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"A few dollars at the right time would a-saved hundreds on that roof," Billy commented. "Well, anyway, I won't be payin' for any improvements when I buy. An I'll tell you another thing. This ranch is full of water, and if Glen Ellen ever grows they'll have to come to see me for their water supply." Billy knew the ranch thoroughly, and took short-cuts through the woods by way of cattle paths.
"On horses, running swiftly," gibbered Iki. "Ten minutes, maybe perhaps twenty or thirty. Who can tell the time when " "Why didn't we meet them?" asked Steve of Terry. "If they are really headed for Red Creek?" "They are taking all of the short-cuts there are," she answered promptly.
So alluring a gospel is sure to have its own border-land prophets and one only has to study the advertisements in the more generally read magazines to see to what an extent all sorts of short-cuts to success of every sort are being offered, and how generally all these advertisements lock up upon two or three principles which revolve around self-assertion as a center and getting-on as a creed.
These steps, however, aim not at instituting a new social order, but at removing certain demonstrated causes of social maladjustment which exist in present society; and as in the solution of special social problems we have seen reason to reject "short-cuts" and "cure-alls," so in a scientific reconstruction of human society we have good reason to reject the social revolution which the followers of Marx advocate, and to offer as a substitute in its stead some social reforms which will make more nearly possible a normal social life.
"I don't see how it would change anything," he remarked, "beyond switching the stealing from one set of hands to another." I put on a face of concern. "What? You don't believe in our patent American short-cuts?" "Short-cuts?" "Certainly. Short-cuts to universal happiness, universal honesty, universal everything.
"An' ye can't tell nuthin'," his mother retorted. "That's why ye don't like short-cuts." "I believe you sent for me, Mrs. Dempster," Douglas remarked. "I was sorry I could not come sooner." "Oh, there was no special hurry. A day or two doesn't make much difference. But I thought if ye brought ye'r fiddle an' played a little it might cheer the poor lassie up a bit." "How is she?"
Just because the demands of religion and morality are so burdensome to men, they will ever seek short-cuts to salvation; and the intercession of presumably corruptible courtiers will be secured to win the favour, or avert the displeasure, of the rigorously incorruptible and inexorable King, who is "no respecter of persons."
He thought of Madame de Vionnet to-night as showy and uncovered, though he felt the formula rough, because, thanks to one of the short-cuts of genius she had taken all his categories by surprise.
These, according to the Portuguese traders, who have their own plans of the river, extend some seventy miles south to Ambrizette: slavers keep all such details very close, and doubtless for good reasons "short-cuts" greatly facilitate shipping negroes.
Mingott had always professed a great admiration for Julius Beaufort, and there was a kind of kinship in their cool domineering way and their short-cuts through the conventions. Lemuel Struthers, the widow of Struthers's Shoe-polish, who had returned the previous year from a long initiatory sojourn in Europe to lay siege to the tight little citadel of New York.
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