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Though I haven't any reason to suspect him yet!" he quickly added. "What are we going to do!" asked Dick, as he saw his cousin slacking his pony's pace. "Shall we go on to the end of the rustler's trail, or follow Four Eyes." "Neither one," answered Bud. "At least not just yet," he added, as he saw Nort and Dick look at him curiously. "Let Four Eyes go, for the time being.
An individual, notoriously slack and incompetent, ten years his junior, had been promoted over his head, because he was somebody's cousin and the kind of fatuous ass that only labours industriously in drawing-rooms and at functions, recuperating by slacking idly in offices and at duties a paltry but paying game much practised by a very small class in India.
Around the bend came the six-cylinder touring car. The driver, with a surprised look on his face, was slacking up. He ran his machine up alongside of Tom's. "Say," he asked, in dazed tones, "did you take a short cut, or anything like that to get ahead of me?" "No," answered the youth. "And you didn't jump me in the air?" "No," was Tom's answer, smilingly given.
"In truth," rejoined Karl, "it may be worth attending to; for that Russian courier, all plastered with lace, who came, without slacking bridle, from St. Petersburg to Leipsic, only to see you, rode so fast, perhaps, for the purpose " Morok abruptly interrupted Karl, and said: "Who told you that the arrival of the courier had anything to do with these travellers?
Every rope and shroud was thrumming and screeching in resistance to the fierce weight of the squall. "Stand by main halyards! Jump!" he could hear Skipper shouting loudly; also he heard the high note of the mainsheet screaming across the sheaves as Van Horn, bending braces in the dark, was swiftly slacking the sheet through his scorching palms with a single turn on the cleat.
Fortunately, he was securely hooked, and there was no drop out from the slacking of the line. He was in about twelve feet of water, and as I brought the line taut on him again he went off down stream as fast as ever. I had the current full against him this time, and I brought him steadily up through it, and held him well in hand. I swept him around in front of Mr.
After a year, he is still in England. "Why doesn't he go out again?" people ask. "He looks well enough. He must be slacking." But they realise nothing of the waiting at night for the dreaded, oft-repeated dreams; they cannot tell of the horrible visions that war can bring, they do not know what it means, that neurasthenia, that hell on earth. It is difficult to forget what must be forgotten.
"Life is infernally difficult for most of us," said Piers. They rode in silence for awhile, and then he changed the subject. It was not till they returned that Crowther announced his intention of leaving on the following day. "I've no time for slacking," he said. "I didn't come Home to slack. And there's the mother waiting for me." "Oh, man," Piers said suddenly, "how I wish I had a mother!"
As Gid was passing the house of Wash Sanders, the endless invalid came out upon the porch and called him: "Won't you 'light?" "No, don't believe I've got time," Gid answered, slacking the pace of his horse. "How are you getting along?" "Not at all. Got no relish for victuals. Don't eat enough to keep a chicken alive. Can't stand it much longer." "Want to bet on it?" Gid cried. "What's that?"
You can go through contemporary life fudging and evading, indulging and slacking, never really hungry nor frightened nor passionately stirred, your highest moment a mere sentimental orgasm, and your first real contact with primary and elemental necessities, the sweat of your death-bed. So I think it was with my uncle; so, very nearly, it was with me. But the glider brought me up smartly.
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