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Competition is the life of trade; but it also encourages boys to do their level best. There would be a brave fight for that banner; and no walk-over. The troop that won it might well be proud of the honor. And Paul was still full of faith.
The manly eyes and the strong voice satisfied her, and his preoccupation with some unexpected details of duty flattered her. Other girls were weeping, but she felt a sort of noble distinction in the abstraction with which they parted. Only at the last moment he said, "Don't forget my mother. It mayn't be such a walk-over as I supposed," and he laughed at the notion.
The hogs were wiry and pugnacious, and the circumstantial evidence plainly indicated that the bears had no walk-over. However, the bears managed to get one emaciated porker after a long chase, and they bit several samples out of him. They didn't devour the whole carcass, and they didn't try pork again for two months.
Our client, Miss Yvonne Sinclair, of the Regal Theatre, is suing you for ten thousand pounds. And, if you ask me," said the young man with genial candour, dropping the professional manner, "I don't mind telling you, I think it's a walk-over! It's the best little action for breach we've handled for years." He became professional again. "Your lawyers will no doubt communicate with us in due course.
After he thought he had inflicted sufficient torture upon the timid fellow, the Confederate put up his weapon and demanded: "What State are you from?" "Massachusetts, sir." "Are all Massachusetts men as great cowards as you are?" "Certainly, sir," answered the steward, who was afraid to say anything else. "Then we're going to have a walk-over, sure enough," said the rebel.
"It will have to be largely a case of bluff," he confided, "and we must make it stick. We have no time for lawing, and if we did, the shysters would get it all. Bart isn't easily buffaloed and will put up a stiff fight. Of course we've got the age on him those hides are a strong card but we're not going to have a walk-over. I can't see my way clear just yet, but it will work out as we go along.
We are badly handicapped, because both of these other troops in the county have been working all summer; and we've got to come up from behind in our attempt to capture the prize. That's right, isn't it, fellows?" "Sure! We only want to know if they're going to make a big fight; or whether they expect to have a walk-over.
In the line, tackle to tackle, I think we'll even up with them. As for our ends, I believe we can show better goods than they can, although Mumford, who played with them last year, is a very good man. I'm not telling you this to discourage you, for I firmly believe we're going to win, but I don't want you to think that it's going to be a walk-over, for it isn't, not by any manner of means.
But all I want to say is this, that I'm off " Ashley turned quickly. "Off? Where?" "Where we're not likely to meet for some little time again." "Oh, but I say! You can't " "Can't what, Colonel?" "Can't drop drop out of the running damn it all, man! you can't you can't let it be a walk-over for me after all that's " "That's where you've made your mistake, Colonel, I guess.
Iglesias could not flatter himself that the campaign would result in an easy walk-over for so much of the British army as a supine and annoyed Government condescended to place in the field. The whole affair lay heavy on his soul. It lay there all the heavier that a few days subsequent to the declaration of war Mr. Iglesias' thought was unexpectedly swept back into the arena of speculative finance.
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