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The First President was shrewdly attacked in the House for not being more resolute in speaking to the Queen. Some were for sending him back to demand another audience in the afternoon; and the Duc d'Orleans having said that the Marshals of France were dependent on Mazarin, it was resolved immediately that they should obey none but his Royal Highness.
"Yes; so far," answered the man. "Will you do me a great favor? Just step inside and tell him that there is a man outside who wants to see him. Just tell him that, and nothing more." "Are you from Drake's wife?" asked the man, looking Dick over shrewdly. "Yes," Dick admitted, candidly. "I'll do it," nodded the man. "Drake has been making a fool of himself.
"Father," interrupted Percy, in a cool and nonchalant tone, as he folded his arms, and looked straight and shrewdly on the paternal face "father, let us understand each other. My schooling, I suppose, is rather an expensive affair?" "You may well say that, sir! Expensive! It is frightful, horrible, ruinous! Expensive!
But Plank was shrewdly covering his principal reason for declining; he had too often "temporarily" assisted Mortimer at Desmond's and Burbank's, when Mortimer, cleaned out and unable to draw against a balance non-existent, had plucked him by the sleeve from the faro table with the breathless request for a loan. "I tell you I can wring Desmond dry to-night," repeated Mortimer sullenly.
"That's pride, it's not conceit. It's quite a different thing." "It's about the same to other people," said Rosalind shrewdly. "We both gave ourselves airs, and the wesult was the same, whatever caused it. I was pwoud of my face, and you were pwoud of your your er family and your cleverness, and the twicks you played; so if I confess, you ought to confess too.
"For he pondered on the arts of war: he wielded in his clasp the ruddy-flashing wood, and victoriously with noble stroke made their fallen captain writhe. "Shrewdly he conquered with the hardness of gold him whom fate forbade should be slain by steel; unsworded, waging war with the worthier metal.
"Show him in," he said abruptly, and while he waited in the office rated himself for his folly in wasting time. Underneath bushy brows steel-gray eyes took Dave in shrewdly. "Well, what is it?" snapped the millionaire. "The new gusher in the Malapi pool," answered Sanders at once, and his gaze was as steady as that of the big state-builder. "You represent the parties that own it?" "Yes."
What lurked beneath, they surmised as shrewdly as they could, but it was impossible, with plummet and fathom-line ever in hand, to sound the way with perfect accuracy, where the quicksands were ever shifting, and the depth or shallowness of the course perpetually varying.
Carson was an Englishman, who never ought to have mixed himself up with a lot like that." Again came that expressive jerk of the head, and his small bright eyes regarded me more shrewdly and observantly than ever. "Let me give you a word of warning, Mr. Wynn; don't you follow his example. Remember Russia's not England " "I know. I've been there before. Besides, my chief warned me last night."
On the other hand, alarmed by sudden success, achieved by the disruption of long-lived business methods, and the loss of confidence in exchange values, on the part of the public in consequence of this disruption; the generals of the competitive system, aided with but few exceptions, by the press, university and pulpit, have shrewdly endeavored to evade responsibility, for the disastrous panics which have followed such revolutionary methods.
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