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"Not Shorty," denied the sheriff, with a decisive shake of his head. "I've used Shorty before. He don't go to sleep on duty, Shorty don't. Here he is now." Entered then Shorty Rumbold, a tall, lean-bodied man with a twinkling eye and a square chin. "Shorty," said Dolan, "Jake says he put you on guard here last night." "Not here," said Shorty, always painfully meticulous as to facts. "Outside."
But Agatha only smiled, for she was thinking: "If I let Ann go as far as the gate, she'll only make it a stepping-stone to something else to-morrow." Taking no interest in public affairs, her inherited craving for command had resorted for expression to a meticulous ordering of household matters.
It is astonishing how you can weed every inch of a garden path and keep it in the most meticulous order, and then one morning find in the very middle of it a lusty, full-grown plant whose roots are positively mortised in granite! All gardeners are familiar with such discoveries. But a similar discovery, though it entails hard labour on him, will not disgust the man whose hobby is his brain.
For, though he had throughout been almost worryingly meticulous in his business formalities and his promptitudes never had any interest or rent been a day late! she admitted to herself now that she had been afraid... that, in fact, she had not utterly trusted him. "And what's got to be done with this?" she asked simply, fingering the receipt.
But though thought is active and exuberant in these poems they are not altogether an intellectual outburst excited by the successful advance into India. The calm of settlement as well as the fire of conquest have left their mark on them and during the period of composition religion grew more boldly speculative but also more sedentary, formal and meticulous.
I'll wager, right now, it was Dick's suggestion, to Lute, and for Lute to carry out, for Terrence to get O'Hay into the stag room. Now, 'fess up, Lute." "Well, I will say," Lute answered with meticulous circumspection, "that the idea was not entirely original with me." At this point, Ernestine joined them and appropriated Graham with: "We're all waiting for you.
I had therefore almost abandoned the impersonation of "Giuseppe Doria" when Robert arrived at Princetown and we were reconciled. But then Jenny, to whom all credit belongs at this stage my devoted, glorious Jenny! began to see a glimpse of the dazzling opportunity now presented. Every detail was worked out with meticulous precaution; not a hazard was ignored, not a risk unguarded.
Gladstone aimed at alleviating the distress due to the decadence of a national industry by defining with meticulous nicety the respective shares which the two parties engaged in agriculture landlord and tenant were to derive from its dwindling returns.
His love of reading was a godsend to him when the waters were more than usually troubled and his brain was in a whirl. In the actual work of composition he was elaborately meticulous not often to the extent of changing an original plan, but in minor details; he never ceased working on a score until the music was out of his hands, or entirely put aside.
This was solidly made and edged with rubber, and he felt sure that it would be almost completely sound-proof. It was, moreover, furnished with a well-oiled lock. "Pretty complete arrangement," Willis thought as he turned back to the outer office. Here he conducted another of his meticulous examinations, but unfortunately with a negative result.
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