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Unluckily for poor Carrie, Mrs. Wedmore was in a state of irritation, in which she was even readier than usual to agree with her husband. The arrival of Dudley, with a terrible charge hanging over his head, in such circumstances as to stir up Doreen's feelings for him to the utmost, was bad enough.
Upon my conscience, though I have no wife, if you had treated her so, I would have cut your throat." Jones was so confounded with his fears for his lady's reputation, that he knew neither what to say or do; but the invention of women is, as hath been observed, much readier than that of men.
Thus a long, bloody and costly War of Sections a fraternal war if ever there was one brought on by alternating intolerance, the politicians of both sides gambling upon the credulity and ignorance of the people. Hindsight is readier, certainly surer, than foresight. It comes easier and shows clearer.
And Peter Piper, pioneer scout of Piper's Crossroads was a better scout than he knew.... There was one place where the searchlight message was translated with a readier skill than at Piper's Crossroads, and where it created quite as great consternation. That was at the camp on Frying-pan Island.
What readier or more probably effectual way than, while teaching it to carry without dropping, to teach it also to keep quiet while carrying? The one thing would practically cover the other. "I thought at once, of course, of a jackdaw or a magpie these birds' thievish reputations made the guess natural. But the marks on the match were much too wide apart to have been made by the beak of either.
Who can tell what it may prove when it has been ploughed with the plough of suffering, when the rains of sorrow, the frosts of pain, and the winds of poverty have moistened and swelled and dried its fallow clods? Mercy had not such a sweet temper as her sister, but she was not so selfish. She was readier to take offence, perhaps just because she was less self-satisfied.
'I want to know, father, whether, when men differ, a man is bound to take a side. 'Nay, Richard, but a man is bound NOT to take a side save upon reasons well considered and found good. 'It may be, father, if you had seen fit to send me to Oxford, I should have been better able to judge now. 'I had my reasons, son Richard. Readier, perhaps, you might have been, but fitter no.
Among the many who had lost chums and friends was Ned Johnson, of Company K. Ned was a young Englishman, with much of the suggestiveness of the bull-dog common to the lower class of that nation. His fist was readier than his tongue. His chum, Walter Savage was of the same surly type. The two had come from England twelve years before, and had been together ever since.
Even the tedious old man, Tatiana Vassilievna's husband, was friendly to him, and both the silent girls were soon quite at home with him. I noticed that Varvara was readier to sit by him and listen than her sister, though she certainly did not understand much; literature was not in her line.
Yet he endeavoured to surround them with a wall and trench, that he might be able to check their most sudden sally, to which he imagined that they must have recourse. Hereupon, urged by want of fodder, that they might be the readier for a march, they killed all their baggage cattle. LXXXII. In this work, and the deliberations on it, two days were spent.
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