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Head of God, man! do you dare talk to me in 'ifs'? Philip de Commines, when you were little in your own eyes, when you were the humble fetcher and carrier to that Bully of Burgundy whom I crushed, when you were the very hound and cur of his pleasure, fawning on him for the scraps of life, I took you up, I! I! Now you are Lord of Argenton, now you are Seneschal of Poitou, now you are Prince of Talmont, and I have made you all these, I! I! and you answer me with an 'if'! But the hand which raised you up can drag down, you who answer me with an 'if. The hand which drew from the mud can fling into the ditch, you who answer me with an 'if. And, by God!
But the mingled, mingling threads of life are woven by warp and woof: calms crossed by storms, a storm for every calm. But once gone through, we trace the round again; and are infants, boys, and men, and Ifs eternally. Where lies the final harbor, whence we unmoor no more? In what rapt ether sails the world, of which the weariest will never weary? Where is the foundling's father hidden?
The man is in a political campaign and you know enough of his record to give weight to your suggestions. You say he doesn't want to sell make him want to! My plans are rather too large to admit of 'buts' and 'ifs. Presumably I employ men who can override them." Ruferton continued to stare blankly. "But surely " Hamilton had already turned to Tarring and he wheeled with a snap in his voice.
'If you lived at Undern you could wear them every day. 'If ifs were beans and bacon, there's few'd go clemmed, said Hazel. 'That green un's proper, like when the leaves come new, and little small roses and all. Put it on while I see what Vessons is doing. 'He's grumbling in the kitchen, seemingly, said Hazel. Vessons always grumbled.
"Oh, can't we see it; whatever it is?" begged Nan. "First I'll have to make sure there is a fire," replied Mr. Bobbsey. "I hope there isn't. But, if there should be a small one, and the firemen on the boat are putting it out, and if they let us get near enough to see, and if the smoke isn't too thick " "Oh, Daddy! Not so many 'ifs' please!" laughed Nan.
She blew the trustees off the door-step of Saint Margaret's, homeward, with an insistent buzzing of "ifs" and "buts" in their ears, and the faint woodsy odor of primroses under their noses. To each member of the board entering his own home, unsupported by the presence of his fellow-members and the scientific zeal of the Senior Surgeon, the business of the afternoon began to change its aspect.
Look you," he resumed, with a very slight compression of his lip, and a still slighter movement in his chair, "look you, this is no question of ifs and buts! it is a question of must and shall, a question of existence to you and to me.
"If she hadn't sprung that old oral exam on us " "Oh, if ifs and ands were pots and pans!" Flora, rather freckly, elbowy, and far too tall, was none the less about to be pretty. She was frailly fair, like her mother, and could already throw her blue eyes about their balls, in the Esperanto of coquetry.
"Feller citizens," he cried, "as chairman of the committee of notification, I desire to report that I have 'tended to my duties in so far as I could to date. But there has things happened that I can't figger out, and for which I ain't responsible. There ain't no time now for ifs, buts, or ands. That train is too near.
The letter reads: RIGHT HONORABLE, ETC.: I received your letter wherein you write that our minds are so set upon faction, and idle conceits in dividing the country without your consents, and that we feed you but with ifs and ands, hopes and some few proofes; as if we would keepe the mystery of the businesse to ourselves: and that we must expressly follow your instructions sent by Captain Newport: the charge of whose voyage amounts to neare two thousand pounds, the which if we cannot defray by the ships returne we are likely to remain as banished men.
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