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"Is it true, sir?" "Begad, yes, it is true, of course it's true. Amory's dead. I tell you he is dead. The first sign of life he shows, he is dead. He can't appear. We have him at a deadlock, like the fellow in the play the 'Critic, hey? dev'lish amusing play, that 'Critic. Monstrous witty man, Sheridan; and so was his son. By Gad, sir, when I was at the Cape, I remember "
The silent witness to these festivities of years ago, the great hau-tree, still stands. It was at this time that Stevenson began work on the scheme of his book on the South Seas. This was one of the rare occasions when he and his wife reached a deadlock in their opinions, and, unfortunately for the success of the book, he refused to accept her advice.
"Instinct in women is as strong as the perspicacity of great men. "'You wanted an answer to your letter, did you not? And there was but one man in the world who could write it. You must read the reply, my dear Countess; and if after reading it you still find that your life is a deadlock, the spy will prove himself a friend; I will place you in a convent whence the Count's power cannot drag you.
To her recognition of this deadlock of Fate, there had been adding the growing disturbance caused by yet another thing which was increasingly troubling, increasingly difficult to face. Gradually, and at first with wonderful naturalness of bearing, Nigel Anstruthers had managed to create for himself a singular place in her everyday life.
I wondered what papa would say next, or whether our talk had come to a deadlock then and there. I had a great deal more myself to say; but the present opportunity seemed to be questionable. And then it was gone; for Mr. Dinwiddie mounted the hill and came to take a seat beside us. "Any news, Mr. Dinwiddie?" was papa's question, as usual. "From America." "What sort of news?"
A School Board was the only alternative, and, as all the old managers refused to become members and no one else would undertake the responsibility, a deadlock ensued. We were threatened by the Education Department that, failing a Board of parishioners, they would appoint for the post any outsiders, non-ratepayers, who could be induced to volunteer.
The differences on the republican issues being fundamental were likewise irreconcilable. The Nationalists stood pat on secession while the South African Party remained loyal to its principles of Imperial unity. The meeting ended in a deadlock. Smuts, a field marshal of politics, at once saw that the hour of deliverance from his dilemma had arrived.
He was a man who saw whole vistas of probability in a moment, and who was correspondingly quick in making decisions. "We're at a deadlock," said he. "You're a clever boy, Dav, or Turl, I might as well call you. I know the game's against me, and Turl you shall be from now on, for all I've ever got to say.
A great many ballots were taken, and there was a good deal of "log-rolling" and "buttonholing," as the politicians call it, on behalf of the various candidates by their special friends. But all this did no good. There was a deadlock. No one of the candidates was able to obtain a two-thirds majority, which, according to Democratic law, was the number necessary to a nomination.
Honesty, Justice, Reason, were not to him mere words to decorate sonorous messages or to catch and placate the hearers of his passionate speeches; they were the most real of all realities, moral agents to be used to clear away the deadlock into which Civilization was settling. In taking the oath of office at Buffalo, Roosevelt promised to continue President McKinley's policies.
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