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The worst of it was that Puttock had the reputation of being an uncommonly good hand at a bargain. "Yet Mr. Medland's a very clever man," he observed. "Oh, clever, yes; but I fear unstable, Mr. Benham." "I suppose so. After all a man's private life is some guide, isn't it?" "Some guide!" exclaimed Puttock. "Surely you understate the case. If a man's private life is discreditable "
"You understate it, my dear Spennie." "But I'm not a cad." "You're getting quite rosy, Spennie. Wrath is good for the complexion." "And if you think you can bribe me to do your dirty work, you never made a bigger mistake in your life." "Yes, I did," said Wesson, "when I thought you had some glimmerings of intelligence.
Your entire statement in the "Memoirs" concerning my part in the Meridian campaign is incorrect. You overstate my strength, placing it at seven thousand effective, when it was but six. The nominal strength of my command was seven thousand. You understate the strength of my enemy, putting Forrest's force at four thousand.
It's not the sort of game you'd shine at. Better stick to picquet." "If you think I can't pay your rotten money " "I do. But, if you can, so much the better. Money is always useful." "I may be a fool in some ways " "You understate it, my dear man." " but I'm not a cad." "You're getting quite rosy, Dreever. Wrath is good for the complexion."
He had less of that fluency which Irishmen cultivate, seldom ventured on an epigram, never on an anecdote, was guardedly circumspect as to statements of fact, and, on the whole, liked to understate his case, and affect distrust of his own opinion.
We may take it as certain that, during the three serious wars above named, the annual waste was never less than 6 per cent. This is, perhaps, to put it too low; but it is better to understate the case than to appear to exaggerate it. The recruiting demand, therefore, for a year of increased armament will be the sum of the increase in men plus the waste on the previous year's numbers.
Dear Sir, In reply to your letter of the 22nd inst., I beg to inform you that I have made careful inquiries into the case of Molloy, a tenant on Lord Kenmare's estate. I find that so far from exaggerating the scope of this incident, you somewhat understate the case. The full particulars were as follow: The estate bailiffs visited the house of Molloy, a tenant who owed £30 rent and arrears.
It was present to her as an agreeable negative, I must add, that her father and sister took no strenuous view of her responsibility or of their own: they neither brought the matter home to her as a crime nor made her worse through her feeling them anxiously understate their blame. There was a pleasant cheerful helplessness in her father on this head as on every other.
Scott with the utmost care, he preferring to have the contributors understate rather than overstate the results that have come from the labors of Tuskegee and its people. It has been the Principal's pleasure and privilege to examine and critically review the manuscript after its completion, and the volume is so praiseworthy that it is given his cordial approval.
Billie switched on the head-lights and turned the car down the dark drive. She was feeling thoroughly upset. Her idealistic nature had received a painful shock on the discovery of the yellow streak in Bream. To call it a yellow streak was to understate the facts. It was a great belt of saffron encircling his whole soul.
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