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Incidentally, the sled went faster, and thus, by cunning indirection, did man increase his mastery over the beasts. Mit-sah resembled his father, much of whose grey wisdom he possessed. In the past he had observed Lip-lip's persecution of White Fang; but at that time Lip-lip was another man's dog, and Mit-sah had never dared more than to shy an occasional stone at him.
"I think I may say they would take it not unkindly," said Tully. " of holding on to them," concluded Bean. "Your letting them go for a fair price might not inconceivably react to your advantage," suggested the luminous Tully. "It is not impossible that I shall want them myself," responded Bean, unconsciously adopting the Tully indirection. "The office is not unwilling " began Tully.
But she cannot have been wholly uninfluenced being a woman of an alert mind by the controversy which, in the seventies and eighties, was raging about a pretty crass and literal materialism, and her writings probably reflect with a good deal of indirection that controversy. Here is a possible key to a good many things which are otherwise puzzling enough.
Vostrand, with a burst of frankness, "he thinks you don't like him." "He's wrong," said Westover. "But I might dislike him very much." "I see what you mean," said Mrs. Vostrand, "and I'm glad you've been so frank with me. I've been so interested in Mr. Durgin, so interested! Isn't he very young?" The question seemed a bit of indirection to Westover. But he answered directly enough.
She was without practice in indirection, but she successfully hid her jealousy and her fears, though his manner was making their taunts and threats desperately real. He seemed depressed and gloomy; he would not look at her; he shook hands with her almost coldly, though they had not seen each other for weeks, had not talked together for months.
"Concealing his impatience at this last suggestion, the prince, with wily indirection, said: "'It is too late to-day, Lal Lu. Thy father will be here on the morrow; rest thyself until then, and fearful lest the maiden would penetrate his purpose, he added: "'Lal Lu, I am compelled to leave thee for a space; I will send thy woman to thee.
When he noted that the judge's shoes were extremely dusty, this suspicion shaped itself definitely. He was convinced that on the strength of his prospective fee the judge had gone to Belle Plain, for what purpose Mr. Mahaffy knew only too well. "It took you some time to get up that abstract, didn't it, Price?" he presently said, with artful indirection.
The error must not be inculcated here that the parson had no passions: he had three-ruling ones: a passion for music, a passion for metaphysics, and a passion for satirizing the other sex. Dropping in one afternoon and glancing with delicate indirection at John's short shelf of books, he inquired whether he had finished with his Paley.
Man might propose but physical geography would dispose. The regrettable aspect of Douglas's course is his attempt to nullify the Missouri Compromise by subtle indirection. This was the device of a shifty politician, trying to avert suspicion and public alarm by clever ambiguities.
You say that that method has failed. What do you think of trying indirect action in the shape of Perkins, who is indirection personified?" "Bring him in. He may be able to figure out something." Perkins was called in, and the main phases of the situation laid before him. The three men sat in silence for many minutes while the crafty strategist studied the problem. Finally he spoke.
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