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And he now heard some of the club gossip, and all about Dangerfield's proposal for Gertrude Chattesworth, and how the old people were favourable, and the young lady averse and how Dangerfield was content to leave the question in abeyance, and did not seem to care a jackstraw what the townspeople said or thought and then he came to the Walsinghams, and Devereux for the first time really listened.
I thought I noticed a vague complaint in his voice; and he evidently was afraid there might have seemed something of the kind, for he added immediately "I don't care for children one jackstraw, you know, myself; can't understand how any one can, for my part." If ever a man went out of his way to tell a lie, I said to myself, Mr. Oke of Okehurst was doing so at the present moment.
Each jackstraw had one of its ends fashioned in the shape of some sort of implement, a rake, hoe, spade, fork, or mallet. All the pieces were intertwined by the shaking process, and they lay as they fell, in a hopeless tangle.
For the same reasons which I have suggested before, self-interest, behind which lay her democratic kinship with our ideals, ranged her with us. To place my third jackstraw, which follows twenty years after the second, uninterruptedly in this group, I pass over for the moment our War of 1812. To that I will return after I have dealt with the third jackstraw, namely, the Monroe Doctrine.
The formal transfer was made on December 17 of that same year, 1803. There is my second jackstraw. Thus, twenty years after the first time in 1783, Great Britain stood between us and the designs of another nation. To that other nation her fleet was the deciding obstacle. England did not love us so much, but she loved France so much less.
And, one by one, all seven of the bombs he hurled far out and away, to right, to left, straight ahead, slinging them in vast parabolas from the height. And as they struck one by one, night blazed like noonday; and even to the Palisades the crashing echoes roared. The forest, swept as by a giant broom, became a jackstraw tangle of destruction. Thus it perished.
"You two run the business to suit yourselves," he said; "I wash my hands of it." He began another jackstraw without glancing up. "That's good," said the biggest; "that counts you out." He tilted his chair around until he faced the eldest. "I'm no dog in the manger," he continued; "I didn't have a chance to learn more than the law allows, or to go to a city school. But I wanted to, bad enough.
It remained a vague, permeating, continuous feeling the feeling that he loved her, and she did not care a jackstraw about him, and that everything with which she came into contact was receiving some of that notice which was refused to him every person, or thing, or tree, or stone: it was the recognition of that strange far-off look in Mrs. Oke's eyes, of that strange absent smile on Mrs.
Every sort and shape of intrigue is in the general heap and tangle, and the jealous nations sit round, each trying to lift out its own jackstraw. Luckily for us, we have not often been involved in these games of jackstraw hitherto; unluckily for us, we must be henceforth involved. If we kept out, our luck would be still worse.
"To make sure that you do let him go alive." He shrugged his shoulders. "All right. I told you I was going to play fair. I haven't many good points, but that is one of them. I don't give my word and then break it." "Still, I'll go." He laughed angrily. "That's your privilege." She turned on him passionately. "You've got no right to resent it, though I don't care a jackstraw whether you do or not.
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