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Since the departure of the second aide-de-camp, who had been dispatched in quest of orders, this feeling of unrest had been increasing momentarily; men collected in groups, talking loudly and discussing the situation pro and con, and the general inquietude communicating itself to the officers, they knew not what answer to make to those of their men who ventured to question them.
Diez y ocho años tiene usted, y más bien más que menos, edad, por mi desgracia, en que ya se calcula y se tiene la experiencia necesaria para conocer lo que se quiere y lo que conviene. Por eso, Matilde, no tema usted que la importune con mis súplicas, ni la entristezca con el relato de mis padecimientos ... no por cierto ... ¿de qué serviría?
For more than three centuries civilized Europe has been discussing, pro or con, the question of religious liberty, but from instinct and with passion far more than with a serious understanding of what is at the bottom of things. Even in our own day it is not without difficulty that a beginning is being made to understand and accept that principle in its true sense and in all its bearings.
After he had been a week at his new employment, Con Murphy, the big teamster to whom he had been assigned by the foreman, with the injunction to "be easy on the lad, and give him plenty of time to get handy," was heard to say in public,
I paused to talk to the other officers; they say that they are sure that you are very beautiful and have a warm heart, and would like to send them a five-storey layer cake, half a dozen bottles of port and one Paris chef. At present I am the Dives of the mess and dole out luxuries to these Lazaruses. Good-bye for the present. Yours ever lovingly, CON. December 6th, 1916.
The boy and girl friends were then in a deep discussion of the chances, pro and con, of Betty's Uncle Dick taking her with him to Mountain Camp despite the imminent opening of the term at Shadyside. "Of course there is scarcely a possibility of his doing so," Betty said finally with hopeless mien. "Mr.
Conniston nodded, thinking that he began to guess Pete's troubles. "Don't you know can't you tell how Miss Jocelyn feels toward you, Pete? Is that it?" "That's it, only how in blazes you guessed it gets me! Con, I tell you, I can't tell nothin' for sure. It's worse 'n gamblin' on the weather.
Mattock bethought him that, on the whole, strange to say, Con O'Donnell comported himself decorously as a director, generally speaking on the reasonable side, not without shrewdness: he seemed to be sobered by the money question. 'That wife of his is the salvation of him, Rockney said, to account for the Captain's shrewdness. 'She manages him cleverly. He knows the length of his line.
Those not branded by this alleged bounty system were quick to grasp the beautiful simplicity of it all. Some recalled that a similar rumor, supposed to have originated with old Con Ristine, had wiped out the wild bunch that preyed on the Nations Cow-trail that the Gallatin clean-up had resulted from a like report which Al Moody was reported to have launched.
"We are all free from sickness, thank God," said Mave, whom the presence of Sarah caused to blush deeply; "but how are you all here? I am sorry to find that poor Nancy is ill and that Con has got a relapse." She turned her eyes upon him as she spoke, and, on contemplating his languid and sickly countenance, she could only, by a great effort, repress her tears.
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