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'Did I not warn you of the folly and sin of sinking capital in foreign countries while English land was crying out for tillage, and English poor for employment? 'And pray, who told you that you were sent into the world to make investments? 'But 'But me no buts, or I won't stir a finger towards helping you. What are you going to do with this money if I procure it for you?
"There are no 'buts," he said. "You have heard my command. Obey it." Hal and Chester were dumfounded. As their guards turned and marched them in the direction of the general's quarters, Hal asked of Chester: "Do you remember him?" Chester nodded in the affirmative.
"You have a right to it," said Caroline: "I see, my dear sister, and feel all your kindness towards me, and all Mrs. Hungerford's I see what you both wish." "There's my own sister Caroline, above all artifice and affectation." "But," said Caroline. "But Oh! Caroline, don't go back don't palter with us abide by your own words, and your own character, and don't condescend to any pitiful buts."
'But! 'But me no buts! This is, without exception, the greatest thing out since an airship. It will win the war for us and the Allies, too, and don't you forget it! Fritz's barbed wire and dugouts and machine gun emplacements can't stand for a minute against these tanks!
Wilson, that it is my will to have it so, and I thought you knew me well enough to know that my will is unalterable. Therefore, if you please, let me hear no more about it." "But, my dear husband, the boy " "But, madam, I assure you there is no room for buts in the matter. Am I not master of my own house, and fully capable of governing it?"
"Does love take away dark thoughts, then or does it bring them?" "That depends upon the love," he told her, eagerly. "When it is great enough to be unselfish, it must bring peace and happiness, surely " "They are good things they are harmony but " "Yes what are the buts?" his voice trembled a little.
The speech of this false Charity betrayeth it, it flattereth with its lips; honey is on its tongue, but the poison of asps is underneath; beware of it! Even when it professes to commend a brother, or neighbor, it rolls up its sanctimonious eyes, and always puts a "but" in one of the devil's "buts."
"But we can't do that," objected Mr. Carson. "It's on Molick's land, and if we go there, and start something, he'll fight us. He is a desperate man." "And so ought you to be with your cattle dying of thirst," said Mr. Bellmore. "I am, but " "There aren't any buts about it," declared the other." This is a desperate situation, and we'll have to meet it desperately.
"No buts, Corbett," said Hardy, still smiling. "This is a great undertaking and we need the co-operation of every member of the expedition. In a few days we'll be arriving at Roald and the strain of this long trip will be over. Mr. Vidac is a capable man and I trust him implicitly, no matter how strange his methods may appear.
Fourthly, 'But that he would confirm you in your own. The first of these BUTS intimates a supposition in the mind of something otherwise than it should be; the latter shows that the mind makes a direct opposition between that and what goes before it.
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