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"But I'm damned if I understand this high-handed attitude of yours!" he concluded heatedly. "Don't you?" Kirkwood's humor became less apparent, the smile sobering. "You will," he told the man, adding abruptly: "Calendar, where's your daughter?" The restless eyes sought the companionway. "Dorothy," the man lied spontaneously, without a tremor, "is with friends in England. Why?
Judge Advocate, that your case is incomplete. The court has ruled that hearsay evidence will not be accepted. Belden, the scout, has not yet testified before this court as to " "I forget nothing," interrupted the judge advocate, heatedly. "The first charge can wait. The second charge of wilful murder has been proved against the accused." "I deny it," retorted Dwight.
It isn't your wife or my wife. It's the whole sex. They chatter and prattle and make silly jokes about things they're absolutely incapable of understanding." "My dear Hawkins," I said soothingly, "you wrong the fair sex." "Oh, I wrong 'em, eh? Well, what woman knows the first thing about explosives?" demanded Hawkins heatedly.
In my heart of hearts I know he didn't do it, and though on the face of it there's no doubt, I'm going to try and clear his name. I am sailing for South Africa on Friday." "Sailing for South Africa!" I exclaimed. "What about your work?" "My work can go hang!" replied Jack heatedly. "I want to wipe away the stain from my father's name, and I mean to do it somehow.
But can't you feel that he's left us in the lurch, that we're shut up here, while he's giving us the laugh and getting away?" "Jim, listen to me. During this past week I've seen more of Keenan than you have." "Yes, a vast sight more!" he interjected, heatedly. "And I feel sure," she went on evenly, "that he is more frightened and worried than he pretends to be.
And, maybe, when we get to the end something will have been achieved in His scheme of things that our silly brains can't grasp. Yes, there is a God, Jim, and you're just hitting the trail He's set for you." But Jim was in no reasonable mood. "Then where's the cursed justice " he began heatedly. But broke off as the other shrugged his great shoulders. He waited for Peter to speak.
"Luck!" the senior officer retorted, heatedly. "You call it luck! It was luck that we did not lose you and that you got your crippled plane back across the line. But can you be sure that those Spads came upon the scene, at the right moment, by chance?" Count von Herzmann shook his head. "No, Herr Hauptmann, in this war we can be sure of only one thing death, if the war continues.
But this other work is a home; she goes from one home to another and undertakes all the dirty work." "Father's not in a position to keep me at home." "I know that very well, but all the same I can't bear it. Besides, you could surely get some other kind of work." "Yes, but I don't want to! I claim the right to dispose of myself!" she replied heatedly.
"Besides, though your animal is a good one, he is too short and straight in the pasterns," said I, uttering sheer, rank, wild heresy. After that we talked; at first heatedly, then argumentatively, then with entire, enthusiastic agreement. I saw to that. Allowing yourself to be converted from an absurd opinion is always a sure way to favour.
I told him as heatedly as one can speak lying back in a canoe to a man beyond a little river that he, being older than I, should know that everything in a full man tended towards some place where expression is permanent and secure; and then I told him that since I had only seen such a place far off as it were, but never lived in, I had set forth to see if I might think out the way to it, "and I hope," I said, "to finish the problem not so far down as Bablock Hythe, but nearer by, towards New Bridge or even higher, by Kelmscott,"
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