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"She has not had much chance, I think, and may have made a mistake, perhaps many of them, but I believe she 's on the square." "Did did sh-she come out t-to our m-m-mine spying for Farnham?" "Really, I don't know." His grave face darkened anxiously; she could perceive the change even in that shadow, and distinguish the sharp grind of his teeth. "Damn him," he muttered, his voice bitter with hate.
"That is just the flaw of the modern world, to keep life and religion apart," protested Raphael; "to have one set of principles for week-days and another for Sundays; to grind the inexorable mechanism of supply and demand on pagan principles, and make it up out of the poor-box." Strelitski shook his head. "We must make broad our platform, not our phylacteries.
Conward was making money making money fast, and surely here was an opportunity such as comes once in a lifetime. A boy shoved in his head and yelled for copy. Dave swore at him, impatiently. He had never before realized how irksome the drudgery of his steady grind had become. "I'll go you," he said to Conward at last. "I'll risk this hundred, and a little more if necessary."
With old knowledge born of many years of restaurant work, he knew that any day some prospector might find that which all prospectors endlessly sought and that then he would grind his bare grubstake contemptuously under his heel and demand to eat. Upon such occasions there would be no questions asked as to price if Joe but tickled the tingling palate.
"I am your only child," said Pluma, haughtily; "you would not rob me of my birthright. I shall be forced to submit to your pleasure while you are here but, thank Heaven, the time is not far distant when I shall be able to do as I please. 'The mills of the gods grind slowly, but they grind exceeding fine," she quoted, saucily.
When hay-harvest came, the rich brother got it, but he was in such a hurry to make it grind that he forgot to learn how to handle it. It was evening when the rich brother got the mill home, and next morning he told his wife to go out into the hayfield and toss hay while the mowers cut the grass, and he would stay at home and get the dinner ready.
After this, I made a great heavy pestle or beater of the wood called the iron-wood, and this I prepared and laid by against I had my next crop of corn, when I proposed to myself to grind, or rather pound, my corn or meal to make my bread.
Her disappointments and eventually her privations had been many, her discipline severe; but she had ended by accepting the long grind of life and was now quite willing to take her turn at the mill. She was essentially one of us she always understood.
Dark apparitions of boats would surge up on all sides in a most inexplicable way; to the right; to the left; even coming from behind. They appeared real, unmistakable, and, before we had time to dodge them, vanished utterly. Then we had to spurt desperately after the grind of the oars, caught, just in time, in an unexpected direction. And then we lost them. We pulled frantically.
If instead of finding a woman to argue and wrestle with I had found just a mother here, knitting by the fire" he threw out a hand toward Lady Coryston's empty chair "with time to smile and think and jest with no ax to grind and no opinions to push do you think I shouldn't have been at her feet her slave, her adorer?
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