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"Don't you be too cocksure," said I. "It isn't all over but the shouting by a very long chalk. If you notice, there's been some rain falling here, and down on the flat there's been a lot by the look of it. I'm afraid that will mean heavy going for our wheels." As we got down to the level this evil prophecy showed itself a true one.
Go your ways, an' knaw you'm in the prayers of a man whose prayers be heard." "Then pray for Joan. If you'm so cocksure you gets a hearin' 'fore us church folks, 'tis your fust duty to plead for her." "It was," he said. "Now it is too late, I've sweated for her, an' wrastled wi' principalities an' powers for her, an' filled the night watches by sea an' shore wi' gert agonies o' prayer for her.
Besides, she really did not owe him any courtesy, after the way he had dared to treat her. But he only laughed at her, and turned to the door. "I shouldn't be so cocksure of that if I were you," he said, opening it with a flourish. "I have a wonderful knack of getting what I want." She flung him the gauntlet of her contemptuous defiance as she passed him. "Really?" she said.
It is the origin and justification of the habit of political compromise. Secondly, it is not easy after all to be cocksure as to what men will or will not agree to until they are directly faced with the task of decision. It is not easy to tell at what point in the conflict of "opposite convictions" an end may be made of the conflict.
I was at Berkeley at the time, a cocksure junior; and she, far maturer as a freshman, was at Stanford, carrying more culture with her into her university than is given the average student to carry out. Next, and here your arms open to her, she is a poet. Pre-eminently she is a poet this must be always understood.
I suppose my own failure at a thing in which I was cocksure of success had made me a bit dubious about anybody I care for starting so serious an undertaking as marriage under any sort of handicap. I do like Charlie Benton and Linda Abbey. They are marrying in the face of her people's earnest attempt to break it up. The Abbeys are hopelessly conservative.
"H'm," said Rolf, "'it just shows, as old Sylvanne sez, 'this yer steel-trap, hair-trigger, cocksure jedgment don't do. An' the more a man learns, the less sure he gits. An' things as hez lasted a long time ain't liable to be on a rotten foundation." The Charm of Song With a regular tum ta tum ta, came a weird sound from the sunrise rock one morning, as Van slipped out of his cabin.
They were not a people who could cut and dry their sentiments; they were all impulse and simplicity, with an obvious cocksure shrewdness too, like that of Jean Jacques of the old Jean Jacques. He had been the epitome of all their faults and all their virtues. No one cheered.
If ever I felt tempted to believe our engagement was getting to be the real thing, why, I said to myself, 'Wait till she sees March again before you begin to be cocksure, my man. Well, now you've seen him. And I guess you've seen in the same minute that our experiment has failed." "I'm afraid that's true, Tony!" I sighed. "I can't help it! It wouldn't be fair to you for us to go on as we are.
But old Dovedale stole him from me bribed him by higher pay. Since then I have had nothing but clerks rent-collectors rascally makeshifts, all of them." "But I know nothing about land I have had no experience!" "A misfortune but in some ways to the good. I don't want any cocksure fellow, with brand-new ideas lording it over me. I should advise you of course."
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