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Updated: May 12, 2025
The hovel is an illustration of the author's general teaching that a human being must have reasonable liberty of action for self-development. The heart must be allowed fair-play, though its guidance by the intellect is desirable. It has been objected that this moving romance ends in unnecessary tragedy; that the catastrophe is not inevitable.
"I guess the very best case I can make for myself is the absolute naked truth." "It is my duty to warn you that it will be used against you," cried the inspector, with the magnificent fair-play of the British criminal law. Slaney shrugged his shoulders. "I'll chance that," said he. "First of all, I want you gentlemen to understand that I have known this lady since she was a child.
If the innocent are often unjustly punished imprisoned and maltreated before their innocence can be established the guilty seldom escape. In England we give the criminal not only every chance of escape, but many advantages. The love of fair-play is carried to excess.
"We won't have much meat wasted if they stay around," remarked John, ruefully. "For my part, I wish they'd go. It's trouble enough to take care of one native, let alone more than a dozen." The chief seemed to be actuated with some sense of fair-play, or else wished to continue in the good graces of the whites. Some of the men began to boil a kettle and to make tea.
"Well, Crux," said the scout, at the conclusion of his visit, "you know your own affairs best but, rememberin' as I do, what you used to be, I thought there was more of fair-play about you." "Fair-play! What d'ye mean?" "I mean that when folk let you alone, you used to be willin' to let them alone.
Finally, with a sort of noble rebound of effort, the exhausted instructor is to put a vast deal of information back into the girl before the student claps her book together and rushes pell-mell to the next classroom, there to be similarly uncorked, if the teacher has learned the art and her mental muscle is sufficient. Such a conception of a classroom is not fair-play.
"But we might compromise the matter. I might have mine a little sooner and you could have yours a little later." Still Jenkins shook his head. "Not fair-play," he said. "All the advantage on your side. However, we might consider it. Hold a sort o' drum-head court-martial over it, with Elise and Elspie as judges."
"I know that," ses Isaac; "you keep still, Peter, and see fair-play, and I'll knock you silly arterwards." He pushed some o' the things into a corner and then 'e spat on 'is 'ands, and began to prance up and down, and duck 'is 'ead about and hit the air in a way that surprised 'em.
For Septimus Marvin, vaguely recalling some schoolboy instinct of fair-play, knew the place of the gentleman and the man of education among humbler men in moments of danger and hardship, which should, assuredly, never be at the back. "Yonder's parson," some one muttered. "His head is clear enow, I'll warrant, when he hears 'John Darby."
"He will let you read my letter, and you will see by it that I expect he will have a finger in the pie not to take part in the war, but just to look on and kind of see fair-play, you know, and umpire us when we fall out. He is a nice fellow, people say." "There is no one like him," said Harry, with that hearty enthusiasm which all the lads of Lunda displayed when their chief was mentioned.
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