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The new Secretary of War, John Armstrong, ironically referred to Procter and Harrison as being always in terror of each other, the one actually flying from his supposed pursuer after his fiasco at Fort Stephenson, the other waiting only for the arrival of Croghan at Seneca to begin a camp conflagration and flight to Upper Sandusky.
He turned away carelessly. "No offense, my dear Colonel. I thought, after your Arkansas fiasco, you might wish " "What Arkansas fiasco?" Nelson wheeled, and in spite of himself his voice cracked. "Ah! Another secret, eh?" Gray winked elaborately nothing could have been more deliberately offensive than that counterfeit of a friendly understanding. "Very well, I sha'n't say a word."
There are times when life presses hard on a man, and it pressed hard on Baxter now. Fate had played him a sorry trick. It had put him in a position where he had to choose between two courses, each as disagreeable as the other. He must either face a possible second fiasco like that of last night, or else he must abandon his post and cease to mount guard over his threatened treasure.
Kitty felt, but could not say, that she had never really tried to manage it; that as long as things had gone on without any open fiasco, and they had been able to enjoy themselves, and the servants had not been bad-tempered, she had been quite content. She could not make that confession now, and if she had it would not have done any good.
There was first a commonplace, sordid tale of bickering and quarrelling, with passionate jealousy on the part of the middle-aged husband, and callous, maddening indifference on the part of the now successful and brilliant actress To do Lorraine justice, she was not actively at fault. Her sense of fair play made her try sincerely to make the best of what had all along been an inevitable fiasco.
There was this confrontation, with the absurd testimonies of the two soldiers: it had proved a ridiculous fiasco. Also, he would have great difficulty in showing conclusively that Fandor had been a certain time at Châlons under Vinson's uniform. Dumoulin, mastering his emotion, resumed his official tone. "Fandor!"...
If there were any possible alleviating explanation, Memba Sasa made the most of it, provided our fiasco was witnessed. If we were alone in our disgrace, he buried the incident fathoms deep. He took an inordinate pride in our using the minimum number of cartridges, and would explain to me in a loud tone of voice that we had cartridges enough in the belt.
"By an extraordinary chance," he said, "you can do for me what no other man in creation could do. It was suggested to me unconsciously by the story of a book a book in which men change identities. I saw nothing in it at the time, but this morning, as I lay in bed, sick with yesterday's fiasco, it came back to me it rushed over my mind in an inspiration. It will save me and make you.
Would Louise overlook the morning's fiasco and allow him to take her? He broached the matter of finances to Mrs. Fletcher. "But what do you want two dimes for? Tell Mother." No, he wouldn't. But he had to have the two coins. Mrs. Fletcher studied him curiously. "Is there some little girl you want to take?" An evasive silence followed her question.
Fancy taking a girl to New York! It was plucky. 'It was all her doing, said Miles, who was of course intimate with Mr Melmotte's whole establishment, and had had means therefore of hearing the true story. 'What a fiasco! said the young lord.
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