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I can assure you that we trembled in our shoes: our fate hung in the balance. The officer-in-charge of the field, however, was more level-headed and broader-minded, although he could not calm his excited colleague. At last he point blank refused to mete out the desired punishment. He turned to us. "I accept your explanation.
"No, sir, she and George are in Denver." "And who is stopping here with you?" "No one; do you think I need a guardian, or a chaperon?" The old man's eyes twinkled; "You always were an independent sort of a girl, and pretty level-headed, too, I must admit; but, my dear child, is it safe for you to be out here alone among the miners, and this rough class of people?"
I found him a hearty, strong, active-minded man the sort of man whom we in America would call "level-headed" and "a worker."
The place they'll tackle will be right yere, if they tackle anything at all " I will not weary you with the pros and cons. At the time I thought, and I still think, the whole arrangement most ill advised; but against me was the united opinion of nearly the whole camp, including the most level-headed members of my own party.
"What do you wish to say?" "If the boys was to see me speakin' to you, they might git suspicious you understand," he confided, his manner conveying a hint that they shared some common policy. "I don't meddle with politics," said Wetherell, desperately. "Exactly!" answered Bijah, coming even closer. "I knowed you was a level-headed man, moment I set eyes on you.
Lady Dunstable's efforts on his behalf had already done him substantial service; she had introduced him to all kinds of people likely to help him, intellectually and financially; and to help him was to help Doris. Why would she be such a little fool? So unlike her, too! sensible, level-headed creature that she generally was. But he was afraid of losing his own temper, if he argued with her.
"I meet the new arrivals," he said. "If you'll come along with me, Mr. Nelsen..." He was dark, and medium large, and he had a genial way. He looked like a hopper an asteroid-miner the tough, level-headed kind that adjusts to space and keeps his balance. "Name's Ed Huth," he continued, as they walked to the reception dome. "Canadian. Good, international crowd here however long you mean to stay.
It is an outrage to hurt me so. I haven't said anything." But she was incorrigible, and when she had twisted free she began again: "I took it upon myself to speak a few parables to Mr. Crocker the other day. You know, Marian, that he is one of these level-headed old fogies who think women ought to be kept in a menagerie, behind bars, to be inspected on Saturday afternoons.
Winter's level-headed shrewdness and Furneaux's almost uncanny intuition might have saddled Hilton with blood guiltiness, but a wide chasm must be bridged before they could provide the requisite proof of their theory. In fact, thus far they dared not even hint at bringing a charge against him.
To this proposal Miss Jessie, being in the main a very level-headed young lady, in spite of her little superstitions, assented without demur, and the two proceeded to the village. On the way thither and back, Desbra learned all the history of the "Star on the Marsh," as I have endeavored to unfold it in the preceding pages.
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