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That which troubled him, striking him as unsound and misleading, was the fact that the profits, as set forth in the newspaper article, were calculated so at least it was evident to Iglesias on the results of such development when completed, irrespective of the lapse of time required for such development; irrespective of possible and arresting accident; irrespective, too, of immediate and even protracted loss by the tying-up of huge sums of money which could yield but little or no return until the said process of development was an accomplished fact.
The phrase "tying-up" brought with it recollection of the worst portion of military discipline, the cat, and revived in the minds of the pair already disposed to break the yoke that sat so heavily upon them, a train of dismal memories. The life of a soldier on a convict station was at that time a hard one.
"I will," said he, with a tone and manner something like self-respect and respect for his wife, "I will, miss, with pleasure;" and he pulled his old hat from his head, and bowed low, while Emma bade him good-by. "Go out upon the hills, my love," called Mrs. Lindsay from her window to Emma; "it will do you no good to be tying-up flowers, and talking with ragged old men by the roadside.
As is often the case on such occasions, a trifle sufficed to turn the scale. The wounded Grimes, who was slowly recovering from his stupor, dimly caught the meaning of the sentence, and in his obfuscated condition of intellect must needs make comment upon it. "Go with him, ye beggars!" said he, "and leave us honest men! Oh, ye'll get a tying-up for this."
In fact, there were a hundred reasons against legal interference, and legal tying-up of the money, with all that dreadful jargon about "whereas," and "hereinafter," and "provided always," and "nothing herein contained," which seems to hedge round a sum of money so closely, that it is doubtful whether the actual owner will ever be free to spend a sixpence of it after the execution of that formidable document intended to protect it from possible marauders.
In the honest sunlight Dan's spirits rose, and as I investigated various byways he asked "where the sense came in tying-up a dog that was doing no harm running loose." "It weren't as though she'd taken to chivying cattle," he added, as, a mob of inquisitive steers trotting after us, I hurried Roper in among the riders; and then he wondered "how she'll shape at her first muster."
This is called 'The Young Man Bound and Bounding, from the widely-spread habit of tying-up the limbs of the medium, and from his customary convulsions. To all of these forms of magic, or spiritualism, the presence and aid of 'spirits' is believed to be necessary, with, perhaps, the exception of the sportive or conjuring class. A spirit helps to cure and helps to kill.
Old Barnes had come down well for once, and they were dressed in real good style hadn't overdone it neither. When the tying-up fakement was over everything went off first-rate. The bridegroom was a hardy-looking, upstanding young chap that looked as if work was no trouble to him. Next to a squatter I think a Government surveyor's the best billet going.
"My solicitor tells me, too, that a guardianship by will is the very strongest tying-up of a rich young ward. We can follow on later, perhaps, if this opening could be made, but where have we a 'Prince Djiddin, and where, the wonderful 'Moonshee?" "There is Prince Djiddin," laughed Captain Murray, pointing to Major Harry Hardwicke, "and here is the Moonshee," he tapped his own broad breast.
"Yes, although it won't make much difference. Nikol could release the rest of us." "I thought the second tying-up might have made it impossible," said Hal. "I'm ready any time you give the word," said Nikol. "Then do it now," said Hal. The others gazed curiously as Nikol made his little form still smaller.
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