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Wheat was down to sixty-six. At length Emma Lewiston spoke. "Well," she hazarded, looking vaguely out across the ranch toward the horizon, leagues distant; "well, Sam, there's always that offer of brother Joe's. We can quit and go to Chicago if the worst comes." "And give up!" exclaimed Lewiston, running the lines through the torets. "Leave the ranch! Give up! After all these years!"
Paz secretly evacuated Córdova, and, moving westward, hazarded a feat which is alone sufficient to establish his character as the best tactician of the New World, San Martin alone, perhaps, excepted.
"Perhaps not; but then, you see, we don't know," smiled Miss Maggie, once again her cheery self. Mr. Smith said nothing. Mr. Smith had turned his back just then. When Mrs. Jane was gone, Mr. Smith faced Miss Maggie with a quizzical smile. "Well?" he hazarded. "You mean " "I'm awaiting orders as your new boarder." "Oh! They'll not be alarming, I assure you. Do you really want to come?"
John Short spoke hastily in an endeavor to promote an understanding, and blundered worse than his client: his suggestion was that they might each take up one of the bairns; but the expression of Bessie's eyes was a reminder that she might not please to trudge at their bridle, though the little and weak ones were to be carried. "You are considering who is to take you up?" hazarded Mr. Fairfax.
No harm must come to Kate through him. I can't see where it can come, except that he is mad about her, and she is mad about some one else." "Fyles?" Bill hazarded. Helen looked around at him in amused admiration. She nodded. "You're getting too clever for me. You will be thinking for us both soon." Bill denied the accusation enthusiastically. "Never," he exclaimed.
It was only a few lines, requesting him to call during the morning, if convenient, on Wesley Travis, the candidate for governor and the treasurer of his campaign committee, Dean Bennett. It had evidently been written in great haste in longhand the night before. "Professional," I hazarded. "There must be some scandal in the campaign for which they require your services."
He seemed to have grown much brighter and gayer of mood in this past twelvemonth. Apparently he was somewhat stouter, and certainly there was a mellowed softening of his sharp glance and shrewd smile. It was evident that his friend's mood somewhat nonplussed him, but his good-humour was unflagging. "It's the way we're taught at school," he hazarded, genially.
It falls into the Murray, almost opposite to the elevations I have been describing, and, if a judgment can be hazarded from its appearance at its embouchure, it must, in its higher branches, be a stream of considerable magnitude. Under this impression, I have called it the Lindesay, as a tribute of respect to my commanding officer, Colonel Patrick Lindesay of the 39th regt.
'The second daughter, perhaps? I hazarded. 'No, said Traddles. 'Sarah's the second. Sarah has something the matter with her spine, poor girl. The malady will wear out by and by, the doctors say, but in the meantime she has to lie down for a twelvemonth. Sophy nurses her. Sophy's the fourth. 'Is the mother living? I inquired. 'Oh yes, said Traddles, 'she is alive.
The taste of the time, however, was not prepared for any great variations in the music of the couplet. The regular foot-fall, established so long, had yet been but little disturbed; and the only license of this kind hazarded through the poem "All perishable" was objected to by some of the author's critical friends, who suggested, that it would be better thus: "All doom'd to perish."
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