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We were three thousand miles from home, and the possessors of ten sovereigns apiece. I reached out my hand with a pale smile: "Old fellow," I said, "let us comfort ourselves by the assurance that we have deserved success. The time has come to say good by." "As you will," said Hipp: "it is all the fault of this pig-headed nation.
They've been so successful in Pennsylvania that they are attempting to repeat that success all over the Country. They have grown pig-headed. I feel sorry for the poor devils, who never realize when they are well off." "I feel sorry, too, Mr. Jordan," said Bennington. He played a tattoo on his strong white teeth with his pencil. "Mr. Warrington seems to know you well."
And look what you're makin' at it in money, to say nothin' of its shovin' you into Congress, and keepin' the newspapers busy printin' stuff about you. . . . Well, well," with a sigh of resignation, "I don't understand it yet, but know it's so, and if I'd had my pig-headed way 'twouldn't have been so.
"My information," Andrew answered, "comes from the Duke of Westerham. I have every reason to believe that the case against him has been understated." "The Duke," Cecil declared, "is a pig-headed old fool!" Andrew shrugged his shoulders. "I have always found him a man of remarkably keen judgment," he said. "What are you going to do about Jeanne?" the Princess asked, changing the subject abruptly.
There is apparent at once, however, a difference between the respective dispositions of the two peoples: the Koords are inclined to be pig-headed and obtrusive, as though possessed of their full share of the spirit of self-assertion; the Sup Ogwanis people, on the contrary, act like beings utterly destitute of anything of the kind, cowering beneath one's look and shunning immediate contact as though habitually overcome with a sense of their own inferiority.
Keen, still pacing the room, dictated in a quiet voice as he walked to and fro: "Mrs. Regan's Danny is doing six months in Butte, Montana. Break it to her as mercifully as possible. He is a bad one. We make no charge. The truck driver, Becker, can find his wife at her mother's house, Leonia, New Jersey. Tell him to be less pig-headed or she'll go for good some day. Ten dollars. Mrs.
If only the rascal hadn't had a wife and children, and if only his wife but, unfortunately for Mr. Waddington, his wife was Susan Trinder, Mrs. Trinder's husband's niece, and Susan Trinder had been Horace's nurse; and though they all considered that she had done for herself when she married that pig-headed Ballinger, Fanny and Horace still called her Susan-Nanna.
Clearly not a family of any very great pretensions a race for the most part of frugal, upright country gentlemen to be found, with scarcely an exception, on the side of political liberty, and of a Whiggish religion; men who had given their sons to die at Quebec, and Plassy, and Trafalgar, for the making of England's Empire; who would have voted with Fox, but that the terrors of Burke, and a dogged sense that the country must be carried on, drove them into supporting Pitt; who, at home, dispensed alternate justice and doles, and when their wives died put up inscriptions to them intended to bear witness at once to the Latinity of a Boyce's education, and the pious strength of his legitimate affections a tedious race perhaps and pig-headed, tyrannical too here and there, but on the whole honourable English stuff the stuff which has made, and still in new forms sustains, the fabric of a great state.
"Under other circumstances we might have been friends." "There is only one solace," he said. "When we do not have friends, we can not lose them." He opened the door to let me pass out, and as our eyes met, all the coldness died out of his. He held out his hand, but I was hurt. I refused to see it. "Kit!" he said unsteadily. "I I'm an obstinate, pig-headed brute. I am sorry.
"A flock of geese once saved an empire," he said, "a child's little finger in the crack of the dam kept a whole city from destruction. One man may yet save this pig-headed country of ours from utter disaster. It may be you it may be I!" "You are also an Englishman!" I exclaimed. "Perhaps!" he answered shortly. "Never mind what I am. Think! Think hard! By to-morrow you must decide!
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