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"They seemed to have a feeling of pride and a love for it that I don't see much of now. Of late years, it looks as though everybody hates his job and is ashamed of what he is doing. They all seem to think of nothing but their pay, and busy their minds with scheming how they can get the most and give the least.
"Nay, sahib, I am scheming for the peace of India! But there will be war first." "I know there will be war," said the Brigadier. "I only wish I could make the other sahibs realize it." "Will you sign the paper, sahib?" "Yes, I will sign the paper. But " "But what, sahib?" "I'm not quite certain that I'm doing right."
No posse would ride farther south than Showdown, and with Pete afoot at Flores's rancho, Malvey would be free to follow his own will, either to Blake's ranch or farther south and across the border. Whether Pete returned to Showdown or not was none of Malvey's affair. To get away with the horse might require some scheming. Malvey made no further attempt to draw Pete out but rode on in silence.
Friday wore on towards evening, and the constant strain upon my nerves had made me irritable. Terry, who was calmly getting ready for the start as if there were no cause for uncertainty, chaffed me on my state of mind, and I rounded upon him viciously, for was not all my scheming for his sake?
Out on the road, beneath the forest trees, in the radiance of the evening, he rode with his head high and a smile within his eyes. All the scheming, all the labour and strife of the day, fell from him like rusty armour, and his spirit bathed itself in the thought of that meeting.
"Mis' Pell," he said, twirling his chair so that he caught a better glimpse of her. "Yes?" she said, half-way down. "You and Gil's old friends, ain't you?" The question was as direct as anything could be. "Yes," was the equally direct answer. "Want to do him a good turn?" asked the scheming old man. "Of course. What do you mean?" She was at his side now.
Howe scarcely exaggerated when he wrote about one of them to the lieutenant-governor that 'in his private offices there is more jobbing, scheming, and corruption in a month than in all the public departments in seven years. But whatever Lord Grey's mistakes in colonial policy, his long career shows him personally incorruptible, and in some ways almost pedantically high-minded.
It might really seem as if the authorities were all scheming together, when we see the ingenuity and persistence with which they discussed the three words "of our company," as used by the accused. The poor old woman offered an explanation, which ought to have been satisfactory.
Cresswell lost no time in calling on Senator Smith and pointing out to him that Bles Alwyn was a dangerous Negro: seeking social equality, hating white people, and scheming to make trouble. He was too young and heady. It would be fatal to give such a man office and influence; fatal for the development of the South, and bad for the Cotton Combine. Senator Smith was unconvinced.
Susan's merry eyes, her laughing mouth, her funny way of saying even commonplace things how could quiet, unobtrusive, ladylike charms such as Ruth's have a chance if Susan were about? She waited, silent and anxious, while her mother was having the talk with her father in the sitting-room. Warham, mere man, was amused by his wife's scheming. "Don't put yourself out, Fanny," said he.
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