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To be sure, narrow tires and soft-going made a difference. The country horse suggested that dragging a breaking plough through old sod was strenuous employment. Yes, it might be, but had the sorrel ever tightened the traces for a dash up a ferry bridgeway when the tide was out? No, the sorrel had done his hauling on land. He had never ridden on boats. He had heard them, though.
A man has to be master; and when he's come to be a little old-like, he has to see that he will be master. I never knew no good come of one of them soft-going fellows who is minded to give up whenever a woman wants anything. What's a woman? It ain't natural that she should have her way; and she don't like a man a bit better in the long-run because he lets her.
Jennings must acknowledge to a supercilious, yet sneaking air which charity has ere now been kind enough to think a conscious rectitude towards man, and a soft-going humility with God.
Jennings must acknowledge to a supercilious, yet sneaking air which charity has ere now been kind enough to think a conscious rectitude towards man, and a soft-going humility with God.
Once Miss Welland stopped to adjust her traveling-bag which had shifted a little in the straps. "Is riding cross-saddle uncomfortable for you?" asked Miss Van Arsdale. "Not in the least. I often do it at home." Suddenly her mount, a thick-set, soft-going pony shied, almost unseating her. A gun had banged close by. Immediately there was a second report.
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