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When Stoddard's presence and help had been proffered to herself, Johnnie had not failed to find a gracious way of declining or avoiding; but you cannot reprove a sick man a dying man. She could not for the life of her find a way to insist that Uncle Pros make less demand on the young mill owner's time.
It has given me a breathing spell . that and the hundred for signing a patent medicine testimonial; but I had to sacrifice more than half I got from both sources to pacify greedy creditors. And a month between remittances, and so little when they come! Father can't refuse to mortgage; why doesn't he write to me? The day I took the article to Cadge I had a long talk with her and with Pros.
Though he could not take the oaths, he regularly communicated at the parish church. Controversy he abhorred; it seemed to him, he said to Kettlewell, as if the one thing needful were scarcely heard, amidst the din and clashings of pros and cons, and he wished the men of war, the disputants, would follow his friend's example, and beat their swords and spears into ploughshares and pruning hooks.
'To have all the soft secrets of your life revealed to the coarse wonder of the gloating multitude; to find yourself the object of the world's curiosity, still worse, their pity, their sympathy; to have the sacred conduct of your hearth canvassed in every circle, and be the grand subject of the pros and cons of every paltry journal, ah, Venetia! you know not, you cannot understand, it is impossible you can comprehend, the bitterness of such a lot.
He was weighing the pros and cons dispassionately, when the English chaplain approached. "Do you play bridge, Mr. Spencer?" he asked. "I know the leads, and call 'without' on the least provocation," was the reply. "Well, now, that is the last place in which I should expect to find my bridge portrait."
He would refer it to Katuti, who always knew how to say a decisive word when he, entangled in a hundred pros and cons, feared to venture on a final step. By her advice he had sought to wed the princess, as a fresh mark of honor as an addition to his revenues as a pledge for his personal safety. His heart had never been more or less attached to her than to any other beautiful woman in Egypt.
Now it happened then, as indeed it had often done before, that my uncle Toby's fancy, during the time of my father's explanation of Prignitz to him having nothing to stay it there, had taken a short flight to the bowling-green; his body might as well have taken a turn there too so that with all the semblance of a deep school-man intent upon the medius terminus my uncle Toby was in fact as ignorant of the whole lecture, and all its pros and cons, as if my father had been translating Hafen Slawkenbergius from the Latin tongue into the Cherokee.
Uncle Pros tried to answer with gesticulation or a shouted word, and sometimes those he replied to turned and ran, calling to others. But it was black Jim, riding on Roan Sultan, out with the searchers, who saw and understood. He looked down across the great two-mile turn beyond the Gap, and sighted the climbing car.
He tried to be critical, and constantly discusses the pros and cons for admitting the received location of prominent points; but in this he is not very successful, and seems to decline at length into helpless acquiescence. He rejects the innovations and doubts of such men as Robinson and Baker, and acknowledges that the sacred sites have for the most part been identified.
He would refer it to Katuti, who always knew how to say a decisive word when he, entangled in a hundred pros and cons, feared to venture on a final step. By her advice he had sought to wed the princess, as a fresh mark of honor as an addition to his revenues as a pledge for his personal safety. His heart had never been more or less attached to her than to any other beautiful woman in Egypt.
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