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"He has made an ass of himself, no doubt, Dick; but I fancy a good many fellows do that at one time or other of their lives, though not, I grant, always in the same way." "Well, I will go, Mark. I need not ask Boldero, for he told me that he should look in again at ten o'clock this evening, for he thought that another night's play would probably bring Cotter to the end of his tether."
Niver while the world stands!" growled Morel. And he went on striking. He was tired. "It's a heart-breaking job," said Barker. But Morel was too exasperated, at the end of his tether, to answer. Still he struck and hacked with all his might. "Tha might as well leave it, Walter," said Barker. "It'll do to-morrow, without thee hackin' thy guts out."
In his distress Falco conceived and set about putting into practice a scheme such as he would never have thought of or entertained if he had been the man he was when he bought me. When he was himself he had been the reverse of dishonorable. He came to me and said: "We are at the end of our tether, Pullanius and his gang will break off negotiations tomorrow if I can't get hold of Salinator.
No clerk without a bureau, no bureau without a clerk. That's a serious question. Is a prefect a clerk?" Bixiou. "But you don't mean that a functionary is not a clerk? that's an absurdity." Godard. "The clerk is the order, the functionary the species." Bixiou. "La, la, papa, don't step on your tether. If you stand still and listen, we shall come to an understanding before long.
They were a goodly company; and there was fun in the railway-carriage over Colney's description of Fashionable London's vast octopus Malady-monster, who was letting the doctor fly to the tether of its longest filament for an hour, plying suckers on him the while.
"Tether him. You did once. It's up to you; it's usually up to a woman when a man wanders untethered. What one woman, or a dozen, can do with a man his wife can do in the same fashion! What won him in the beginning always holds good until he thinks he has won you. Then the average man flourishes his heels. He is doing it.
They would keep this up until they finally dozed off; very often that would be in the early hours of the morning. Like father, like son; the virtues of young Indians were extremely few. They reach their tether when they fail to benefit self. Their morality was in a very low state. I do not remember that I saw much of it, if I did it was hardly noticible.
"Let's get started and boost him up, then," urged Rector. "No, let the beggar rest. I haven't the heart to drag him up that mountain again until he recovers from the shock. We'll tether him and help Anvik get the provisions up first. Stacy, are you able to work?" "What you want me to do?" "Carry some of these stores up." The fat boy shook his head. "My weak heart won't stand it," he answered.
It had been pleasant while it lasted, but I had reached the end of my tether now. I don't think I was frightened, but a sense of pathos stole over me. I had meant so well. It seemed as if good intentions went for nothing in this world. I had tried so hard to please everybody, and this was the result tied up in a dark stable, waiting for the end.
"Well said, canny Yorkshire!" replied his friend; "and but now you were so earnest to see our good lord! Why, wouldst thou put the lad into the noose that thou mayst slip tether thyself? or dost thou think the maiden will clasp his fair young neck more willingly than thy old sunburnt weasand?" "Go to," answered the falconer; "thy wit towers high an it could strike the quarry.
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