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"I tell you, it isn't fair!" he cried in rage and appeal. "I tell you, I was only visiting on this side and got caught! I'm a reservist of the first line. If I don't answer the call I'll be branded a shirker in my village, and I've got to live in that village all my life. You better kill me and have done with it!" "Sorry," said one of the soldiers, "but you were caught trying to sneak.
Britling after a pause. This was right, of course the only right thing and yet he was surprised. "She says if you'd let her try to do my work for a time...." "She wants you to go?" "Of course she does," said Teddy. "She wouldn't like me to be a shirker.... But I can't unless you help." "I'm quite ready to do that," said Mr. Britling. "But somehow I didn't think it of you.
Before I could move, he had gripped me by the collar, and swung me about, so that the light streaming out from the cabin fell directly on my face. "What the devil are you doing, loafing aft here?" he demanded roughly, staring into my eyes. "Didn't you hear the orders, you damned shirker? I've seen you hanging about for ten minutes, never lifting a hand. Who the hell are you anyhow the captain?"
"Oh!" said Olga, and then with a touch of shyness, "I'm sorry, Max." "No," he said. "You needn't be sorry. He was no shirker. His time was up." "But wasn't it a pity?" she said. He smiled a little. "I don't think he thought so. He was happy enough at the last." "But if he had only been vindicated first!" she said. "Do you think that matters?" Max's smile became cynical.
G. Don't make me feel worse than I do. Will it satisfy you if I own that I am a shirker, a skrim-shanker, and a coward? M. It will not, because I'm the only man in the world who can talk to you like this without being knocked down. You mustn't take all that I've said to heart in this way.
That's your argument, isn't it?" Boland nodded. "It's part of my argument, not all of it. Of course he's doing no harm; he's doing good every day. He's got a stiff hand for the shirker and the wanton, but he's a man that knows his mind, and that's a good thing in Jamaica." "Does he come here-ever?" "He has been here only once since our arrival.
Do not forget that all that we know we have "worked for." There is nothing that comes to the idler, or shirker. What we know is merely the result of "stored-up accumulations of previous experience," as Lewes has so well said. So it will be seen that the Yogi idea that one should develop all parts of the Mind is strictly correct, if one will take the trouble to examine into the matter.
"What is there to forgive?" she asked. "The fact that I was in the very act of losing my temper. That's all." Presently, when Louise was ascending the stairs with Mrs. Bond, the girl asked: "Why was Hugh so put out? What has Mrs. Spicer been saying about him?" "Only that he was a shirker during the war. And, naturally, he is highly indignant." "He has a right to be. He did splendidly.
Her ambition had been to go upon the stage and she had acted on tour in the country; but she declared that theatrical life wearied her and she had promised her future husband to abandon the art. "Did you ever hear Captain Redmayne speak of his niece and her husband?" Brendon inquired, and Flora Reed answered: "He did; and he always said that Michael Pendean was a 'shirker' and a coward.
'I will tell you my case, says Essex Temple; 'mine and my sister Polly's, and you may make what you like of it; and sneer at old maids, and bully old bachelors, if you will. 'I will whisper to you confidentially that my sister was engaged to Serjeant Shirker a fellow whose talents one cannot deny, and be hanged to them, but whom I have always known to be mean, selfish, and a prig.
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