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"But I shall soon make opportunities! " she thought, passionately; "I'm not going to be a shirker!" Aloud she said in her stiffest manner "I stand by my friends, Mr. Winnington, especially when they are ten times better and nobler than I!" His expression changed. He turned, like any courteous stranger, to playing the part of showman of the house. Once more a veil had fallen between them.
So too for the crew: the keen sailor would have been made look-out man or captain of the watch, or given some sort of precedence, and the lazy shirker have tasted the rope's end half a dozen times a day. The metaphorical ship, your worship, is likely to be capsized by its captain's incompetence. Mo. He is sweeping on to victory, with wind and tide. Zeus. Too probable, Momus.
You might go with me now to New York, and still feel that you are no shirker." "You are most kind, Mr. Hardy. I believe that next to Willet and Tayoga you are the greatest and best of my friends. Why, I know not, nor do I ask now, but the fact is patent, and I thank you many times over, although I can't accept your offer. I'm committed to this expedition and there my heart lies, too.
He had sacrificed the dearest thing on earth, he had lost the woman he loved. Nancy could never be his now. She had driven him from her mind and heart, because she believed him to be a shirker, a recreant, a coward. He took from his pocket-book the white feather she had given him, and looked at it. Yes, that was what she thought of him. A coward!
Bob felt himself to be a complete outsider. He too was going by that train, but no one thought of cheering him indeed, no one spoke to him. He was what the people called a shirker. He would have given anything he possessed to have gone up to Trevanion, and said, "I'll go with you," but he could not. If he did, he would have to uproot the Faith of a lifetime.
Keller growled something about all "darned half-breeds" being glad of any excuse to shirk duty. Frewen took him up sharply: "This man is no shirker, sir. He is as good a man as ever 'stood up' to strike a whale. Did you ever see a better one?" Keller looked at his second officer with fourteen months' repressed brutality glowering in his savage eyes. "I'm the captain of this ship.
I am doing my utmost, but I cannot pour instruction down your throat any more than you can make a horse drink by leading him to the trough. Now look here, boy, with all your faults you are no coward; haven't you the pluck to get to know yourself and stop being a shirker? Think what that means! A fellow never to be trusted, a lazy, good-for-nothing, cowardly loafer.
Why hadn't that white-haired gasbag, Mrs. Bilton Mr. Twist's thoughts were sometimes unjust joined them sooner? Why had that shirker Dellogg died? He got his bootlaces hopelessly into knots. "I'd like to start right in getting the rooms fixed up, Mr. Twist," said the manager pleasantly. "Mrs. Hart of Boston is very " "See here," said Mr.
I believe in my own way I was almost as fond of him as you were. But I knew he was going long ago, and that nothing on earth could stop him. He knew it too. Between ourselves, I don't think he much wanted to stop. But there was nothing unwholesome about him. He wasn't a shirker. He played the game. And now you're going to play it, eh? You're going to buck up.
A bath, a change, and ten minutes out there on the battery watching the sun come up over the sea," Carteret said. "So don't waste compassion on me. I'm as fit as a fiddle and in no wise deserve it." "Ah! but you and Aunt Felicia did stay," she repeated, her hands still rather tremulously busy with coffee-pot and milk jug. "You were faithful and I no better than a shirker.
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