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"I had taken some kind of distaste for Arranstoun and shirked going there I shall have to face it now, I suppose, because it is such hard luck on the people when an owner is away, and so one must come up to the scratch." "Yes," she agreed, "one must always do that."
The man had passed his prime and was beginning to find the labor he had never shirked more irksome than it had been. He dispensed with a hired hand in winter, when there was less to be done, for Clarke neglected no opportunity to save a dollar. When he had finished in the stable, he crossed the snow to the house, which was dark and silent.
The labour which you have shirked, which is now hidden from you, will be disclosed, you will justify your existence by taking your place as an element of the community. You will be able to say of yourself, at last, 'I am of use." "You mean social work?" The likeness of this to Mrs. Plimpton's question struck him. She had called it "charity."
A pause in which I began to steady the palsy of my nerves, and to feel that the Rubicon was passed; and that the trial, no longer to be shirked, must be firmly sustained.
When the sharp firing broke out in front some of the boys said, 'Fisher, I do believe you are right, and he nodded his head mournfully. When we were piling knapsacks for the charge, the Lieutenant, who was a great friend of Fisher's, said: "Fisher, you stay here and guard the knapsacks. "Fisher's face blazed in an instant. "No, sir, said he; I never shirked a fight yet, and I won't begin now.
The man had passed his prime and was beginning to find the labour he had never shirked more irksome than it had been, while he dispensed with a hired hand in winter, when there was less to be done. Clarke neglected no opportunity of saving a dollar. When he had finished in the stable, he crossed the snow to the house, which was dark and silent.
Quite likely. They would die in the same quiet way. It was a natural incident of the job. A horrid nuisance, of course, quite rotten, and all that, but no more to be shirked than the risk of taking a toss over an ugly fence. It was what this young man had been born for. It was the price he paid for his caste.
She had not shirked her duty, she was safe from temptation, and she had after all a sincere, half-pitying tenderness for the man. Her liking for him would, she thought, grow stronger, and the passion which Lisle had once or twice half awakened in her was a thing to be subdued and dreaded.
'We missed you at the dinner, he said; 'and I hear you shirked the ball, too. I told him how it was, and he said he was glad that was all, and advised me to go and call on Colonel Deane and explain. I thought that the best way indeed, I meant it before, and was walking to his lodgings when Maurice de Courcy met me. 'Ha! he cries out, 'Morville!
Finally the men shirked their work, going off into the jungle by twos to explore and to hunt. All this time the camp had had no sight of Sheeta, or Akut and the other great apes, though Tarzan had sometimes met them in the jungle as he hunted.
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