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Hot place, wasn't it!" "We made out very well, sir," answered Mr. Adams, shortly. "But while we were gone our cabin was robbed. How do you account for that?" "Meaning, I suppose, that you think I can account for it." "Anybody who would tamper with boats would tamper with a cabin, we reckon," growled Mr. Grigsby. "You seem bound to be personal," retorted the long-nosed man.
"Bear it for William's sake," said the Dean, softly, "and, meanwhile take my advice and don't read any more Renan!" Kitty looked at him curiously. "I prefer to see things as they are." The Dean sighed. "That none of us can do, my dear Lady Kitty. No one can satisfy his intelligence. But religion speaks to the will and it is the only thing between us and the void. Don't tamper with it!
The Government listened to complaints of persecution, as any sovereign power is required to do, and was naturally impressed with the weightiness of some of the charges; yet so little inclined was it to tamper with Massachusetts that the colony might have succeeded, for a longer time at least, in maintaining the integrity of its control, had not the question of colonial trade brought matters to a crisis.
Incapable but confident and energetic persons, having political influence, will have been permitted to tamper with the various arms of the service, the equipment will be largely devised to create an impression of efficiency in times of peace in the minds of the general voting public, and the really efficient soldiers will either have fretted themselves out of the army or have been driven out as political non-effectives, troublesome, innovating persons anxious to spend money upon "fads."
The rapidly increasing use of money in elections, for the undisguised purchase of votes, and the growing disposition to tamper with the ballot and the tally-sheet, are some of the symptoms. . . . Do you think that you will convince the average election officer that it is a great crime to cheat in the return of votes, when he knows that a good share of those votes have been purchased with money?
Carducci, with an Italian's volubility, commenced to hurl imprecations upon the heads of the unknown sons of dogs who dared to tamper with his master's safe, and while we were engaged in putting the scattered papers in order the door-bell rang, and the clerk went to attend to the caller. In a few moments he returned, saying
"Just stopped by to give you the proverbial handshake of good luck before we blast off," replied the spaceman with a mocking wink. "Kit doesn't need your good wishes," snapped Sid. "Well, now, that's too bad," said Quent. "I have a feeling that he's going to need a lot more than luck." "Listen, Miles," snapped Kit, "did you come aboard my ship and tamper with the fuel?" Quent's eyes clouded.
"We have nothing to do now but to set to work opening a way into the vault, and I trust that Heaven will pardon me for thus desecrating the tomb of my ancestors, from a consideration of the object I have in view by so doing." "It does seem wrong thus to tamper with the secrets of the tomb," remarked Mr. Marchdale. "The secrets of a fiddlestick!" said the doctor.
As the laws of the United State wuz, he could not make any move towards doin' either of the errents. Says I, "Can't the laws be changed?" "Be changed? Change the laws of the United States? Tamper with the glorious Constitution that our 4 fathers left us an immortal, sacred legacy?"
Did he frankly support either party in his kingdom, or cheat and tamper with both? He might have escaped; but he must have his supper: and so his family was butchered and his kingdom lost, and he had his bottle of Burgundy in comfort at Varennes.
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