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Besides if you get careless you'll scrape too hard: hence little holes in the completed buckskin. Also if you get careless you will probably leave the finest, tiniest shreds of grain, and each of them means a hard transparent spot in the product. Furthermore, once having started in on the job, you are like the little boy who caught the trolley: you cannot let go.
Catch them with the coat off and a great khaki apron enveloping the rest of their uniform, and you never saw lovelier women. No wonder the boys loved to see them working about the hut, loved to carry water and pick up the dishes for washing, and peel apples, and scrape out the bowl after the cake batter had been turned into the pans.
One of these years was spent in the law courts, and perhaps I should have come worse out of the scrape if I had not been made to study law when I was twenty.
"Heaven forbid that I should say anything as between gentleman and gentleman, but between me and my client, it's my duty to say, 'Sir, you are in a very unpleasant scrape, just as a doctor would have to tell his patient, 'Sir, you are very ill." "And you can't help me to pay this debt off, and you have come only to tell me that I may be accused of roguery?" says Harry.
Jack Wentworth raised his eyebrows and looked at him, as he might have looked at a wild beast in a rage. "Sit down, savage, and be quiet," he said. "Why should I trouble myself about you? any fool could get into your scrape. I am not in the habit of interfering in a case of common crime.
She had a great mind to cry, by way of getting out of the scrape; but having begun as a counsellor and peacemaker, it would never do to be babyish; and on his repeating the question, she said, in a tone which she could not prevent from being lachrymose, 'You make Guy almost angry, you tease him, and when people praise him, you answer as if it would not last!
And Tim replied sadly: "If a feller stuck me with a counterfeit I'd think I had a right to shove it along; but after all this scrape I'll keep my eyes open mighty wide, else it may be a case of the country for me, an' I ain't hankerin' after livin' on a farm, even if Pip Smith does think it's sich a soft snap."
He was a hearty-looking Irishman, and was soon as much interested in the telegram which Laurie was to send as the boy was himself. "You have heard what a scrape I have got into?" said Laurie. "About that poor, mad fellow?" said James Dunovan. "Yes; some other fellows and I stole his coat away in a fit of frolic that day when we were out in the crazy boat on the Coulin.
A man of my age to take pleasure in seeing that little head filled with follies and fancies of which I am the object. But can one let one be ever so old always act or think reasonably? You are mad, Marien! A child of fourteen! Bah! they make her out to be fourteen but she is fifteen and was not that the age of Juliet? But, you old graybeard, you are not Romeo! 'Ma foi'! I am in a pretty scrape.
"Well, sir! the grandson is born the day the grandfather dies! a cloudy morning has often a bright sunset' and though we are now sticking in a ditch, by the aid of St. Florian we may be soon feasting in a castle! Come, my merry men, I did not bring you here to show your ribbons; the sooner you help us out of this scrape the sooner you will be again dancing with the pretty maidens on the green!
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