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"In that case we wouldn't have won the honor," Dick smilingly insisted. "Then consider that fellow Cartwright," Greg added, lowering his voice a bit. "He's a born shirker, and one weak company would make a regiment that much poorer." "If Cartwright shirks, then mark my word that he'll be dropped," Dick rejoined quickly.
Serjeant Shirker has formally written to break off an engagement, on the conclusion of which Miss Temple must herself have speculated, when she alienated the greater part of her fortune. 'And here's your famous theory of poor marriages! Essex Temple cries, concluding the above history. 'How do you know that I don't want to marry myself? How do you dare sneer at my poor sister?
Strange it was to see that Gulden, who Joan thought might be a shirker, did twice the work of any man, especially the heavy work. He seemed to enjoy carrying a log that would have overweighted two ordinary men. He was so huge, so active, so powerful that it was fascinating to watch him.
"In short, your charge is that I am a shirker and, since it's the same thing, a coward?" Adrienne did not at once answer him, but she straightened out for an uninterrupted run before the wind, and by the tiny moss-green flecks, which moments of great seriousness brought to the depths of her eyes, he knew that she meant to speak the unveiled truth.
Scott fried between them? And how he parades his humility, and exhibits his miserable poverty he who, at that time, must have been making a thousand pounds a year? Well, Shirker was just as proud of his prudence just as thankful for his own meanness, and of course would not marry without a competency. Who so honourable? Polly waited, and waited faintly, from year to year.
It was no use trying to explain all this to his father and mother, for they wouldn't understand it. The more he explained the more he would seem to them to be a shirker. He could see what they thought of him. He saw it in their stiff, reticent faces, in his mother's strained smile, in his sister's silence when he asked her what she had been doing all day.
Like the immortal Captain Pott, Trevor was "a terror to the shirker and the lubber". And the resemblance was further increased by the fact that he was "a toughish lot", who was "little, but steel and india-rubber". At first sight his appearance was not imposing.
The boss of a trail herd cannot be a shirker, and Sanderson did his full share of the work. Tonight he had the midnight shift. At two o'clock he would ride back to camp, awaken his successor, and turn in to sleep until morning. Because of the proximity of the herd to Devil's Hole an extra man had been told off for the nightwatch, and Soapy and the Kid were doing duty with Sanderson.
Bosengate looked round to where, at the head of the table, Gentleman Fox sat, in defensive gentility and the little white piping to his waistcoat saying blandly: "I shall be happy to take the sense of the jury." There was a short silence, then the chemist murmured: "I should say he must have what they call claustrophobia." "Clauster fiddlesticks! The feller's a shirker, that's all.
And then, when they only ask you to let your land grow food that the German pirates and murderers mayn't starve us into a horrible submission then you bar your gates you make endless trouble, when the country wants every hour of every man's time you, in your position, give the lead to every shirker and coward! No! I can't bear it any more! I must go.
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