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Updated: May 29, 2025
If there is no more excellent way, of course you must clamber along steep, rugged stairways of bridle-paths, where a single misstep will send you plunging upon a cruel and bloody death; but so far as choice goes, one would much more wisely ride over a civilized road, where he can have his whole mind for the mountain, and not be continually hampered with fears and watchfulness for his own personal safety.
It has never been weakened by any misstep in politics, and so long as that can be said will be exposed to no serious danger. We are far from being at the end of the upper Thames. Oxford, were there no other namable place, is beyond us. But we have explored the denser portion the nucleus of the nebula of historic stars that stretches into the western sky as seen from the metropolis.
I climbed into my basket at the wall and as Uncle Eb carried me over the brook, stopping on a flat rock midway to take a drink, I could see the sky in the water, and it seemed as if a misstep would have tumbled me into the moon. 'Hear the crickets holler, said Uncle Eb, as he followed the bank up into the open pasture. 'What makes 'em holler? I asked.
"This is a sad way to escape justice," observed the notary, in a philosophical tone. The Baron seized this opening with avidity. "He must have crossed the river to escape," said he, "and in his haste he made a misstep and fell." The public prosecutor shook his head with an air of doubt. "That is not probable," said he; "I know the place.
"Well, take whichever you please," said Katherine with dignity, and turned her back on his mirth. Slim saw his dream of fudge fading and realized that he had made a misstep in laughing so loudly. "Don't get mad," he said pleadingly to the back of her head, "I won't tell any of the others what you said. But it was so funny I had to laugh," he said in self-defense.
Now the rotting and worm-eaten timbers of the open trestle-work were under his feet; mechanically, he avoided the numerous gaps, where a misstep meant destruction, and so at last gained the farther bank and sank down panting on the short, crisp sward.
She let herself down cautiously as the footway was crumbling and rotten and slippery with grass. At the lower end of the cleft she peered out. Trees and bushes plenty of them, a thick shield between her and the valleys. She moved slowly downward; a misstep might send her through the boughs to the hillside forty feet below.
"You say Henry brought him to the house while Miss Garnet was with you " "Yes; and, my dear, I wish you might have seen those two Southerners meet! They didn't leave us any feeling of superiority then; at least he didn't. Except that they're both so Southern, they're not alike. She moved right in among us without the smallest misstep. He made a dozen delicious blunders.
The mountain sides were so steep in some places that we were barely able to climb them; many of the wadies, washed by winter torrents, were next to being impassable; and when our way led along the sides of precipitous slopes I shuddered to think of the consequences of a misstep upon the part of my horse.
Besides, having learned that one of these girls was a daughter of a member of the powerful lumber company, he feared to make a misstep. The Rocky River Lumber Company could make or break a sheriff easily enough. The political power of the men owning the corporation in Monadnock County was supreme.
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