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The Unionist Party has to my mind escaped another danger which was quite as great as that of allowing the Tariff question to be pushed on one side, and that was the danger of being frightened by the scare, which the noisy spreading of certain subversive doctrines has lately caused, into a purely negative and defensive attitude; of ceasing to be, as it has been, a popular and progressive party, and becoming merely the embodiment of upper and middle class prejudices and alarms.
I shall have to come and sleep with you to frighten away the spooks." "I don't think I shall ever dare to go to bed at all after that," said Nick. She laughed at him lazily. "Get Max to sit up with you and hold your hand! The very sight of him would scare away all bogies." "The sign of a wholesome mind," said Max. She turned towards him. "Not at all!
If you don't like it, go in the house where your hyper-sensitive tastes won't be offended." "Thank you," she responded cuttingly and swung about, angry and hurt only to have a fresh scare from the drunken cook, who came reeling forward. "I'm gonna quit," he loudly declared. "I ain't goin' to stick 'round here no more. The job's no good. I want m' time. Yuh hear me, Benton. I'm through.
"But speak more simply, dear little father," broke in Platonída Ivánovna; "don't scare me with Latin; thou art not in an apothecary's shop!" "His heart is out of order," explained the doctor; "well, and he has fever also," ... and he repeated his advice with regard to repose and moderation.
"Boss Reade, he done gone in," muttered the prowler. "Boss Hazelton, Ah reckon he's mah poultry!" Harry, keeping his lone vigil away out on the narrow retaining wall, was growing sleepy. He had nearly forgotten his scare. Indeed, he was inclined to look upon it as a trick of his own brain. Once Tom Reade reached the solid land he let his long legs out into a brisk run.
Let us suppose that among 5,000,000 of them the young married women were "protected" by the surviving shudder of that ancient Puritan scare what is M. Bourget going to do about those who lived among the 20,000,000? They were clean in their morals, they were pure, yet there was no easy divorce law to protect them.
As night drew down, the throng of miners increased. Luck had been bad for weeks; the camp was in a state of savage ill-humour. Not a few came to the saloon that night intending to show, if an opportunity offered, that neither Hitchcock nor any one else on earth could scare them. As minute after minute passed the tension increased.
"Mebby," said Captain Jeb, briefly. "But thar's boys wuth half a dozen good-sized men, and matey is that kind. You needn't scare about any little chap that ships with him. And what's to hurt him, anyhow, Padre? You've got to let all young critters try their legs and wings." And Freddy was trying his triumphantly this morning.
"You say you saw Waddington, or the bearded man?" asked Mr. Damon. "At the time," replied Tom, "I thought it was a dream. Now I know it wasn't. He must have opened the shaft just as I awakened from a doze. He saw me and closed it again. He may have been getting ready then to take off more of our men, so as to scare the others. Well, we've found out the trick."
I want to speak to you," said Mark huskily. "What, has he bitten you?" Mark dragged at his arm, and as soon as they were on the other side, panted out in a low whisper: "There's something on fire down below." "What!" shouted the mate in his surprise and horror. Then recovering himself, and knowing the risks attending a scare, "Poor boy!" he cried aloud.
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