest, leave it to me. All I ask is no more whisky to-day. Stay right here and have a sleep. Guess you might go an' lie down. I'll call you for supper. Then you'll be fit. One thing you must remember; watch that ugly-faced cur when you play. See he don't cheat any. I'll tell you more before you start out. Come right along now and have that sleep."
Wish and learn to smooth away the surly wrinkles, to raise your lids frankly, and change the fiends to confident, innocent angels, suspecting and doubting nothing, and always seeing friends where they are not sure of foes. Don't get the expression of a vicious cur that appears to know the kicks it gets are its desert, and yet hates all the world, as well as the kicker, for what it suffers.
"Cur non ut plenus vita; conviva recedis?" "If you have not known how to make the best use of it, if it was unprofitable to you, what need you care to lose it, to what end would you desire longer to keep it? "'Cur amplius addere quaeris, Rursum quod pereat male, et ingratum occidat omne?
That may be about two months ago; last week, towards evening, something came scratching at our room door; come in! no one opened; but the scraping and scratching continued: so my Godfred opened the door and looked out, in springs our old smith's dog like a fool and behind him came hobling the diseased thing, the cur there with a broken leg dragging behind him, and the smith's dog danced and sprang round my husband, as if to beg, and thus supplicated him that he would also doctor his comrade.
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