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He was a man, and he had lived all his life among men. He could fight anything that was fightable. He could save her life, but after this slight attention to her comfort he had reached the limitations set by his purely masculine training. He lowered the shades so that the room was dusky and as cool as any other place in that fire-tortured land, and felt that he could no do more for her.
And the Pinkerton press only represents one tiny part of it. If the Pinkerton press were all, it would be fightable. But look at the Fact a sworn enemy of everything the Pinkerton press stands for, politically, but fighting it with its own weapons muddled thinking, sentimentality, prejudice, loose cant phrases.
Andy appraised him mentally, decided that he was an able-bodied man and therefore fightable, and threw his right leg over the cantle with a quite surprising alacrity. "Are you going to turn them sheep?" Andy was taking off his coat when he made that inquiry. "Not for your tellin'. You keep back, young feller, or I'll sick the dogs on yuh."
He took a short cut this time over the ridge and down a gully which was full of ring-barked trees and long white grass. He had nearly reached its mouth when a great greasy black goanna clambered up a sapling from under his feet and looked fightable. "Dang the jumpt-up thing!" cried the old man. "It 'gin me a start!"
The young men, looking in their Sunday clothes like awkward and tawdry imitations of their workaday selves, were instructed by Brother Spence; and Brother Bowden, being the kindliest, gentlest, most incapable man of the band of brothers, was given the charge of the boys' Second Class, a class of youthful heathen, rampageous, fightable, and flippant, who made the good man's life a misery to him, and were at war with all authority.
Only drunk and fightable as usual? or are you being chased by pink snakes with tiger's heads again, eh? There, sit quiet, old man. Where is Addie? For a few moments the old man made no answer; then he rose, and placing his trembling hands on Wallis's chest said brokenly, 'God help me, Tom! She's a-dyin'... an' I'm near drunk.
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