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A "spotsman" is the agent who arranges for a run of goods, and directs the operation from the shore, without necessarily taking a part in it. Indeed, the longer we weighed the pros and cons the more feasible appeared the simple adventure.
Gawthmey remarked, "If Patrick Henry had been living, I reckon Virginia would have stepped out of the Union side by side with South Carolina." "Well," replied Commodore Maury, "he would have acted as he thought. There would have been no 'pros and cons, and his irresistible eloquence would have carried all before it."
She stood by her dressing-table, staring fixedly at the colored woman, the aimless fingers of her left hand continually pulling out and putting back the silver top of a squat cut-glass bottle. She appeared to be thinking, weighing pros and cons: processes surely unnecessary to a pasteboard actor, sliding smoothly toward a manifest destiny.
For hours and hours I weighed all the pros and cons in favor of or against the probability of my being the father, growing nervous over inexplicable suppositions, only to return incessantly to the same horrible uncertainty, then to the still more atrocious conviction that this man was my son. "I could eat no dinner, and went to my room.
The rest of the mutineers huddled together, evidently irresolute; each man eagerly sought his neighbour's opinion, the pros and cons of Farmer's question were hurriedly discussed, and I saw with inexpressible delight that a good many of the men were more than half disposed to fall in with the master's suggestion.
Did you want to be paid for Lura's body? And he says, 'You know damn' well I didn't want to be paid for Lura's body, Pros Passmore, he says. 'But do you reckon I'm a-goin' to let them mill men strut around with money they got that-a-way in their pockets? No, I'll not. I'll see 'em cold in hell fust, he says them Dawsons is a hard nation o' folks, Johnnie.
"Why, outside the coach will be the cheapest, Newton; and we have no money to spare. You had better take our places to-night." "To what place, father?" inquired Newton. "I'm sure I don't know, Newton," replied Nicholas, as if just awoke. This answer produced a consultation; and after many pros and cons, it was resolved that Nicholas should proceed to Liverpool, and settle in that town.
"I'm willin' to nurse Pros myself, without he'p, night and day. You speak up mighty fine for that thar hospital. What about Lura Dawson? Everybody knows they shipped her body to Cincinnati and sold it. You ort to be ashamed to put your poor old uncle in such a place."
You'll have my sympathy and help in everything that makes you feel bad, whether it's right or wrong." "Oh, Mr. Derry, we are all going away way off to the country to live on a farm!" "Amarilly, you little city brat! You'd be a misfit on a farm. Tell me what has sent the Jenkins family into the open." Faithfully Amarilly enumerated the pros and cons of the agricultural venture.
Pros. gave me a quantity of articles about my beauty cut from out-of-town and foreign papers. I believe I'll subscribe to a clippings bureau. I hadn't thought of that. I stayed and stayed; it was so pleasant in the eyrie; but when at last I rose to go, Kitty sighed: "Why, you've only been here a minute, and in that gorgeous dress, you're like a real Princess, not my chum.
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