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Under such circumstances the law allows him to surrender, not to the mob, but to a friendly power which shall protect the interests of all concerned. He goes into the hands of a receiver, who will straighten out his affairs for him. I can imagine the relief which would come to one who could thus get rid, for a while, of his harassing responsibilities, and let some one else do the worrying.
When we get at those birds " "When," echoed the gloomy one. "They were pigeons," Estelle explained. "They shouldn't be hard to snare or trap." "I usually have my dinner before now," the gloomy one protested, "and I'm told I won't get anything to-night." The other men began to straighten their shoulders. The peevishness of one of their number seemed to bring out their latent courage.
On the very edge of leaping forward, Harrigan was astonished to see McTee straighten from his crouch and point out to sea. "The eye of God!" muttered the Scotchman. "She was right!" Harrigan jumped back lest this should prove a maneuver to place him off his guard, and then looked in the indicated direction. It was true; a point of light, a white eye, peered at them from far across the water.
Miss Lucretia may have had her own ideas about the propriety of the reference to the vestal fire. "Gamaliel," she said sharply, "straighten up and don't talk nonsense to me. I've had you on my knee, and I knew your mother and father." Gamaliel did straighten up, as though Miss Lucretia had applied a lump of ice to the small of his back.
Now, I'll sweep, Mopsy, and you find something that'll do for a duster, and we'll straighten up the place in less than no time." Molly was a brave little housekeeper, and though Marjorie knew less about it, she was an apt pupil, and the whole performance seemed great fun. In less than an hour the two girls had quite transformed the room.
And Joel's face dropped so dismally that she was at her wits' end to know how to straighten out the trouble. Just then one of the Henderson boys came up to the door with a little pat of butter in a dish for Mrs. Pepper. "Here comes Peletiah Henderson," announced Polly, catching sight of him through the window. "Now, p'r'aps he can stop and play with you, Joel."
Do not allow your uncle to sell any wheat forward to you, and persuade him to sow every acre that belongs to you this spring." "But however would this benefit you?" asked the girl. Winston laughed. "I have a fancy that I can straighten up things at Silverdale, if I can get my way. It would please me, and I believe they want it. Of course a desire to improve anything appears curious in me!"
"Ef you 'lows us t' come heah an' straighten out you' close, an' mend 'em you dunno how happy you mek me an' Hester des to do dat much, Mis' Brice." The note of appeal was irresistible. Mrs. Brice rose and unlocked the trunks. "You may unpack them, Nancy," she said. With what alacrity did the old woman take off her black bonnet and shawl! "Whaffor you stannin' dere, Hester?" she cried.
And I give you my solemn word of honor that I didn't know she was a girl till this evening, and that, right away after I found it out, I come down here to straighten things out with you if I could. Will you believe it?" It was a strange study to watch the working in the face of Cartwright of hope, passion, doubt, hatred. He leaned closer to Sinclair, his big hands clutched together.
Put him in the midst of a seething mass of soldiery, he could command, straighten out chaos into mechanical perfection of order, guide willing men unquestioned into the jaws of Hell; put him on the stage of a music-hall and he could keep six plates in the air at a time. Outside these two spheres he could, as far as the world would try him, do nothing. He had to live. He was young, under forty.
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