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You care for her, I know, and losing her will break your heart. I tried to tell you long ago, but Little Lees made me promise not to say a word that night at Burlingame when you had gone away and I thought maybe I had a half-chance with her. Tell me you'll make her happy, Gail." "Oh, Beverly, I'll do my best," I murmured, softly. "Come closer, Gail. Look at those colors there.
And as to four, suppose in a sudden alarm, say, those cut off by land could run another half-chance to reach the place by river. By the way, the nunnery has a bell to ring." Gilbert Forrester shoved the map along to his neighbor, and cleared his throat. "Gentlemen," he declared slowly, "you once did me the honor to say that in in a certain event, you would consider me as acting head.
For instance, he wanted the war parties called in before he started unarmed upon his mission of peace. He wanted the best chance of success not a half-chance. And he was very willing to have help; and so, high rewards were advertised, for any who would go unarmed with him. This opportunity was declined.
The discredited man kept himself alive by scraps of anonymous journalism, until a half-chance suggestion of fortune bore him away to the United States as a member of a theatrical company of no great merit, which clung together through desperately failing fortunes for a month or two, and then, dissolving, left him stranded. He floated, a pseudonymous unit, acting, writing, lecturing.
I knew that in the event of war Dewey could be slipped like a wolf-hound from a leash; I was sure that if he were given half a chance he would strike instantly and with telling effect; and I made up my mind that all I could do to give him that half-chance should be done.
The event proved that Robinson's judgment was soundest; but about once a month for four years the event came near to giving the verdict to the deriders, for about that frequently Robinson barely escaped falling under the native spears. But history shows that he had a thinking head, and was not a mere wild sentimentalist. He wanted the best chance of success not a half-chance.
So I want you to give those villains that half-chance to rob you, but not the other half, or they may oh, it's no play! You must manage to have this despatch taken from you totally against your will! Then you must reach Clifton shortly after daylight. Ferry's scouts are there, and you'll say to Lieutenant Ferry the single word, Rodney. Understand?" He pretended to be reconsidering.
Do you want me to? If the whole thing went to the devil it would be a small price to pay for getting even another half-chance to make good with you. May I, Marjorie? Say I may!" He was bending forward, alert and passionate, as if it were a chance to own the world that he was begging for. She told him so. "It is my world. I mean it, Marjorie.
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