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"Hush! don't speak so loudly; we may be heard. There is no danger, if you keep still." "But, Scar, my boy, why have you run this terrible risk?" "Soldiers have to run risks, mother. My father, who is at Ditton, with a strong body of horse, was terribly anxious about home.
Barron glanced at him, and then, after a moment, resumed in another manner, loftily explanatory: "I need not say that personally I find myself mixed up in such a business with the utmost reluctance." "Naturally," put in Flaxman dryly. "The risks attaching to it are simply gigantic." "I am aware of it.
But he had no conception that his adversaries would cheerfully accept great risks to achieve great ends; he had never dreamt of a general who would deliberately divide his army, or of one who would make fifty-six miles in two marches. Lee, with his extraordinary insight into character, had played on Pope as he had played on McClellan, and his strategy was justified by success.
"Not till to-morrow night," replied the husband of Alice, who having ascertained that, in all probability, Cornbury would come that night, determined, at all risks, to get possession of him; "we could well be over before daylight, and with your precious person I must not risk too much. You are anxiously expected."
Reporting two days later Grant said: "I now find, after thirty days of trial, the enemy deems it of the first importance to run no risks with the armies they now have. The battles lasted thirty days, the siege three hundred.
Many an ingenious placer has had the binders of his very worst risks that he had been totally unable to cover freshly typewritten every morning in order to convey the impression that the order had that moment been secured by his firm and that the hesitating counterman to whom it was being presented with elaborate indifference was the first the best friend of the placer to whom the line had been offered.
Surely there's nothing in which a man puts more of himself than in his love-letters! Mrs. But a woman's love-letters are like her child. They belong to her more than to anybody else Ventnor. And a man's? Mrs. Are all he risks! There, take them. Helen oh, Helen! Mrs. I see it all now. You want them for your memoirs! Helen Mrs. Come, come the rule is to unmask when the signal's given!
There is no merit in inviting him to share in purely commercial profits or losses which may be due to some one else's speculation or business foresight. It is futile to imagine you can reverse the functions of labour and capital, and say that capital should have a fixed wage, and that the employee should bear all the risks of the industry.
"Next Christmas Eve, Gudmundur begged Sigurdur to be cautious, and not run any risks, for he loved him as his own son. "But the boy answered, 'You need not fear, there are no risks to run." The troll appeared again, and Sigurdur gave her two old and two young sheep. When he returned to the farm he declared that he had seen nothing unusual.
His character is not lowered by the anxiety which, at that moment, the most disastrous of his life, he felt for the two persons who were dearest to him. As soon as he was safe, he wrote to assure his wife of his safety. In the confusion of the flight he had lost sight of Portland, who was then in very feeble health, and had therefore run more than the ordinary risks of war.
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