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He was speaking with such deliberation that he did not once twist his words or expressions about, as he often did when excited and in a hurry. "That's why you wasn't put in at the start-off," he declared. "What is why? You will have to make the whole matter plainer than you have so far. It is hazy." "Putnam did not want Pierson to see you pitch." "He didn't? Why not?"
"Lucky I started in on those costume and make-up tests of all you fellows, and that scene of your wife's. And if I'd used the other half barrel instead of this five-gallon keg for a start-off, I'd have spoiled the whole bunch. I'll have to throw out all that developer. Blast the luck! Well, let's get busy." He pulled out the keg and held it up for another disgusted look.
This latter was in mechanics and metallurgy; and I hesitated between the two. The Vincent Bradley gave me L70 a year and quite the best start-off a pharmaceutical chemist could have; the South Kensington thing was worth about twenty-two shillings a week, and the prospects it opened were vague.
"I'm on good terms with everybody at home, and I wouldn't want, right at the start-off, as you might say, to have anybody think I was trying to take water away from him. And yet I like the country. I thought maybe you could advise me what to do. It seems like a lot of gall asking you, too; you having land for sale and me thinking of buying the company's. But, then, I saw their advertising.
The tap-room was crowded that night, but we all 'ad to pay threepence each coining money, I call it. Some o' the things wot he done was very clever, but a'most from the fust start-off there was unpleasantness.
But it's a very different thing, I can tell you, in Boston: I should have to go in for a course in the Harvard Law School, just for a little start-off." Marcia was silenced, but she asked, after a moment, "Then you're going to give up the law, altogether?" "I don't know what I'm going to do; I'm going to do the best I can for the present, and trust to luck.
"It's a great piece of good fortune Mother selected only pink bulbs and a few yellow ones to put back into the ground and gave the other colors to Grandmother." "That helps you at the very start-off.
If the gleanings were small, he would use the dishwater he was a frugal man and with that for the start-off he would make soup, which the Indians gulped down with great relish and many gurgly sounds. Buddy watched them eat what he called pig-dinner. When Step-and-a-Half was not looking he saw them steal whatever their dirty brown hands could readily snatch and hide under their blankets.
And then in two minutes they were off, and Roberta, feeling the saddle beneath her and Colonel's familiar tug on the bit at the start-off he was always impatient to get away was realizing that the worst, at least for the present, was over. "Which way?" called Stephen, who was leading with Rosamond. "Out the road past the West Wood marshes, please straight out.
"I could see 'em eyin' you over when they first came in, and I could see that they didn't exactly like the looks of 'em. It would wear off in time, but it takes time for it to wear off; and it had to go pretty rusty for a start-off. Well, I don't know as it makes much difference to you, does it?" "Oh, I thought we got along very well," said Bartley, with a careless yawn.
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