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He was watching a small speck which moved rapidly over the snow in the direction of the fort. "No man in the settlement drives so furiously. I shouldn't wonder if he ran against the corner of the new fence now. Ha! just so there he goes!" And truly the reckless driver did "go" just at that moment.
Even his reckless reference to a cab failed. "It's no good," she said, tartly. "We can't go about the grounds in a cab, and I'm not going to slop about in the wet to please anybody. We must go another time. It's hard luck, but there's worse things in life." Mr. Teak, wondering as to the operations of Mr. Chase, agreed dumbly.
I could have done the business in less time, had I been more reckless of consequences; but I feared to strain too heavily upon the blade, and, remembering the old adage, "The more haste the less speed," I handled the precious tool with care. It was more than an hour before I approached the inner surface of the plank. I knew that I was nearly through it from the depth to which I had cut.
"I have come to bid you all good-by," he answers, in a low, quick voice, with his eyes bent on the ground; "you know" raising them, and beginning to laugh hoarsely "if if things had gone right you would have been my nearest relation by now." I shudder. "Yes," say I, "I know." "I am going away," he goes on, raising his voice to a louder tone of reckless unrest, "where? God knows!
And when she attended her lady to the hall there certainly were glances between her and a slim young archer. The lady's presence was certainly a restraint on the rude men-at- arms, though two or three of them seemed to her rough, reckless- looking men.
So, for another week, we enjoyed one another's company; and after the lecture he not only went home with me, as I have said, but he has remained ever since. I am trying not to build up any more hopes on this, because I know that Terry has been in a particularly reckless mood, and does not care much where he is.
He wondered what her reckless meaning could be, but he had always thought her a young lady singularly fitted by nature and art to take care of herself, and when he reasoned upon what was in his mind he had to own that there was no harm in Jeff's dancing with her.
He could forgive their cutting down his trees, their wanton conversion of his pleasure-grounds into a graveyard, but he could never forget their reckless plunder of all the camp equipment and other relics of General Washington that Arlington House had contained.
Harry had been the resistant, and the other with his brilliant initiative attacking, always attacking when he should have been hiding, had carried him off. "What had he done, and how had he managed, when Harry must have had such pressing reasons for wanting to stay?" Ah, she knew only too well Kerr's exquisite knowledge of managing; but why must he make such a reckless exposure of himself?
It matters not whether this deforestation is due to the actual reckless cutting of timber, to the fires that inevitably follow such reckless cutting of timber, or to reckless and uncontrolled grazing, especially by the great migratory bands of sheep, the unchecked wandering of which over the country means destruction to forests and disaster to the small home makers, the settlers of limited means.
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