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"Now then, my dear Hawkehurst," began that gentleman, squaring himself in his comfortable arm-chair, and extending his legs before the cheery fire, "let us have a little friendly chat. I am not given to beating about the bush, you know, and whatever I have to say I shall say in very plain words.
He was almost sorry that he had not taken Walker's gun. If Bucky came alone it would be with but one purpose in mind to make sure of Scottie Dean by "squaring up" with him first. Billy was sure that he had measured the man right, and that he would not hesitate to carry out his old threat by putting a bullet into him at the first opportunity. And here would be opportunity.
Hoopdriver, and then he became aware of a figure in a light suit shooting violently through an open gate into the night. The man in gaiters sprang forward past Mr. Hoopdriver, but too late to intercept the fugitive. There were shouts, laughter, and Mr. Hoopdriver, still solemnly squaring, realized the great and wonderful truth Charles had fled.
"Phooh!" said Joel a few mornings after the emptying of the little brown house into the big one, when he and Van were rehearsing for the fiftieth time all the points of the eventful night, "phooh! if I'd been here they wouldn't have got away, I guess!" "What would you have done?" asked Van, bristling up at this reflection on their courage, and squaring up to him.
She changed her position on the chair, squaring herself before the parchment, and tried again, but she seemed unable to use the quill. She placed it on the table and laughed nervously. "I surely am a great fool," she said. "When I take the quill in my hand, I tremble like a squire on his quintain trial.
He straightened up, squaring his shoulders. "This won't do," he said. "I'm not going to distress you frighten you again." The smile he forced was certainly a credit to him. "Shiela, you'd love me if you could, wouldn't you?" "Y-yes," with a shiver. "Then it's all right and you mustn't worry.... Can't we get back to the old footing again?" "N-no; it's gone." "Then we'll find even firmer ground."
The other day," said my friend, and in squaring himself comfortably in his chair and finding room for his elbow on the corner of my table he knocked off some books for review, "I went to a dime museum for an hour that I had between two appointments, and I must say that I never passed an hour's time more agreeably.
"Why, do you know," he began again, squaring around on the Angel, "I've spent twenty thousand dollars on that apartment of mine, trying to make it sound-proof so that I could make ten thousand by writing! I rented the apartment below me had to, in order to get a fellow out whose son was learning the violin.
Franklin passed on in the direction which had been pointed out to him, looking about him at the strange, new country, in which he felt the proprietorship of early discovery. He drew in deep breaths of an air delightfully fresh, squaring his shoulders and throwing up his head instinctively as he strode forward. The sky was faultlessly clear.
We had nearly all heard this story before, but still it was a pleasure to get Wood started, so we all urged him to proceed. "Well, it came about this way," said Sam, squaring himself in his chair, as we lit our cigars. "It was in the old flush days, you know, Goodness! How I wish we had some more mining camps now like Ed's old town.
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