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What's the trouble?" "Things aren't the same though, now. There is father, and Robin. Father has taken to Harry strongly. He told me so just now. And for Robin " "Scarcely captivated," said Garrett drily. "Have you seen them together? Hardly domestic " Then he looked at her again and laughed. "And that pleases you, Clare." "Of course," she answered him firmly. "There is no good in hedging.
The only difference is, that the farmer, who pays for the hedging and ditching, is the person to whom the consequent increase of production accrues, while the government, which is at the expense of police officers and courts of justice, does not, as a necessary consequence, get back into its own coffers the increase of the national wealth resulting from the security of property.
He wanted to make a hedging compromise with the Transcontinental brokers just before we swung over the summit with the final five hundred shares we needed." Again Lidgerwood made the sign of assent. "Mr. Brewster is a level-headed Westerner. He doubtless knew, to the dotting of an 'i, the particular brand of trouble you two expansionists were so eager to acquire." "He did.
And in spite of the conscientious scruples on all sides, the hedging and pleading and explaining, all were happier in the end for her decision. She herself was softened by it, and she yielded one point in return. Paul had steadily opposed his mother's plan of housekeeping, alone with one maid and a man who slept at the stables.
"Well," said Hardy, hedging, "I really hadn't considered the matter seriously. Of course, if Judge Ware " "The judge is in San Francisco," put in Swope curtly. "Now, suppose that all of us sheepmen should decide that we wanted some of that good feed up on Bronco Mesa, and, suppose, furthermore, that we should all go up there, as we have a perfect legal right to do, what would you do?"
And as the last pounds came off the Demon's little carcass Mr. Leopold's face resumed a more tranquil expression. It began to be whispered that instead of hedging any part of his money he would stand it all out, and one day a market gardener brought up word that he had seen Mr. Leopold going into Brighton. "Old Watkins isn't good enough for him, that's about it.
If those that consider it so could for a little while enjoy the matrimonial freedom of Mexico, they would soon discover abundant reason for praising the wisdom of our ancestors in hedging about with so many disabilities an institution which is both the safeguard of public morality and of our free government.
He was always rather sad, however, if one suggested a little hedging of this kind when one was reading over the final proofs of the paper. What he liked, and as a journalist was quite right to like, was definiteness. Qualifying words were an abomination to his strong imagination. No man ever loved the dramatic side of life more than he did.
I have grown fond of makeshifts and make-believes and hedging, bluffing, stalling, jumping mental hurdles it's fun it keeps you alive and never weighing more than a hundred and ten pounds." Trudy rose to go. She was a chic little vixen in a fantastic costume of black velvet with a jacket of blush pink.
It is the concentrated essence of intelligent reserve, caution, and obstinacy; it is a conscious intellectual hedging; it is a dogged and determined attempt to build up barriers of defence between the questioner and the questionee: it must be, therefore, the offspring of the catechism and the heresy trial.
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