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Time after time he had purposed making a confession to Mrs. Clover, time after time he "funked it" his own mental phrase and put it off. He grew discontented with his room at Mrs. Bubb's. In getting up these bright mornings he looked with entirely new distaste upon the prospect from his window at the back. Beneath lay parallel strips of ground, divided from each other by low walls.
This dress is like the one you wore the first night that we met. It's the same kind of stuff, it's just the same colour and the same style. Why, I see it all as plain as can be there at the opera. And you wore blue the day I tried to propose to you and couldn't, and asked you down to Wales instead. Lord, how I funked it!" He laughed, happily almost.
"It's all over," she said. "It may come back out there." "It won't. Out there you'll be happy. I saw Nicky on Sunday the minute before he was killed, Michael. And he was happy." "He would be." He was silent for a long time. "Ronny. Did Nicky know I funked it?" "Never! He knew you wouldn't keep out. All he minded was your missing any of it." She got up and put on her hat. "I must go.
Quite apart from the fact that life won't be worth anything to me without you, it will mean ruin as a man of honor if I go home alone. Every one will say every one that I funked the thing because your father " She hastened to speak. "That's a very urgent reason. I admit its force " She paused because there was a sound of voices overhead.
Although, otherwise, I had found him bold and fearless to desperation, he now evinced a nervous timidity about mounting the rigging that I didn't think he had in him. It seemed utterly unlike the dauntless Tom of old acquaintanceship on land. He said that he really "funked" going aloft, for it made his head swim when he looked down.
She was like the log. She refused to budge, funked the plunge, submitting to unending blows, and words which were almost worse than blows. And by her obstinacy and apathy she was driving the best man on God's earth to premeditated murder. That morning, let us remember, Tom had beaten the dog, and because she had interfered with a pitiful protest her husband had struck her close to the temple.
He was as ignorant of the possibilities of a horse as they were of his. And at this stage it would seem he funked. He knew this kind of stalking would make red deer or buffalo charge, if it were persisted in. At any rate Eudena saw him jump up and come walking towards her with the fern plumes held in his hand.
By to-morrow, or the next day at the latest, he would have enlisted; by six months, at the latest, three months if he had what they called "luck," he would be in the trenches, fighting and killing, not because he chose, but because he would be told to fight and kill. By the simple act of sending that letter to his mother he was committed to the whole ghastly business. And he funked it.
Presently, as she and her two companions wound slowly up the moor, Sir Luke Malford, who had only arrived the night before, inquired gaily of his hostess: "So she wouldn't come? the little wife?" "I gave her every chance. She scorned us." "You mean 'she funked us. Have you any idea, I wonder, how alarming you are?" Lady Dunstable exclaimed impatiently: "People represent me as a kind of ogre.
Instead of the forty girls she expected to meet, she saw not more than about half-a-dozen. They all crowded up to her at once. "I have got your ticket for you," said Susy. "I was just able to screw out the money to get one for you and myself. Here's the train; let us hop in at once." "But where are all the others the forty?" gasped Kathleen. "They funked it, almost all of them.
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