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"Of course, a shot from the fort may blow us out of the water; but we can't help that, and we must take our chances of being hit." "But that is terribly risky business, and the whole of us may be killed before we get by the fort." "Of course: that may be the case; but we have no papers, and we have to take things as they come."
Confronted with ruin, Eyraud and Gompard hit on a plan by which the woman should decoy some would-be admirer to a convenient trysting-place. There, dead or alive, the victim was to be made the means of supplying their wants. On further reflection dead seemed more expedient than alive, extortion from a living victim too risky an enterprise. Their plans were carefully prepared.
It was a painful dilemma for the captain, who had, however, been longing to make his present venture, but shrank therefrom as too risky till opinions other than his own urged his attempt. But there was his position. If he kept to the darkness, wreck seemed certain; if to the light, he must be seen.
It was an extremely risky proceeding, for we had dropped some of the powder in among the short dry moss and stones, and then, too, the rag was drying fast, and it was quite within the range of possibilities that when I lit one end it might communicate too rapidly with the powder in the canister, and the explosion would take place before I could get out of the way.
Your second request, namely, for a man capable of understanding and seconding your projects, requires me to find you a rara avis such as we seldom raise in the provinces, where, if we do raise them, we never keep them. The education of that high product is too slow and too risky a speculation for country folks. Besides, men of intellect alarm us; we call them "originals."
The little play had all the modern loveliness and grace which Octave Feuillet alone can give, and it contained a lesson from which any one might profit; which was by no means always the case with Madame d'Avrigny's plays, which too often were full of risky allusions, of critical situations, and the like; likely, in short, to "sail too close to the wind," as Fred had once described them.
Poor woman! it cost her many a pang to send what must find its way into the vanity-bag of 'that creature! Soames, hearing of it, shook his head. They were not dealing with a Forsyte, reasonably tenacious of his purpose. It was very risky without knowing how the land lay out there. Still, it would look well with the Court; and he would see that Dreamer brought it out.
'Wilkes is right, said the major, after a pause. 'To take the both of you would be risky; and unless I'm mistaken, Archimbeau, he thinks you will be the easier spared. 'I haven't a doubt he does, agreed Captain Archimbeau, laughing. 'But I do not, sir. The sergeant seemed on the point to say more, but checked himself. 'Well? 'It's not for me to give an opinion, sir, unless asked for it.
Perhaps he imagined that she would feel ashamed of herself, seeing his humiliation, on which she had so insisted. Of course no one but he would have dreamt of bringing a woman to reason by so naive and risky a proceeding. He remained kneeling with his imperturbable gravity long, tall, awkward, and ridiculous. But our party did not laugh. The unexpectedness of the action produced a painful shock.
"Well, I was just starting into that when the rifle cracked and I jumped for a tree with a broken wing and a bad scare." "You saw the man?" "I did later. He came over to look for dead game, and I ached to let him go; but it was too risky with Les Errues swarming alive with Boches, and me with the stomach-sickness of a shot-up man. "Of course, you did the wise thing and the right one."
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