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Updated: June 10, 2025
The things I had fought for and burned my midnight oil for had failed me. Success I despised it. Recognition it was dead ashes. Society, men and women above the ruck and the muck of the water-front and the forecastle I was appalled by their unlovely mental mediocrity. Love of woman it was like all the rest.
'All for the sake of a jest too. He had been grinning at the freedom of the Saddhu's tongue. 'Thy charms do not work well today, Holy One! The Saddhu followed the policeman, fawning and supplicating. The ruck of passengers, busy, with their babies and their bundles, had not noticed the affair.
He was on the way to perceive that, in certain insignificant things, such as imagination, reading, insight, and general faculty, not to mention conscience, generosity, and goodness of heart, Richard was out of sight before the ruck of gentlemen. He saw already that in some things, thought a good deal of at his college, Richard was more capable than himself.
A few broken down; two or three bolted. Several show in advance of the ruck. CASSOCK, a black colt, seems to be ahead of the rest; those black colts commonly get the start, I have noticed, of the others, in the first quarter. METEOR has pulled up. TWENTY YEARS. Second corner turned. CASSOCK has dropped from the front, and JUDEX, an iron-gray, has the lead. But look! how they have thinned out!
It was all that Claire could do to keep from exclaiming aloud, as it burst upon her astonished senses that this poor, huddled creature was none other than the grande dame of the railway carriage, the haughtily indifferent, cynically amused personage who had seemed so supremely superior to the agitations of the common ruck!
A good description of Baden-Powell is that versatile officer's own sketch of a man with whom he soldiered on one of his campaigns: "He has all the qualifications that go to make an officer above the ruck of them.
Dorthe finished the meal, then put her head on his shoulder and wept bitterly. The priest soothed her, and made her understand that she had acquitted herself with credit; and the sun shone once more. An hour later she took his hand, and led him to the creek in the forest. "C c ruck! C c ruck!" she cried. "C c ruck! C c ruck!" came promptly from the rushes. She looked at him triumphantly.
They've probably got mixed up with some other squads, and gone the Lord knows where. They haven't sense enough to find their regiment in such a ruck as this." Si counted his men over again, with no better result. "I've got an idee," said Shorty, as Si came up to commune again with him as to the misfortune.
Magnificent dray horses, with long hair on the fetlocks above their big heavy hoofs, bridling in conscious pride of silver-mounted harness and curled or braided manes, rose above the ruck as their ancestors, the warhorses, must have risen in medieval battle. The crowd parted before them and closed in behind them.
"From the island?" Kate gasped. "Middling down in the mouth, too, and plagued out of his life between the ruck of you," continued Pete; "but God forgive you all, you can't help it." "Did you say you were going out of the island, Pete?" "Coorse I did; but what's the odds? Africa, Kimberley, the Lord knows where " "Kimberley! Not Kimberley, Pete!"
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