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"Now, Billy, remember we're not going to take up with the first piece of land we see. We've got to go into this with our eyes open " "An' they ain't open yet," he agreed. "And we've got to get them open. ''Tis them that looks that finds. There's lots of time to learn things. We don't care if it takes months and months. We're footloose. A good start is better than a dozen bad ones.
With you footloose, and all the world before you it'll die out presently." "No," he flared. "I deny that. I'm not an impressionable boy. I know myself." He paused, and the grip of his hands on hers tightened till the pain of it ran to her elbows. Then his fingers relaxed a little. "Oh, I know," he said haltingly. "I know it's got to be that way. I have to go my road and leave you to yours.
"The Junior" as I called my brother, being footloose and discontented, wrote to say that he was planning to go farther west to Montana, I think it was. His letter threw me into dismay. I acknowledged once again that my education had in a sense been bought at his expense. I recalled the many weeks when the little chap had plowed in my stead whilst I was enjoying the inspiration of Osage.
And that's by having her six feet underground. But you, Sinclair, you need coin. You're footloose. Suppose you was to take her and bring her to " "Don't!" cried Sinclair again. "Don't say it, Cartwright. Think it over again. Have mercy on her, man. She could make some home happy. Are you going to destroy that chance?" "Say, what kind of talk is this?" asked the big man.
All of these together are efficient for defensive purposes, but they in no way supply the place of a thoroughly efficient navy capable of acting on the offensive; for parrying never yet won a fight. It can only be won by hard hitting, and an aggressive sea-going navy alone can do this hard hitting of the offensive type. But the forts and the like are necessary so that the Navy may be footloose.
All of these together are efficient for defensive purposes, but they in no way supply the place of a thoroughly efficient navy capable of acting on the offensive; for parrying never yet won a fight. It can only be won by hard hitting, and an aggressive sea-going navy alone can do this hard hitting of the offensive type. But the forts and the like are necessary so that the Navy may be footloose.
How could it be that she who had always been in such demand, so needed, so driven by real duties, should have become suddenly such a supernumerary, so footloose, and unattached? But when it came to that, wasn't Fallon full of others in the same circumstances? It was not an uncommon lot. There was Mrs. McMurray.
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