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"No, I was to go to Vaucouleurs, and Robert de Baudricourt would give me soldiers to go with me to France; and I answered, saying that I was a poor girl who did not know how to ride, neither how to fight." Then she told how she was balked and interrupted at Vaucouleurs, but finally got her soldiers, and began her march. "How were you dressed?"
Ellen, too, rose to the occasion when she got 6 x 7, which Elizabeth Ann could sometimes remember and sometimes not. And then, oh horrors! It was her turn again! Her turn had never before come more than twice during a mental arithmetic lesson. She was so startled by the swiftness with which the question went around that she balked on 6 x 6, which she knew perfectly.
Throughout the sessions it was Laurier rather than Chamberlain who dominated the Conference. Balked in his desire to effect political or military centralization, Chamberlain turned anew to the possibilities of trade alliance.
"Do you remember," says he, "that expedition of ours in Kingston Harbor, and how we were all of us balked that night?" then, without waiting for Barnaby's reply: "And do you remember what I said to that villain Jack Malyoe that night as his boat went by us?
But I thought you would stand by your friend " "And so I will, to the last " Not being of a theatrical temperament, Dade balked at protestations of his loyalty. "Jack and I have worked and fought and played elbow to elbow for a long time, Don José. But I don't mix into his personal quarrels, unless I see him getting a crooked deal. I believe you'll fight fair. The rest lies between you two."
At such times she would storm at the men in the stable-yard and call them ill names for their impudence in letting the beast go, which would cause them great merriment, as she knew nothing of who the man was who had balked her, since she was, in truth, not so much as conscious of her father's existence, never having seen or even heard more of him than his name, which she in no manner connected with herself.
The object of this war is to deliver the free peoples of the world from the menace and the actual power of a vast military establishment controlled by an irresponsible government which, having secretly planned to dominate the world, proceeded to carry the plan out without regard either to the sacred obligations of treaty or the long-established practices and long- cherished principles of international action and honour; which chose its own time for the war; delivered its blow fiercely and suddenly; stopped at no barrier either of law or mercy; swept a whole continent within the tide of blood not the blood of soldiers only, but the blood of innocent women and children also and of the helpless poor; and now stands balked but not defeated, the enemy of four fifths of the world.
She meant to marry him to a demoiselle d'Aiglemont with a fortune of twelve thousand francs a year; to whose hand the name of Portenduere and the farm at Bordieres enabled him to pretend. This narrow but judicious plan, which would have carried the family to a second generation, was already balked by events.
We were never afraid of hardship or physical pain, danger or death, but we couldn't face conditions; we balked and quit in the face of circumstance; we retired always before the economic onslaught of the Anglo-Saxon." "Ah, but you're Anglo-Saxon," she sobbed. "You belong to the race that doesn't quit that somehow muddles through."
Robbie Lee had drawn his barefoot friend, John, thus far. He had balked and refused to go farther. "Come on, John," Robbie pleaded. "I'm skeered." "Scared of what?" "Colonel Lee." "Didn't you come to see him?" "I thought I did." "Well, didn't ye?" "Yes." "Come on, then!" "No " "What you scared of him for?" "He's a great man." "But he's my Papa." "He don't want to be bothered with little boys."
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