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However, I ascertained that Ransford is expected back this evening, and Bryce gave orders for his usual dinner to be ready at seven o'clock, and so " Jettison flung away the newspaper and pulled out his pipe. "Oh, I don't think they'll run away either of 'em," he remarked indifferently. "They're both too cock-sure of their own ways of looking at things."
When it lifted again the eyes were brimming with tears. "I am so glad so glad," she said simply. "Now I am strong enough to hear the rest, Lieutenant Knox. You must tell me." "There is not so much to tell, that I am cock-sure about." I began slowly. "Kirby had you securely hidden away somewhere on the second deck, while this Clark girl had been locked into a stateroom above.
He's quite rational now." There was a jaunty little strut of triumph in Wally's cock-sure manner. Mrs. He was probably trying to curry favor with his chief. The little man always had been jealous of Peter. Just now his insolent voice suggested a special cause for exultation.
As for Halstead, he was perfectly sure, cock-sure, more than twenty times, what he was going to do in life; but always in the course of a few weeks or months, he discovered he was on the wrong trail. What can be said of us who either have no vocation at all, or too many? What are we here for?
There are no words to tell you how ashamed and disgraced I feel when I realize what a crude, cock-sure blundering at a conclusion my suspicion was. Yes, I suspected you! I had almost forgotten that I was ever such a fool. Almost not quite. Sometimes when I have been alone I have remembered that folly, and poured contempt on it. I have tried to imagine what the facts were.
He had run through the gamut of many emotions and sentiments, he had joined one or two of the new schools of atheism and modernism started by certain self-opinionated young University men, and in the earlier stages of his career had in the cock-sure impulse of youth designed schemes for the regeneration of the world, till the usual difficulties presented themselves as opposed to such vast business, he had associated himself with men who followed what is called the "fleshly school" of poetry and art generally, and had evolved from his own mentality a comfortable faith of which the chief tenet was "Self for Self" a religion which lifts the mind no higher than the purely animal plane; and in its environment of physical consciousness and agreeable physical sensations, he was content to live.
Plainly for the moment he resented the advice. But the next very suddenly he smiled. "Thanks! Don't trouble! I can hold my own and a bit over. There's no great difficulty in downing a drunken brute like that." "Don't you be too cock-sure!" the farmer warned him. "He's a heavy weight, and he's licked bigger men than you when he's been in just the state he's in now."
Suddenly The Seraph spoke in that cock-sure way of his. "There's a piwate at Peggs." Mrs. Handsomebody looked at him sharply. "What's that?" she demanded. At the same instant Angel and I kicked him under cover of the table. "What did you say?" repeated Mrs. Handsomebody sternly. "Funny ole gennelman at the Cwibbage Peggs," replied The Seraph with his mouth full. Mrs.
"No one; but unhappily every one is cock-sure of his opinion till he changes it and then he is as sure as before till he changes it again!" "Opinion is not sight, your father says," answered Molly; and again a little pause followed. "Well, but, Molly," resumed Walter, "how is that precious thing, leisure for thought, to be come by? Write reviews I will not! Write a history, I can not.
The stolid potentate turned back wondering, and did not know that what he felt stirring the dried veins within him was charm. "Why, sure," he answered slowly, astonished at his own words, "I'll help you if I can. Glad t' help anybody." There was a cock-sure assistant in the back of the dirty sanctum, and to him the friend of mankind applied. "Halarkenden Robert," the assistant snapped out.
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