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"But it has been found again; we have it with us." Martinez gave a start, none the less sincere for being dramatic. "What! Saurez' deposition? Weir thought it burned. Why, this is the most wonderful luck in the world! It gives us the whip-hand again." Janet nodded. "Mary Johnson here found it in a crack in the rocks when she and her father went up to the cabin to bring Ed Sorenson down.
He would not have minded so much if there was any personal gratification in yielding to the lady's whip-hand commands. There are certain delights in self-surrender which give a zest to slavery, but there is no joy in being held a hostage.
"Pish," said Miss Qian, imperiously, "remember I've got the whip-hand, my boy. Just you tell me how Mrs. Krill came to strangle the " "Mrs. Krill?" Hay turned white again, and his eye-glass fell. "She had nothing to do with the matter. I swear " "Strikes me you swear too much, Mr. Hay. What about that opal brooch you stole from Beecot when he had the smash?" "I didn't steal it.
Tom never disobeyed his father, for Mr. Tulliver was a peremptory man, and, as he said, would never let anybody get hold of his whip-hand; but he went out rather sullenly, carrying his piece of plumcake, and not intending to reprieve Maggie's punishment, which was no more than she deserved.
However, as Pine had the whip-hand of him, he was obliged to yield, although he could not understand why the man should favor the Romany in this way. "Some of his infernal philanthropy, I suppose," said Garvington, in a tone of disgust, to the secretary. "Pine's always doing this sort of thing, and people ain't a bit grateful." "Well," said Silver dryly, "I suppose that's his look-out."
She would do her best to keep the girl in order it was lucky for him that he had fallen upon anybody so entirely respectable as herself and her husband but she would use her own judgment; and if monsieur made scenes, she would just turn out her boarder, and leave him to manage as he could. She had the whip-hand, and she knew it.
The other division of malaria-hunters pursued the trail of the Anopheles to her lair. There they discovered facts which give us practically the whip-hand over malarial and other tropical fevers whenever we choose to exercise it.
Later on, the purchaser, who did not take possession of the land for eight or nine years, feared it would not prove as fertile as Kenton had said, and threatened to sue Kenton; but Kenton evidently had the whip-hand in the controversy, for the land being out in the wilderness, the purchaser did not know its exact location, and when he threatened suit, and asked to be shown it, Kenton "swore that he would not shoe it at all."
And what the devil does it matter whether you suit one another as you call it or not, so long as you keep the whip-hand? You'll tell me next that you're not in love with her, I suppose?" The bitterness of the last words seemed to shake him from head to foot. He looked at Piers with the memory of a past torment in his eyes. And because of it Piers turned away his own.
He'll have to lose hundreds of thousands, and more. It will send him wild with terror. Think what that'll mean! Think how he'll cringe and whine and implore! It'll be like plucking out his heart. I have the whip-hand of him now, and he shall dance to my tune. I shouldn't be surprised if compulsory honesty and the restoration of ill-gotten wealth were to kill him." "Mary, Mary, be calm!"
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