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But I am bound to own the most ingenious of such arrangements are but clumsy remedies for natural deficiency. Man hasn't discovered how to make over his own body yet, and never will. The Almighty will always have the whip-hand of us when it comes to dealing with flesh and blood. All the same we've got to try these legs and things " Katherine winced, pressing her lips together.

For that reason we're planning a trust to include the raising and manufacturing of cotton in America. Then, too, cornering the cotton market here means the whip-hand of the industrial world. Gentlemen, it's the biggest idea of the century. It beats steel." Colonel Cresswell chuckled. "How do you spell that?" he asked.

"It's useless to ask me to account for my own conduct, at this time. I try and I can't understand it myself. "Why didn't I stop you, when you avoided me in that cruel manner? Why didn't I call out, 'Mr. Franklin, I have got something to say to you; it concerns yourself, and you must, and shall, hear it? You were at my mercy I had got the whip-hand of you, as they say.

She beat and cuffed the poor child from morning till night, but as the stepmother had the whip-hand of her husband there was no remedy. For two years Elsa suffered all this ill-treatment, when one day she went out with the other village children to pluck strawberries.

Arnold Brinkworth? No! He had had enough, at Windygates, of meeting her face to face. The easy way was to write to her, and send the letter, by the first messenger he could find, to the inn. She might appear afterward at Windygates; she might follow him to his brother's; she might appeal to his father. It didn't matter; he had got the whip-hand of her now. "You are a married woman."

Hepsey led the way to the parlor and seated herself, facing him judicially. In her quick mind the new evidence soon crystallized into proof of her already half-formed suspicions. She came straight to the point. "Is Bascom making you any trouble? If he is, say so, 'cause I happen to have the whip-hand so far as he's concerned. That Nelson's nothin' but a tool of his, and a dull tool at that."

The Englishman served them all with a certain contemptuous indifference in which one somehow felt the presence of the whip-hand.

"Any such arrangement is entirely a private matter between my husband and myself." "I doubt if John would agree to that arrangement now. He would make you a suitable allowance, of course." Olive could have choked this girl lying helpless in her chair, and yet holding the whip-hand in their triangle of conflicting interests. She felt as if she had been tripped and thrown without a word of warning.

It is a quality that has to be acquired. But the man of success and affairs ought to be the last person to complain of the difficulty of acquiring it. He has in his early days felt the whip-hand too often not to sympathise with the feelings of the under-dog. And he always knows that at some time in his career he, too, may need a merciful interpretation of a financial situation.

He jumped out of his chair, and hit me such a smack on the shoulder that I thought he had gone mad. "By Jupiter!" he cried out, "we have got the whip-hand of that she-devil at last." I looked at him in astonishment. "Why, man alive," he said, "don't you see how it is? Josephine's the thief! I am as sure of it as that you and I are talking together.