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Then one day Sam Slawson came home with a tragic face. "I've lost my job, Martha!" he stated baldly. For a moment his wife stood silent under the blow, and all it entailed. Then, with an almost imperceptible squaring of her broad shoulders, she braced herself to meet it, as she herself would say, like a soldier. "Well, it's kinder hard on you, lad," she answered.
And the squaring of Edwin's shoulders conveyed to Miss Ingamells that he advised her to keep carefully within her own sphere, and not to make impertinent inquiries about the origin of the half-sovereign, which he could see intrigued her acutely. He now owned the box; it was not a box of colours, but a box of enchantment.
Well, he had succeeded and now one of the uses he was going to make of his success was to turn Lisbeth and her children out of their home by way of squaring matters with a dead man! Lisbeth had been away from home on a long visit to an aunt when he had left Chiswick. She was growing up and the childish intimacy was fading.
But she turned aside, ignoring her waiting driver in her wild and reckless abandonment of all her old conventional attitudes, and lashing her horse forward with the same set smile on her face, the same odd relaxation of figure, and the same squaring of her elbows.
Meynell thought, looking at the house, and squaring his broad shoulders unconsciously. "It's not my business to hate him not at all rather to respect and sympathize with him. I provoke the fight and I may be thankful to have lit on a strong antagonist. What's Stephen afraid of? What can they do? Let 'em try!" A smile contemptuous and good-humoured crossed the Rector's face.
In spite of his age and experience, he did not understand that the world values men according to the resistance they interpose against it; according to the stamping down of feet and the presenting of shoulders and the squaring arms to take its blows.
By the bye, when a man of the world falls into a bit of luck, has a few shillings extra in his pocket I'm ashamed to speak of it, but there's a rule of conduct in the case. No treating, no purchase of expensive class-books, no squaring of old debts; borrow, don't lend. 'Macfarlane, began Fettes, still somewhat hoarsely, 'I have put my neck in a halter to oblige you.
The man drew himself up suddenly, and, squaring his shoulders, made as though to speak and then, with a swift, hopeless gesture, turned his back, and, leaning over the top of the safe, buried his head in his arms. A strange smile touched Jimmie Dale's lips.
It seemed that he had slipped away in order to take part in a race, and I found him "squaring off" at a bigger boy who had tripped him up. Without a word I carried him home, followed by the jeers and laughter of the racers, the girls making their presence known in the early December twilight by the shrillness of their voices and by manners no gentler than those of the boys.
They go over the side just as they would step from an over-laden sledge." I next inquired if the trader did not first throw out the men to whom he was most indebted, but could not obtain information on that point. It is probable that with an eye to business he disposes promptly of his creditors and keeps debtors to the last. What a magnificent system of squaring accounts!
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