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Meanwhile he played his part of a wild young cowpuncher ready for any mischief, but beneath his obtuse good humor Flandrau covered a vigilant wariness. Soapy held all the good cards now, but if he stayed in the game some of them would come to him. Then he would show Mr. Stone whether he would have everything his own way.
The large vote which he polled augured well for the future. All this we may claim without denying the fact that it was fortunate for the party and for the country that he was not elected. There was no doubt of his sincerity or his patriotism. But he lacked self-control, wariness, patience. He was hot-headed, extreme, egotistical.
Start in June, 1852, on the last and longest Journey from Cape Town Companions Wagon-traveling Physical Divisions of Africa The Eastern, Central, and Western Zones The Kalahari Desert Its Vegetation Increasing Value of the Interior for Colonization Our Route Dutch Boers Their Habits Sterile Appearance of the District Failure of Grass Succeeded by other Plants Vines Animals The Boers as Farmers Migration of Springbucks Wariness of Animals The Orange River Territory of the Griquas and Bechuanas The Griquas The Chief Waterboer His wise and energetic Government His Fidelity Ill-considered Measures of the Colonial Government in regard to Supplies of Gunpowder Success of the Missionaries among the Griquas and Bechuanas Manifest Improvement of the native Character Dress of the Natives A full-dress Costume A Native's Description of the Natives Articles of Commerce in the Country of the Bechuanas Their Unwillingness to learn, and Readiness to criticise.
Van der School was a well-educated man, but of slow comprehension, who had imbibed a wariness in his speeches and actions, from having suffered by his collisions with his more mercurial and apt brethren who had laid the foundations of their practice in the Eastern courts, and who had sucked in shrewdness with their mothers milk.
From its greater fierceness and wariness, it holds its place in a district much longer than its more timid and better-conditioned neighbor. Mr.
I have long realized that he was only wise to maintain silence at the expense of perilous amenities, and as fully justified in those secret and solitary sorties which made bad blood in my veins. He was far cleverer than I at getting in and out; but even had I been his match for stealth and wariness, my company would have doubled every risk.
But to what purpose if he were not going to act? If he were not going to build on the ground so carefully prepared, to what end this wariness and this abstention? Within an hour the Syndic, long so wary, had worked himself into a fever and, rather than remain inactive, was ripe for any step, however venturesome, provided it led to the remedium.
Fifty yards short of the turning I stopped, and, stealing on, looked cautiously the way she had gone. I saw before me a second ride, the twin of the other, and a hundred and fifty paces down it her grey figure tripping on between the green hedges. I stood and took breath, and cursed the wood and the heat and Madame's wariness. We must have come a league, or two-thirds of a league, at least.
To claim for it the verbal accuracy and the legal wariness of a mere contract is equally at war with common sense and the facts of the case; and even were it not so, the party to a bond who should attempt to escape its ethical obligation by a legal quibble of construction would be put in Coventry by all honest men.
Something stirred in the far end of the car. A still, small noise as of something alive that moved with the utmost wariness. A heavy, breathing body crept stealthily across the intervening space; so quietly that a mouse could have made but little less noise. Then it stopped; there was not a sound inside the car except the deep, regular breathing of Truxton King.
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