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Was the world piloted by unbalanced minds? It seemed incredible, impossible it should be so, but two such similar experiences in so short a time apparently supported this gloomy view. Horrible, I thought as I preceded Gootes out of the maniac's office, unbelievably horrible. "Son," advised Gootes, "never argue with the chief. He has the makings of a firstclass apoplexy I hope.
That prohibition cut him, for at that time he had the makings of a voluminous letter-writer. Yet it was only what one might expect. The whole world was unpropitious obdurate indeed.... A splendid isolation
These boys were for the most part young scamps, and some of them had all the qualities of the guttersnipe, but they had the makings of men in them if properly treated. The difficulty was to know how to treat them. No humane C.O. wants to condemn a mischievous brat of a boy to Field Punishment No. 1.
Blackthorne was so much more sympathetic, and understood the difficulties of the day so much better; but I think they unconsciously deceived themselves, for the rector was one of a thousand, and the curate, though he had in him the makings of a fine man, was as yet altogether crude and young.
Cigarette-smoking, for a boy of fourteen, is the short cut to manhood, I suppose." Tom laughed long, heartily, and with intense enjoyment. At last he paused, to remark, soberly: "Answering your first question, Drew, I haven't the 'makings. I never did carry them and never expect to." "What do you smoke then?" queried Alf, in some wonder. "A pipe?" "No; I never had that vice, either.
"Your wha-a-at?" insisted Tom. By this time light had begun to dawn upon the bronzed, athletic young engineer, but he preferred to pretend ignorance a little while longer. "Say, don't you carry the makings?" demanded the boy. "You'll have to be more explicit," Tom retorted. "Just what are you up to? What do you want anyway?"
"Frank," he said, smiling, "it's a pity you are an ass, for you have the makings of a man. I think I must be fey to-day; you cannot irritate me even when you try. Do you know," he continued softly, "I think we are the two most miserable men in England, you and I? we have got on to thirty without wife or child, or so much as a shop to look after poor, pitiful, lost devils, both!
"It strikes me," she looked at him suddenly, "that you're not quite as serious as you make out. You've got all the makings of a very pretty frivoller in you anyway." "I bow to your superior judgment," said Vane gravely. "But I've been commissioned to er go and find myself, so to speak, by one who must be obeyed.
One day early in February he caused Anthony to be summoned to his presence in the orderly tent. "Patch," he said sententiously, "I've had my eye on you for several weeks." Anthony stood erect and motionless. "And I think you've got the makings of a good soldier."
The old man came in cold and weary, and the sight of the half-tended kitchen and neglected fire they paid a neighbor to do the housework, as far as the care of her own seven children would let her suddenly revived in his slippery mind the memory of his niece, who, with all her faults, had had the makings of a housewife, and for whom, in spite of her flouts and jeers, he had always cherished a secret admiration.
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