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The duty on sugar was retained at a point favorable to the trust. In brief, then, the Act of 1897 was aggressively protectionist. An abortive section of the act empowered the President to conclude treaties providing for reductions, as great as twenty per cent., in return for commercial concessions from other countries.
I'd like to get outside these walls for half a day." "I detest whiskers," decided Lady Jane. "So do I, especially Turk's. But they're vastly convenient, just the same. In a couple of days Turk won't know himself when he looks in the mirror. I believe I'll try to cultivate a bunch." "I'm sure they would improve you very much," said Lady Jane, aggressively. "What is your idea as to color?"
Jim's heart, despite his utmost efforts to be hopeful, was sinking. "You know I found a little kid," he said, less aggressively. "And some one's taken him off stole him that's what they've done, and I'll bet a bit it's you!" "Wal, if I ever!" cried Miss Doc, her eyes lighting up dangerously. "Did you come down here to tell me right to my face I stole from your dirty little shanty?"
But I ain't goin' to die without bein' able to remember some poor child that's better off because lived." "What can I do to help?" asked Hamilton eagerly and aggressively, as though he expected instant marching orders to some distant factory. "You can do somethin', every boy can do somethin'. If nothin' else, you can help to wake a sleepin' an' selfish nation.
These expectations were backed with all the available Bar-20 money, and, if they were not realized, something in the nature of a calamity would swoop down upon and wrap that ranch in gloom. Since the O-Bar-O was aggressively optimistic the betting was at even money, hats and guns, and the losers would begin life anew so far as earthly possessions were concerned.
"You're doing wonderful work, Martin," said that official. "It's coming along splendidly. But but I understand there's a bit of a laugh going around among the railroad men about you." "About me?" Garrity's chest bulged aggressively. "An' who's laughin?" "Nearly everybody in the railroad game in Missouri.
"When we arranged about these rooms, there were certain properties that went with them the lady next door who plays Paderewski's 'Minuet' six hours a day, and K. here, and Reginald. If you must take something to the woods, why not the minuet person?" Howe was a good-looking man, thin, smooth-shaven, aggressively well dressed.
They have added industrial pursuits to agricultural, possess flour mills, timber mills, and plough their farms with German implements. They are aggressively German in sentiment, language, character and Kultur. That in brief is the history of one type of German colonization in the Tsardom. There is another at which it may not be amiss to cast a glance.
He rose, squaring his shoulders aggressively, and stepped toward her with a reddening brow; but she held her footing, though every nerve tore at her to retreat as he advanced. "Pay up?" she faltered. "Do you mean that I owe you money?" He laughed again. "Oh, I'm not asking for payment in kind.
He was reminded in the least degree of Stephanie; but this girl's chin was firmer and more delicately, though more aggressively, rounded. Her eyes, too, were shrewder and less evasive, though subtle enough. "So I meet you again," he observed, with a somewhat aloof air, as she came out on the porch and sank listlessly into a wicker chair. "The last time I met you you were hard at work in New York."
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