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"You always were a THOROUGH old thing!" he said. "No half-measures would do. I suppose I must agree." Jane reached out for his hand. "Ah, Boy," she said, "now you will help me. But I never before knew you so nearly selfish." "The 'other man' is always a problem," said the doctor.
Thus the campaign did not produce results proportionate to the preparations which had been made; it humbled the Iroquois, but by this very fact it excited their rage and desire for vengeance; so true is it that half-measures are more dangerous than complete inaction. They were, besides, cleverly goaded on by Governor Dongan.
But most carefully should we avoid, as of all courses the most pernicious, such half-measures as were followed by the Samnites when they had the Romans shut up in the Caudine Forks, and would not listen to the counsels of the old man who urged them either to send their captives away with every honourable attention, or else put them all to death; but adopted a middle course, and after disarming them and making them pass under the yoke, suffered them to depart at once disgraced and angered.
"What change?" the woman parried. "I don't know " "Oh yes, you do! For the first time in years you have treated me as a husband should be treated; half-measures will no longer satisfy me. We have arrived at the show-up. Are you a miserable Delilah or " "Please don't ask me to go out with you, Henri," the woman pleaded, in genuine distress, now that she saw he was in earnest.
And he had struck a harsh blow in turn; the flat of his mind was still stinging, as if half the shock of the blow had remained behind. "But it was no time for half-measures," he muttered to himself. "Not again; not twice!" he repeated. Hortense remained for several days in a condition of sullen anger she was a cloud lit up by occasional unaccountable flashes of temper.
If Ellen had consented to come and live with her grandmother it must surely be because she had recognised the impossibility of giving him up. This was her answer to his final appeal of the other day: if she would not take the extreme step he had urged, she had at last yielded to half-measures.
"Food for fishes?" came the grim query, in reply. "Not yet; not this time, anyway. No, we'll just put him ashore at Cuba and see if he knows how to mind his own business." The motor boat engineer grumbled under his breath. He was evidently not a man for half-measures. The blood of the old buccaneers ran in his veins. It was evident, though, that Cecil was master.
But the conviction that something must be done and must be done immediately, that this something must be radical and final, and that the time for half-measures and procrastination is past this conviction these addresses would fain produce, if they could, in you personally, as they still cherish the utmost confidence in your integrity.
"I stopped; or, rather, I was nailed to the spot by that voice which for a long time had held such entire control over my heart. She came up to me, looking even more excited than I was. Her lips trembled, and her eyes wandered to and fro. "'Well, she said, 'it is no longer a fancy: this time you marry Miss Chandore. "The time for half-measures had passed. "'Yes, I replied.
"While I have strength to work for her she shall suffer none of them," I said. But neither, apparently, heeded me, and, rapidly growing fiercer, the old man added: "There will be no half-measures you must make the choice. As that man's wife you will never enter the doors of the Manor. Remember who you are, girl, and shake off this foolishness." His mood changed in an instant.
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