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"I might ask, sir," Dag Daughtry brazened it, "for your own papers. This ain't no regular cargo-carrier or passenger-carrier, no more than you gentlemen are a regular company of ship-owners, with regular offices, doin' business in a regular way.
It was worth an awful lot of money." "Well, well!" ejaculated Randolph. "I always thought he was a boy of no principle." "The tin box was found in his mother's trunk." "What did Luke say? Did he own up?" "No; he brazened it out. He said the box was given him to take care of by some mysterious stranger." "That's too thin. How was it traced to Luke?"
The present project of his life was to leave his troubles in England, Sexty Parker being the worst of them, and get away to Guatemala. In arranging this the good word of Mr. Slide might not benefit him, but his ill word might injure him. And then, let him do what he would, the matter must be made public. Should Mr. Wharton hear of it, as of course he would, it must be brazened out.
"To you?" "Yes. Of how he hated to be little, and how he triumphed when fame came at last." "I hate to be little " It was the first time that he had ever owned it. Even as a tiny boy he had brazened it out, boasting of his mental achievements and slurring the weakness of his stunted body. "I know," she had shut the kitchen door behind her, and they were standing in the hallway alone, "I know.
You see, if he had known that the drawings were all the time behind your book-case, he might have brazened it out, sworn that the drawings had been there all the time, and we could have done nothing with him. We couldn't have sufficiently frightened him by a threat of prosecution for theft, because there the things were in your possession, to his knowledge.
"No; he brazened it out, but of course the evidence was overwhelming." "So you discharged him?" "Yes; I did not dare to have him remain." "And you engaged your nephew in his place?" "Yes, sir. John happened to be here, and knew something of the duties, so I engaged him temporarily, subject, of course, to your approval." "Where is Andrew now? Have you seen him since?" "John saw him one day.
And then when things did begin to look bad for her, how she brazened it out, and what a desperate business it was to bring her shifts and prevarications to book! Convenience i We wonder at its being as hard often to discover convenience as it is to discover truth. But surely convenience is truth. ii The use of truth is like the use of words; both truth and words depend greatly upon custom. iii
The speech of McGregor was a challenge which Margaret, the modern daughter of one of our modern great men, could not well let pass. Had she not brazened out her timidity to go calmly among prostitutes and sordid muttering drunkards, serene in her consciousness of business- like purpose? "What is it you want?" she asked sharply.
"She is a good girl," cried Margaret emphatically. "Bless me, I said nothing to the contrary. But don't you think she is somewhat free with her opinions about other people?" asked Yates. "She did not know that you were within hearing when she first spoke, and after that she brazened it out. That's her way.
At last he brazened out an assurance that, however like, it was not his; that he could not tell how young ladies obtained miniature pictures; that, if the Rabbi would look, he would observe the hair and eyes to be much lighter. "Man!" exclaimed the Rabbi, fixing his keen black eye upon Burrell, "away from before me! Guilt and falsehood are on your lip.
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