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So I went homeward cursing my fortune, and the woman who had clasped me from behind just as I was about to send the death-thrust home, and also my lack of skill which had delayed that thrust so long. Twice I might have made it and twice I had waited, being overcautious and over-anxious to be sure, and now I had lost my chance, and might bide many a day before it came again.
Don't suppose you would have done so only we're taking a corpse as far as Lydmouth, which is our first stop." "Really?" Skidmore said carelessly. "Ill wind that blows nobody good, Catesby. I may be overcautious, but I much prefer a carriage to myself. And my people prefer it, too. That's why we always give the railway authorities a few days' notice. One can't be too careful, Catesby."
It is obvious, however, that Burke's policy had grievous faults. His reverence for the past, and his respect for existing institutions as the heritage of the past, made him timid and overcautious in dealing with abuses. Although he stood with Pitt in defending the American colonies, he had no confidence in the thoroughgoing reforms which the great Commoner proposed.
"You come from an odd direction if that be true," was the reply, and at the same instant a vigorous hand seized me by the shirt-collar. Then it was that Sergeant Corney stepped forward, as he asked: "Are you of General Herkimer's force?" "How much will it benefit you to get such information?" "Nay, nay, friend; there is no need of bein' overcautious with us.
But I mean to be in on that, too." Hildreth wagged his head dubiously. "I may be overcautious; and I don't want to seem to scare you out, Kent. You ought to know your man better than I do better than any of us; but if I had your job, I believe I should want to travel with a body-guard. I do, for a fact." David Kent's laugh came easily. Fear, the fear of man, was not among his weaknesses.
Nevertheless, one cannot well be overcautious when one is a hunted man." "Blensop ... be good enough to see this man out through the garden." "Yes, sir." "Again, monsieur, my thanks." "Good-night," said Stanistreet curtly. Blensop passed Lanyard's chair, unlatched and opened the window and stood aside.
Then he began to wonder if they were not overcautious about the nearness of the enemy. He had been in the army just long enough to have contempt for the stories that were always current with a certain class about the proximity and strength of the enemy. Shorty was not of that kind; but, then, Shorty was as liable to be imposed upon as anybody.
Let us not be overcautious. It would be cowardly to leave a baby in the wild wood where prowl the hungry wolves!" answered an elderly man. The tall man now came out of the chieftain's teepee. With a word he sent them to their dwellings half running with joy. "A feast! a dance for the naming of the chieftain's grandchild!" cried he in a loud voice to the village people.
Within a few minutes the neighborhood of Grosvenor Square was exchanged for the noisier and more crowded one of Piccadilly, but either the cabman was overcautious or the horse was below the average, for they made but slow progress through the more crowded streets. To the two sitting in silence the pace was wellnigh unbearable. With every added movement the tension grew.
On July 20, the Union army had been beaten at Bull Run and driven back, a rabble of fugitives, into the panic stricken capital. Then came weeks and months of delay and uncertainty while the overcautious McClellan sought to build up a new military machine. The entire North was overspread with gloom; the Confederates were jubilant and full of self-confidence.
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