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They can't face the meanwhile that's what it comes to." "Fine old crop of catchwords in that situation," Mr Williams remarked; and his eye had the spark of the practical politician. "Can't you hear 'em at it, eh?" "It scares them out of everything but hand-to-mouth politics. Any other remedy is too heroic.
Just started? Good! We're waiting for him." Hobson replaced the receiver upon the instrument. "Downs is coming right along," he announced. "I tell you what it is, Mr. Crawshay," he went on, recommencing his walk up and down the apartment, "I don't feel happy to be so far away from the coast. That's what scares me. Chicago's just about the place they'd land us, if this is a hanky-panky trick.
There had been war scares before. But the peace of Europe had been preserved for forty years or more, through one crisis after another. And so it was a stunning surprise, even to Grenfel, when, as they came into Putney High street, just before they reached Putney Bridge, they met a swam of newsboys excitedly shrieking extras. "Germany threatens Russia!" they yelled. "War sure!" Mr.
"That's so," he added thoughtfully, and smiled gratefully over a fate that had been indulgent to him in a matter of fathers and limousines. "Look at the newspapers! Maybe we shall be going to war," said the manufacturer's son. "Stuff! Nonsense!" said the judge's son. "We are always having scares. They sell papers and give the fellows at the Foreign Office a chance to look unconcerned.
She came home in the fall, and when she called at the Burtons' to get a book, as usual, Mrs. Burton said, "Nelie, you're not feeling very well, are you? Somehow you looked fagged." "Well, I do feel queer," said the girl. "I seem to be in a kind of dream. It scares me. I'm afraid I'm going to be sick." "Oh, I guess not," Mrs. Burton answered comfortably. "You're just tired out.
Scott very cautiously laid his net level, stole forward, shining the lantern light full on the darting, hazy-winged creature, which was now poised, hovering over a white blossom and probing the honeyed depths with a long, slim proboscis. "I thought it might be only a Lineata, but it isn't," he said excitedly. "Did you ever see such a timid moth? The slightest step scares the creature."
Vigorous persecution will alone carry a bill sometimes, dear; and when you start with a strong vote in the first place, persecution comes in with double effect. It scares off some of the weak supporters, true, but it soon turns strong ones into stubborn ones. And then, presently, it changes the tide of public opinion.
To these fortunate ones death may be but a date, and dying a subject fruitful in comparisons, a matter on which experiences may be serenely compared. Meantime, however, we have not yet reached that measureless content, and death scares, piques, tantalises, as mind and nerve are built.
Lord Valleys controlled a yawn. "Really? I'd no idea Courtier had any influence." "He is dangerous. Most idealists are negligible-his book was clever." "I wish to goodness we could see the last of these scares, they only make both countries look foolish," muttered Lord Valleys. Lady Casterley raised her glass, full of a bloody red wine. "The war would save us," she said. "War is no joke."
"One should stop and see if it is a wise love, likely to help both parties and wear well, for you know it ought to last all one's lifetime, and it is very sad if it doesn't." "I declare it quite scares me to think of it, for I don't usually go beyond my wedding day in making plans.
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