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Robert wants to know why I didn't let 'em know I was goin' all the way to Washington after them stamps. "Chee!" says I, "but you're gettin' restless! Maybe you think I oughter travel by pneumatic tube? Huh!" There's nothin' wins out surer in this town of New York than puttin' up a good front.
I stood it for a week and I must say, much as I dislike my brother-in-law, that he has something to put up with. If only he got into a passion like a man and killed her it wouldn't be altogether incomprehensible." "That does not concern us," said Carrados. "In a game of this kind one has to take sides and we have taken ours. It remains for us to see that our side wins. You mentioned jealousy, Mr.
"'Well, the owner of the goose goes round with his hat, and gets so much a-piece in it from every one that enters for the "Pullin';" and when all have entered, they bring their hosses in a line, one arter another; and at the words, 'Go ahead! off they set, as hard as they can split; and as they pass under the goose, make a grab at him; and whoever carries off the head, wins.
"He wins the victory, but lets the enemy take it." "It may be so. But to come closer home, what about the Yankee spy in Richmond? It's an established fact that a man of most uncommon daring and skill is here." "No doubt of it, what's the latest from him?" "The house of William Curtis was entered last night and robbed." "Robbed of what?" "Papers. The man never takes any valuables."
"There's one thing I must say about Mort," he dryly observed: "he's cheerful when he wins." "He can brag harder and louder than any man I ever heard," admitted iron-faced Joe Close. Colonel Bouncer, puffing out his red cheeks and snarling affectionately at his friend Washer, corroborated that statement emphatically. "He's bragged ever since he was a boy," he stated.
"In Europe we fight on open ground, where the best man wins; we do not skulk behind the trees and through the underbrush. I've a good notion to try a sally. What say you, Stewart?" "Here comes Colonel Washington," I answered. "Let us ask him." But he shook his head when we proposed it to him. "'Twould be madness," he said.
'I am a prisoner! you cried at first not more than that. But you said it like a lady, a noblewoman. I admired you then because you faced me whom you had never seen before with no more fear than had I been a private and you my commanding officer." "Fear wins nothing." "Precisely. Then let us not fear what the future may have for us. I have no directions beyond this point, Pittsburg.
Still, even this does not often happen; they would rather chance the good thing they doubted of than underrate their readers' judgment. The young author who wins recognition in a first-class magazine has achieved a double success, first, with the editor, and then with the best reading public.
It was better that he should make the sacrifice, than that the minds of the masses should be disquieted. Was there, he asked, any real hardship in that? Yes, replies Fitzjames, there would be the greatest and most cruel injustice. 'It would be a disgrace to the English name and nation. A young man goes to England and wins a place in the Civil Service.
The old Greek tyrants loved her; great Rhamses seated her at his right hand; every prince had his singers. Now we dwell in an age of democracy, and Poetry wins but a feigned respect, more out of courtesy, and for old friendship's sake, than for liking. Though so many write verse, as in Juvenal's time, I doubt if many read it. "None but minstrels list of sonneting."
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