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Bela studied his averted face with a curious wistfulness. He was very difficult to handle. "You want to see my cache?" she asked abruptly, at last. "Where I stay?" Sam's heart leaped up. Old Prudence shook his staff in vain. "Yes, if you like," he said breathlessly, scowling harder than ever. She scrambled to her feet. "Stay here," she said. "I come back soon."
"There was always a chance of Princeton's beating us. The score was 10 to 6. I worked harder in that game than in any game I ever played. "Frank Glick's defensive work was nothing short of marvelous. He is the football player I respect. He hit me so hard. The way I ran, it was seldom that anybody got a crack at me.
"If it had not done that, not a step farther would I have gone." Soon they came to the place where the axes were fighting. Rose looked and stared, and then she began to laugh. A little later they came to where the arms were striving together, and at that Rose laughed harder still. But when she came to where the heads were butting each other, she laughed hardest of all.
They take no account of incapacities, unless the weakness is so marked as to fall into well-known exceptions, such as infancy or madness. They assume that every man is as able as every other to behave as they command. If they fall on any one class harder than on another, it is on the weakest.
I was not the sort to back down to man or beast, and I'm not now. I am not backing down, now; I'm taking my punishment. Whatever you please to make it, I'll take it; and that," he went on, more slowly, "makes it harder for me to ask what I want to ask, and make you all believe I am not asking it for myself."
They were as calm and untroubled as the sky, which Mackenzie thought, with a poignant sweep of transcendant fear for his life, he never had beheld so placid and beautiful as in that dreadful moment. Carlson's huge fingers began to tighten in the grip of death; relax, tighten, each successive clutch growing longer, harder.
But Canada as yet took no step toward assuming a share in her own naval defense, though the Australasian colonies made a beginning, along colonial rather than national lines, by making a money contribution to the British navy. The second task confronting the policy of imperial cooperation was a harder one. For a partnership between colony and mother country there were no precedents.
I ceased to think about anything. My experience of the business of actual fighting was brief. I had little more than a month of it altogether. Then they sent me home with a shattered leg. I worked harder than ever when I was at the Front. I was often very uncomfortable. I remained amazingly healthy. I suffered at last a good deal of physical pain.
It was hard upon him much harder than it was upon the Wallikers and other young men whom Fate retained in town for Harry was a man given to shooting a man accustomed to pass the autumnal months in a country house.
Just then Billy Jay picked away a big piece of bark and the Tree-Fairy slowly but surely pulled one wing free. Uncle Whiskers, Twinkle and Winkle worked all the harder and faster and soon Twinkle cried: "I think you can move your wing now, dear Tree-Fairy. Try to move it just a tiny bit." The Tree-Fairy needed no urging. Very gently and slowly she pulled her wing out from under the bark.
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