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And Mr Polly did at last take his fate into his own hands, commit arson, desert his wife and wander off, an "exploratious adventurer," as he might have put it, to discover some joy and poetry in life after a heroic battle that he funked most horribly and might have avoided.
If I'd stopped to think, I'd have funked the whole thing, I suppose jumping from that box onto the stage, and grabbing a lady in my arms, all in the open, as it were. But that wouldn't have been the natural man. The natural man that's in most of us, even when we're not very clever, does things right. It's when the conventional man comes in and says, Let us consider, that we go wrong.
They waited there in silence for five minutes, and once Hartley, with his back toward the house, struck a match under his sheltering coat, looked to see what time it was, and found it was three minutes past two. "He ought to be here," the man growled. "I don't like waiting. Good Lord, you don't think he's funked it, do you? Eh?" Ste.
"What a wicked beauty, eh, Mary?" he had said when the man brought round the half-broken filly that its owner "funked." And she had laughed and said: "Yes, an angel in a temper what a run you will have, Dad!" and had waved from the gate as the angel in a temper curveted away around the corner. Nothing could ever touch him.... And then the man on a bicycle with a dent in his hat, she noticed.
I've been two days in a caved-in tunnel in the Billy Broncho gold mine in New Mexico, an' was one of the four shut up for three parts of a day in the caisson what slid over on her side when we was settin' the foundations of the Buffalo Bridge. I've not funked an odd experience yet, an' I don't propose to begin now!
I always was afraid of them; when I was a kid and Mother used to send me with messages to that beastly spooky house they live in. I used to think it was poor old Grandpapa's ghost I funked. But I know now it wasn't. It was those four terrible women. They're ghosts. I thought you were afraid of ghosts." "I'm much more afraid of you, when you're cruel.
Edith, he informed me, had gone to church; he himself, being as nervous as a cat, had funked it; he was afraid lest he might get up in the middle of the sermon and curse the Vicar. "If that's so," said I, "come round here and talk sense. I've something important to say to you." He agreed and shortly afterwards he arrived. I was shocked to see him.
And as for talking, they'd just as soon expect speech from a jellyfish squashed by a steam-roller. If I do get through, I'll be a helpless crock all my days. I funked it till I thought of you. I thought the sight of another fellow who has gone through it and stuck it out might give me courage. I've had my wife here.
Five years of this Petersburg life went by, and, of course, during that time a great deal happened. Totski's position was very uncomfortable; having "funked" once, he could not totally regain his ease. He was afraid, he did not know why, but he was simply afraid of Nastasia Philipovna.
"What I mean is, must you or any of us assume responsibility for every criminal in the land?" Barry sat silent a moment, considering this proposition. "I wish I knew, dad. You know, I have often said that to excuse myself after I have funked a thing, and let something go by without speaking up against it." "Funked it!" "Yes. Funked standing up for the right thing, you know."
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