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That she was gifted in large measure with what the Americans so aptly termed cussedness he had good reason to know; and whether this very definite characteristic so far controlled her nature as to hold her nobler qualities in durance or were there nobler qualities? She had brain and common-sense; both attributes had compelled his respect long since.
In her opinion it was all pure 'cussedness. Catherine Leyburn had always conducted her life on principles entirely different from those of other people. Mrs. Thornburgh wholly denied, as she sat bridling by herself, that it was a Christian necessity to make yourself and other people uncomfortable. 'Yet this was what this perverse young woman was always doing.
In those Sierran altitudes, as elsewhere, the belief in original sin popularly known as "pure cussedness" dominated and overbore any consideration of passive, impelling circumstances or temptation, unless they had been actively demonstrated with a revolver. The passive expression of harshness, suspicion, distrust, and moroseness was looked upon as inherent wickedness.
Now, however, a different breed of Huns had come in and they had started the dirty work. They were Bavarians alternating with Marines, and we soon learned that for genuine low-down cussedness the Marine had them all beaten, although the Bavarians and Prussians were pretty bad. When we first began on them it was no unusual occurrence to have from ten to twenty good open shots a day.
"Look here, Lydia," he began, "Levine is up to some new cussedness. Old Susie came on him in council the other night with six of the worst half breeds in the reservation. She lost her head and began to jaw him so she didn't find out what it was about. And he's getting the last of my timber now. Lydia, you've got to help me. When you get home, talk to Levine."
If his two chips had not been thrown away he would have thrown them now, and still the feeling in him which people called cussedness was so strong that he could not repress a desire "to see what stuff she was made off." Taking Howard's vacant place he pushed himself forward until he was nearly in front of her, where he could look into her face.
Carlyle, greatest of critics, the supreme lord of literature that Scottish Arcturus before whom even Shakespeare's glorious star pals its ineffectual fires awards the palm of correlated cussedness to Cagliostro; yet the "count" was merely a successful swindler and professional pander.
'I saw your young er relative in earnest conversation with friend Monk this morning, said Marriott, later on in the day, to Gethryn; 'I thought you were going to give him the tip in that direction? 'So I did, said the Bishop wearily; 'but I can't always be looking after the little brute. He only does it out of sheer cussedness, because I've told him not to.
En besides all that," he cautioned, "we've got to go to the register's office en git a substitute brand, fer old Hulls has shorely carried off the old irons outa pure cussedness. Kin ye he'p us tomorry?" His question was directed to Adine Lough as the two got out of the car. "Yes, I've enlisted for the duration. I am anxious to learn if the new management is an improvement over the old.
He thought it was just old age and general cussedness. Injun Jim ate the jam, using a deadly looking knife and later his fingers, when the jam got low in the jar. When he had finished that he opened the can and drank the maple syrup just as he would have drunk whisky, with a relish.
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