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"Judging from what you all, say" remarked Aunt Jamesina, "the sum and substance is that you can learn if you've got natural gumption enough in four years at college what it would take about twenty years of living to teach you. Well, that justifies higher education in my opinion. It's a matter I was always dubious about before." "But what about people who haven't natural gumption, Aunt Jimsie?"
Harry was letting down, and he got his feet wet in it. "Confound that Englishman," he said, backing out of the water, and wiping his boots on the grass. "He hasn't even gumption enough to throw down a load of stone there. Drive in, Laura, and I'll put up the bars." Fleetfoot took us through the opening, and then Mr. Harry jumped into the buggy and took up the reins again.
See if you've got gumption enough to round her to. This was simply BOUND to be a success; nothing could prevent it; for he had never allowed me to round the boat to before; consequently, no matter how I might do the thing, he could find free fault with it.
They began to feel, as John had said, that "nothing save disaster was meant for Sobrante folks;" yet, after a moment, "Forty-niner" perceived another side of the matter, and expressed himself thus: "What's got into the pack of us? Seems if we'd lost our gumption. After all, couldn't anything have happened likelier, so far forth as I see.
There was no sign of any steamer the steamships agent had given her up; and not wishing our luggage to lie on the beach all night for gumption was not one of the characteristics written on our pock-marked boy's face we sent a messenger off on the two hours and a half ride down to Martine to summon him back. About one o'clock, just as we were sitting down to lunch in Mr.
'There's only one man between us and a hundred thousand dollars in gold. And Falk Kipping was talking to Falk low-like and didn't know I was anywhere about and Falk says, 'No, that's too much. Then he says, wild-like, 'Shoot go on and shoot. Then Kipping laughs and says, 'So you've got a little gumption, have you? and he shot Captain Whidden and killed him. Don't point that pistol at me, sir!
I'm going to have a new cloak, lass, and I cannot heed thee if thou dost lecture. Thou shall have all the gumption, and I'll have my cloak. It may be doubted whether Molly thought this an equal division.
Pryor to lead in prayer. Miss Cornelia had always averred that Mr. Arnold had no gumption. Miss Cornelia was not apt to err on the side of charity in her judgment of Methodist ministers, but in this case she did not greatly overshoot the mark. The Rev. Mr.
"It's no use," he said, regarding Smith with mingled reproach and disgust. "It's no use. I might as well give it best. I can see that it's only waste of time trying to learn you anything. Will I ever be able to knock some gumption into your thick skull? After all the time and trouble and pains I've took with your education, you hain't got any more sense than to go and mug a business like that!
He must just about got it by now maybe a few days ago. He had the clerk mail it for him, and got him to witness it, saying it was his will and what did that old hound have to will except a mine? Next day he wrote another letter somewhere too but I didn't find out who it was to. If I'd had any gumption I'd got ahold of 'em both. The point is I'm convinced it's worth a trip, at least."
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