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"She'd take her skin off her if she could, now that she's angered," said the lady's husband, who no doubt knew the lady well. "Of course she'll learn that the letter has been written, and then she'll throw it in our teeth. She wouldn't believe that it had gone astray in coming here. We should give her a sort of a whip-hand over us." So it was decided that Florence should have her letter.
"Oh, you have been all kinds of a fool, Marsh; I guess you've got on to the fact at last. And I don't wonder you are anxious to see North hang, and that you won't go near him; I'd kill him if I stood in your place. But maybe we can fix it so the law will do that job for you. It seems to have the whip-hand with him just now.
Abigail the whip-hand of husband and daughter, and she was not slow to know her advantage, using her heart in a most heartless way.
It is my turn now. I hold the whip-hand, and I should be an ass not to remember things. I shall want that entire one hundred thousand pounds from you, and fifty thousand added to it 'on account of the 'friendly interest, as you so intelligently expressed it." Thorpe's chin burrowed still deeper upon his breast. "It's an outrage," he said with feeling.
"But now his impertinence fails, his insolence over-reaches itself. Now I have the whip-hand and ... I shall use it!" Vindictiveness that could find relief only in action mastered the man. "Be good enough to take this dictation." Karslake turned to the table and opened a portfolio of illuminated Spanish leather. "Ready, sir," he said, with pencil poised.
They certainly do seem to have the whip-hand; it would be difficult to imagine a more impregnable position. "The vested rights described in the text are so fully recognized in practice that they are frequently the subject of sale or mortgage." Just like a milk-route; or like a London crossing-sweepership.
How to get round her I don't exactly know, but I daresay I shall manage it somehow. If she would only set up a love-affair I could soon get the whip-hand of her! 'Then there is the priceless butler, with whom I have already made friends. I seem to have a taste for butlers, though I've never lived with one.
You cannot deny that your marriage was a grave mistake. There was just the chance a remote one that you might have met the kind of husband to suit you: an eminently masculine type, the kind who would have kept the whip-hand over you, and regarded a wife as half-mistress, half-slave. Even then I think your conjugal happiness would have ceased the first day he lost the attraction of novelty.
I could see that Fulkerson meant to keep the whip-hand himself, and that was reassuring. And, besides, if the Reciprocity Life should happen not to want my services any longer, it wouldn't be quite like giving up a certainty; though, as a matter of business, I let Fulkerson get that impression; I felt rather sneaking to do it.
All thoughts of overtaking the horses in front fled from his mind; it was the dreaded punishment that interested him most; figuratively, he humped his back against the anticipated onslaught. Redpath felt the unmistakable sign of his horse sulking; and he promptly had recourse to the jockey's usual argument. Sitting in the stand Allis saw, with a cry of dismay, Redpath's whip-hand go up.
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