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One of Borrow's first duties was to write a lengthy letter to Mr Jowett, telling him of his movements, describing the city, the service at a church he attended, the lax morality of the Hamburgers in permitting rope-dancers in the park, and the opening of dancing- saloons, "most infamous places," on the Lord's day.
Joe an' the Spider's on the track, an' they're goin' to track Fate to doom, ma'am to perishin' doom! Y' see," here the old man leaned suddenly nearer, "y' see, Joe's found a cloo!" "A clew! Yes yes!" she whispered breathlessly, moistening lips suddenly dry, and conscious that Spike's lax form had stiffened to painful alertness.
In the account of the Lancashire trials we shall see that the two families whose quarrels started the trouble were the lowest of low hill-country people, beggars and charmers, lax in their morals and cunning in their dealings.
I " he swung around on me like light, his revolver six inches from my ear. "Stand there," he shouted at me, "and die like Wilbraham, you " His hand dropped, his jaw fell with the half-spoken words in it; his eyes, all pupils, stared over my shoulder. I turned and saw Dudley, Dudley, silent, watching us both; saw him even before I grabbed the gun out of Macartney's hanging, lax hand.
He had been many years in a sufficiently distasteful business, and he had lost any thought of leaving it when it left him, perhaps because his hold on it had always been rather lax, and he had not been able to conceal that he disliked it.
It had been a vexatious circumstance, too, that not long before this time he had received a rebuke from the Massachusetts Assembly for having been lax, as they fancied, in notifying them of some legislation of an injurious character, which was in preparation.
The wall was furnished with frequent battlements and occasional towers, and its whole circuit was kept under watch day and night. But as time went on the besiegers grew more lax in discipline, and on wet nights sought the shelter of the towers, leaving the spaces between without guards. This left a chance for escape which the Platæans determined to embrace.
"There is no doubt that many of the garrisons are very far from being efficient. They have been stationed in the forts for many years. Discipline, both among officers and men, is sure to have become lax, and there will be much that young men, going freshly into the matter, will see needs amendment.
I was compelled to explain that it was not probable. "A Roman Catholic?" he asked, in a not unfriendly voice. I shook my head, but nothing would discourage him. "Not a dissenter!" he exclaimed, with a sudden hardening of his genial face. I shook my head again. "Ah, a little lax a little remiss!" he said playfully, and with an expression of relief. "Professional men get into these ways.
A little to the left of these Pan's lightning swift gaze took in another group. His men! Not lounging, not conversing, but aloof from each other, lax and abject, or strung motionless! Bewildered, shocked, Pan swept his eyes back upon the strangers. "Hardman! Purcell!" he gasped, starting back as if struck. Then his mind leaped to conclusions.
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