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Once we've connected the magneto and fired the blast our whole job will be done." Josh, only half-convinced, drew a revolver and cocked the weapon. "Now, be mighty careful!" snarled Dolph. "Don't get rattled and shoot at any shadows! A shot might spoil our plans tonight, for it would bring men tumbling out this way as soon as they could get out of their bunks and into some clothes.
In her town house or down at Torywood, with her writing-pad on her knee and the telephone at her elbow, or in personal counsel with some trusted colleague or persuasive argument with a halting adherent or half-convinced opponent, she had laboured on behalf of the poor and the ill-equipped, had fought for her idea of the Right, and above all, for the safety and sanity of her Fatherland.
"You know very well that Colbert wouldn't serve his purpose." "By my faith," I cried, "I don't know what his purpose is." "You swear it?" he asked in distrust and amazement. "Most willingly," I answered. "It is simple truth." He gazed at me still as though but half-convinced. "Then what's your purpose in going?" he asked. "I obey my orders.
If you don't believe that now, you will very shortly, after you try it alone." Brookings, caught in his duplicity and half-convinced of the truth of DuQuesne's statements, still temporized. "You're modest, aren't you, Doctor?" he asked, smiling. "Modest? No," said the other calmly. "Modesty never got anybody anything but praise, and I prefer something more substantial.
But go forth against the Christians, and if ye win one battle, it is but to incur a more terrible war; if you lose, it is not honourable capitulation, but certain extermination, to which you rush! Be persuaded, and listen once again to your king." The crowd were moved, were softened, were half-convinced.
"I can't help my appearance; but let me assure you I am willing to play the Bohemian to any extent so long as I can be with you. There isn't a thing in your life I wouldn't be content to share," I ventured to add. She sighed a little petulantly. She was half-convinced, but against her will. "You are very obstinate," she declared; "but, of course, you're rather nice."
I don't s'pose you ever thought of that? This pin's worth a hundred dollars easy. If it had got lost or stole, where'd I been when you come to claim it?" Charity remained silent, puzzled and half-convinced by the argument, and Dr. Merkle promptly followed up her advantage. "I didn't ask you for your brooch, my dear.
"Down by the spring through the blackberry patch." The soldier was half-convinced. He stood for a moment, looking at the floor, then asked her sharply, suddenly: "If your father had gone, then why did you lock that door?" She faltered, but only for an instant. "'Cause I thought you might be niggers."
He shook me fit to beat an' set me on the sidewalk an' scolded me hard, but I didn't care, 'cause I was so glad to keep alive an' not be tooken off to a hospital, like that old man was. Huh! You needn't go thinkin' nor sayin' that was Grandpa Simon Beck, 'cause I know better. I shan't have it that 'twas, so there." Glory's argument but half-convinced herself and only strengthened Nick's opinion.
Already he was more than half-convinced that he should write to Sloan and reject his kindly offer of support. "We've been here but a week, but it doesn't look promising to us." "Well, then you're a pair of fools!" came the disrespectful and irascible retort. "They told me down in Goldpan that some miners had come to open the Cross up again. You're not miners.
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