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The steady-going eldest son, who had succeeded to his father's affairs without giving him the sense of dispossession, loyally accepted the popular belief that he would never be the man his father was.
To repeat one of my comparisons, it was as if an early fruit had ripened on a graft upon an old, steady-going tree, to the astonishment of all its later-maturing products. I should hardly dare to say so much as this if I had not heard a similar opinion expressed by others. Once committed to my undertaking, there was no turning back.
"But we'd hit the trail for the rescue whether they were our cousins or not!" declared Bud Merkel, as he kicked his heels against the flanks of his pony, and sent that steady-going animal forward with a rush. "Whoa there, son, whoa there!" advised Snake Purdee who was in leadership of the party. "That's right," chimed in Yellin' Kid, with his usual strident tones.
Also, Waitstill loomed large in his household comforts and economies, having a clear head, a sure hand, and being one of the steady-going, reliable sort that can be counted on in emergencies, not, like Patty, going off at half-cock at the smallest provocation.
Jim and I cuts off into the town, thinking we was due for a little fun. We'd never been in a big town before, and it was something new to us. Adelaide ain't as grand quite as Melbourne or Sydney, but there's something quiet and homelike about it to my thinking great wide streets, planted with trees; lots of steady-going German farmers, with their vineyards and orchards and droll little waggons.
The dinner was a very quiet business a couple of steady-going country gentlemen, with their wives and daughters, a son or two more or less dashing and sportsmanlike in style, the rector and his wife, Captain Sedgewick and Miss Nowell.
Reeve was an average widow with encumbrances. Ten years before she had married a steady-going man a cabinet-maker during working hours, and something of a Dissenter and a Radical in the evenings and on Sundays. His wages had touched thirty shillings, and they had lived in three rooms, first floor, in a quiet neighbourhood, keeping themselves to themselves, as they boasted without undue pride.
The Tutor followed with a quiet, steady-going nag; if he had driven the five-year-old, I would not have answered for the necks of the pair in the chaise, for he was too much taken up with the subject they were talking of, to be very careful about his driving. The Mistress and her escort brought up the rear, I holding the reins, the Professor at my side, and Number Seven sitting with the Mistress.
I think we're very lucky, both of us, to have such steady-going husbands, don't you, Alice?" At this point Aunt Martha buzzed into the other room and the cackle took on another complexion. In the meantime Bunch and I had passed away. "It's cold turkey," I whispered. "I've been in the refrigerator for ten minutes and I'm chilled to the bone," Bunch whispered back.
To my amazement, these men, who at home were most of them, probably, steady-going ``temperance men, were so overcome with the idea that champagne was to be served ad libitum, that the whole thing came near degenerating into an orgy.
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