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The whole thing was so confused, just as he himself had admitted, more than once. It might all be put on the ground of a mistake, a little misunderstanding, recently discovered. You could tell, and not go into all the mixed-up details.
"There come the cavalry." The three conspirators jumped to their feet and bolted for the window; even the sheriff turned to look. As he did so I gave him a shove toward the three which sent them all sprawling on the floor in a pretty badly mixed-up condition. I made a dash for the door, and as I went through it I grabbed the key and locked them in.
Look at the difference between a thoroughbred and a cold-blooded horse! There you are! That's true. It's the fashion now to discount instinct, I know; well but you can't get away from it. I've thought about the thing a lot. Men are brave against their better reason, against their conscience. It's a mixed-up thing. It's confusing and and sort of damnable," he concluded lamely.
"Not forty per cent the bad years," replied the Virginian. "The frawgs had enemies, same as cattle. I remember when a pelican got in the spring pasture, and the herd broke through the fence " "Fence?" said a passenger. "Ditch, seh, and wire net. Every pasture was a square swamp with a ditch around, and a wire net. Yu've heard the mournful, mixed-up sound a big bunch of cattle will make?
Dead silence on the lady's part; this 'mixed-up' style of remark being, as she found, extremely hard to answer. 'What shall I do? he said gently. 'About what, sir? 'Making myself secure? 'I do not know, said Wych Hazel. 'No suggestion occurs to me that would be worth your consideration. 'I spoke to you once, some time ago, on the abstract grounds of the question we have under discussion.
He held Paul close to him. Paul had a great many mixed-up thoughts. But there was one that was clear. He said to himself solemnly, "I guess I know who I want to be like when I grow up." By and by, he stirred and said, "Well, I guess I better start to pack up. Don't you bother. I'll pack the things away. Mother showed me how to clean the frying-pan with sand and moss." July 10.
'What the devil did you do it for? said De Blacquaire. 'Well, said the wounded Sergeant, 'it's pretty hard to say. I suppose it's a mixed-up kind of thing altogether. I saw you drop, and you promised to break me in the morning, and if I'd let your chance go by, d'ye see 'See! 'said De Blacquaire, holding on to the hand in the darkness. 'You're not half a bad fellow, Jervase.
In fact, these women, rushing at once into his thoughts, cramped each other and lessened, as reduced to a uniform level of love that equalised them all. So taking handfuls of the mixed-up letters, he amused himself for some moments with letting them fall in cascades from his right into his left hand.
He decided not to settle the question at this moment. "This seems to be rather a mixed-up affair, Senhor Alcatrante," he said. "There is much more in it than appears. Call on me to-morrow morning, and you shall have my decision." Alcatrante and Poritol looked at each other. The minister spoke: "Will you engage not to give the bill to anyone else in the interval?" "I will promise that," said Orme.
The crazy divorces only, or the half-dozen successive and still crazier engagements only gathered fruit, bitter fruit, of her own incredibly allowed, her own insanely fostered frivolity either of these two groups of skeletons at the banquet might singly be dealt with; but the combination, the fact of each party's having been so mixed-up with whatever was least presentable for the other, the fact of their having so shockingly amused themselves together, made all present steering resemble the classic middle course between Scylla and Charybdis.
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