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"And still," she retorted, "when I made myself subject to those terms, and obediently looked not upon the hidden mystery still the room of my desires became a trap betraying me into rude hands from which I narrowly escaped. And you you fled the scene of your wrong-doing, without so much as by-your-leave, and for these long weeks have wandered, irresponsible, among my hills.
Then Master Tom Heywood, with an ugly look at Carew, and without so much as an if-ye-please or a by-your-leave, led Nick up the brook to a spot where it had not been muddied by the horses, and made him wash his dusty face and hands in the cool water and dampen his hair, though he complied as if in a daze.
Who stole the cattle of the natives, calmly appropriated the choicest bits of valley land without so much as a by-your-leave, and who treated the rightful owners with contempt and as though they had no right to live in the valley where they were born.
I 'lows Seth would hate to worrit Rosie wi' things, but as I said we've got our dooty, an' it seems " "Dooty?" Ma chuckled. "Say, Rube, we'll write to the girl, you an' me. An' we don't need to ask no by-your-leave of nobody. Not even Seth." "Not even Seth." The two conspirators eyed one another slyly, smiled with a quaint knowingness, and resumed their supper in silence.
Commander Frank, therefore, could only recruit men who were willing to take a chance, who were willing to risk anything, even their lives, against tremendously long odds. And, even if they succeeded, the Imperial Government would take twenty per cent of the gross without so much as a by-your-leave.
Without a by-your-leave, Special Investigator Dundee resumed his comfortable seat, and laid the first of the volumes open upon his knees.
To be sure it does look rather strikin' on a white house; but then variety helps to relieve the monotony of a dead alive town like Durford; and if he don't like it plain, he can trim it green. I'll teach him to come paintin' my house without so much as a by-your-leave, or with-your-leave, lettin' the whole place think things."
"We had a misunderstanding, and it was all my fault, and I suppose she left this noon as soon as she could get away from us. She left a note for me. I found it when I came up to knock on her door. She said she was homesick." "I don't understand at all," said Judge Trent. "Sylvia gone back to the farm, without a by-your-leave to her hostess? Confoundedly bad manners I call it."
A smile twinkled in Hendon's eye, and he said to himself "By the mass, the little beggar takes to one's quarters and usurps one's bed with as natural and easy a grace as if he owned them with never a by-your-leave or so-please-it-you, or anything of the sort. In his diseased ravings he called himself the Prince of Wales, and bravely doth he keep up the character.
She cast down her eyes; her fingers plucked at the daisy-chain. After a while she shook her head. "I can't think," she answered, glancing up timidly and pitifully. "Surely we are wasting time," I suggested. To tell the truth I disapproved of his worrying the poor girl. He took the daisy-chain from her, looking at me the while with something between a "by-your-leave" and a challenge.
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