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You work for twenty-eight shillings a week because you are foolish. You can do it if you like, if it affords you any satisfaction to make a martyr of yourself for the sake of bolstering up a conventional system. Either that or you have not the spirit for adventure." "The spirit for adventure," Arnold repeated quietly.
It was the practical politician's caustic estimate of conditions. Then the chairman joined in, bolstering this supercilious view: "As for that legislature how many bills were ever passed in our legislature over a governor's veto after we had got in our work? We are going to have a safe man for governor. That band's lungs won't last for ever. Colonel Dodd, are you ready?"
The repeated decrees of this nature, the object of which was to depreciate the value of gold, and increase the illusive credit of paper, began to awaken doubts of a system which required such bolstering. Capitalists gradually awoke from their bewilderment. Sound and able financiers consulted together, and agreed to make common cause against this continual expansion of a paper system.
We are only two but others will follow. I know it is difficult! it is harassing and often heartbreaking to insist on Truth when the whole world's press is at work bolstering up false gods, false ideals, false art, false sentiment, but if we are firm- -if we hold an unflinching faith, we shall conquer!" "You are brave!" said Cyrillon with a glance of mingled trust and admiration.
Nobody can be more kind, considerate, or sympathizing towards weakness or weariness than men, if they only know it exists; and it is a wrong to them to go on bolstering them up in their bungling opinions, when a few sensible ideas, wisely administered, would do so much to enlighten them, and reveal the path which needs only to be revealed to secure their unhesitating entrance upon it.
I admire your zeal, but not your plan." "Yes," agreed Phil, who stood near; "I sometimes think Teddy Tucker's moral code does need bolstering up a bit." "What's that?" questioned Teddy. "What's a moral code?" "I'll explain it to you some other time when we are not so busy," replied Phil. "Nor so wet," added Mr. Sparling. "You see, we want to come to this town to show again some other time."
All her father's old letters, written to her when she was a child, were unbundled and read over again, and some of his manuscript sermons had the dust of years shaken from their leaves that she might con their pages written in the dear, familiar hand. If she had had her decision to make over again without any bolstering from Mrs.
The major is bolstering things from week to week now until the Plantagould people get what they are after a controlling majority of the stock and then Judge MacFarlane will come back." They were within two squares of the Clarendon, and the cross-street was deserted save for a drunken cow-boy in shaps and sombrero staggering aimlessly around the corner. "That's curious," Loring remarked.
I replied, also in a whisper, that I would not run the risk of being posted as a liar by bolstering up an imposture. The ease with which a rogue invites a gentleman to share in a knavery is astonishing; he must think his confidence confers an honour. At the end of the first act a score of lackeys in the prince's livery took round ices to the front boxes. I thought it my duty to refuse.
But their efforts were unnecessary; the trap required no bolstering; for with the first cries from the jungle came an answering shout, and behind the ridge where Rolfe and Little and old Bill Blunt lay appeared these watchful guards with a dozen Dutch seamen alongside them; and the arrows had barely reached their mark, harmless, when a single, blasting volley of musketry drove the intruding natives shrieking to cover, never to risk another attack.
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