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"Yes." "Hard up?" "I can live a few days but " "Hain't no buts. You kin live as long as I say so. You stay hitched to this here hitchin' post, and I'll 'tend to the money. Jest don't do nothin' but be where you be and be makin' up your mind if Homer's the boy you kin love and cherish, or if he's nothin' but a sort of shady restin' place.... G'-by." He got up abruptly and went out.
"Nothing, father only but " "But me no buts," replied Sir John in a tone of irritation. "Nothing can be more natural than a young girl's wish to see her future home. I shall telegraph to Mrs. Bernard Temple to let her know that we shall be pleased to give Miss Drummond a hearty welcome." Sir John rose from his chair as he spoke, and a moment later left the room.
And if you want to know anything more about it, you will have to wait, for I am not going to make any explanations now. I am too happy to know that I have a dear uncle left to me in this world, and to know that we two are going to live together always to want to talk about whys and wherefores." "But, Olive" exclaimed the captain. "There are no buts," she interrupted.
Then indeed he might enter the chambers of pain and fear and guilt with the innocent confidence of a winged angel of comfort and healing! But now the eyes of his understanding were blinded with the IFS and BUTS that flew swarming like black muscae wherever they turned. Still he would nay, he must go and do his best.
Thus, while I grant that a change of name for that dog is a question belonging to the policy of Ifs and Buts, commonly called the policy of Expediency, about which one may differ from others and one's own self every quarter of an hour, a change of name for me belongs to the policy of Must and Shall; namely the policy of Necessity, against which let no dog bark, though I have known dogs howl at it!
But yes, I know there are no buts in your dictionary, Madame, I know there aren't but I have an engagement to-night that I have sworn " "What engagement, sir?" said Mr. Sagittarius, sternly. "You have sworn to us. You must know that." "I have sworn to almost everyone," cried the distracted Prophet. "But this swear I mean this oath must be kept before yours." "Before ours, sir?"
Look you," he resumed, with a very slight compression of his lip, and a still slighter movement in his chair, "look you, this is no question of ifs and buts! it is a question of must and shall, a question of existence to you and to me.
Do you think I am going to let Hilda Merritt stand between my child and happiness?" "It's awfully good of you, sir," Derry's voice was husky with feeling, "but " "There are no 'buts. You must let me have my own way; I shall consider it a patriotic privilege to support one soldier and his little wife." He was riding above the situation splendidly. He even had visions of straightening things out.
"You know my name!" cried Danvers, "but are wrong in supposing that I will stand an affront. If you are a gentleman " "If? Couldn't you waive ifs and buts long enough to try the Weehauken experiment and then investigate my pedigree? The question is, are you a man or a dastard?" "Swaller your fire, young salamander," broke in the captain of the boat. "We hain't got no time to fuss nor fight duels.
I wasn't playin' you fer a sucker, an' yer straight goods. Jes' shove de boodle in yer breast pocket, an' don't show it to no one. Dere's some here as would take it off you quick enough." "But " "Dere ain't no buts in dis game it's a straight deal, an' we've split even. If you'd been a crook, well, God knows how we'd a-panned out.
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