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Now in this second year of his first term as Congressman and a promising member of the younger set of Southern lawyers, he had just taken active part in securing the election of Colonel William H. Langdon, present head of the family, to the United States Senate, though the ultimate action of the Legislature had been really brought about by a lifelong friend of Colonel Langdon, the senior Senator from the State, James Stevens, who had not hesitated to flatter Norton and use him as a cat's-paw.
If the small fish chased your flies, then you might as well go home or study nature; you would certainly get no trout. But you could never tell when the change would come. With the smallest occasion sometimes a coolness in the air, the run of a cat's-paw breeze, a cloud shadow drifting over a transformation would sweep over the speckled Ahabs lying deep under the lily pads.
"Look out for that wire just there! Do you see it? We've everything to keep the Boches off our front lawn except 'Keep off the grass! signs." It was perfectly still, a warm summer night without a cat's-paw of breeze. Through the dark curtain of the sky in a parabola rising from the German trenches swept the brilliant sputter of red light of a German flare.
A cloudless day, sea of deepest blue, without even the faintest cat's-paw to wrinkle its shining face; a morning warm, genial, windless, reminiscent of fairest summer, such a day as landsmen rejoice in, feeling that it is good to be alive.
Now I come to people whose histories I know by the absorption of a lifetime's experience. I know that it was Mrs. Bliven's husband we always called her that, of course who expected to arrest the pair of them as they crossed the Dubuque ferry; and that I was made a cat's-paw in slipping her past her pursuers and saving Bliven from arrest.
After the bracing climate of Japan, we felt the heat considerably. We had done so even when there was a breeze; it now fell calm. I scarcely before knew what a real calm at sea was. The ocean was literally as smooth as a sheet of glass not the slightest swell was perceptible not the faintest cat's-paw played over the water.
"Don't hasten, my young friend," said Hobson, eagerly. "Sit down, sit down; we have not laid our plans yet." "No, nor will we," was the reply. "If you think to make a cat's-paw of me in any of your dirty, contemptible pieces of work, you are mistaken. If you think that I came here with any intention of listening for one moment to any of your vile propositions, you are mistaken.
I have made my worst enemy my willing tool I have made Monsieur's own son my cat's-paw. I have left no end loose, no contingency unprovided for and I am ruined by a freak of fate." "I never knew a failure yet but what the fault was fate's," Mayenne returned. "Call it accident, then, call it the devil, call it what you like!" Lucas cried. "I still maintain it was not my fault. Listen, monsieur."
"Well, Mr Bowles," said the captain, as he rose to his feet, "what weather have you had? Is there any wind at all?" "Very little, sir," answered the chief mate, replying to the last question first; "just a cat's-paw from the west'ard bow and then, but nothing worth speaking about; and it's been the same all through the watch.
Rosa's tact was a quality that came and went; so she blushed, and faltered out, "We had a little tiff, as lovers will." "And you did me the honor to select me as cat's-paw to bring him on again. Was not that rather heartless?" Rosa's fitful tact returned to her. "Oh, sir, do not think so ill of me.
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