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Updated: June 12, 2025
There, in the centre of the earth, where the Indus, Ganges, and Brahmapootra rise to run their different courses; where mankind took up their first abode, and separated to replete the world, leaving Balk, the mother of cities, to attest the great fact; where Nature, gone back to its primeval condition, and secure in its immensities, invites the sage and the exile, with promise of safety to the one and solitude to the other there I went to abide alone with God, praying, fasting, waiting for death."
"It was a fearful night to make up a train in a hurry as much as a man's life was worth to work even slow in the yard a night like that. But what limit is set to a switchman's courage I have never known, because I've never known one to balk at a yardmaster's order.
A row of eighteen barrels, with the ends knocked out, came next; then a climb up slack ropes, and over a transverse bar; and finally another balk of timber if anything less than a foot off the ground under which they had to squeeze and wriggle in the best manner possible. As a finale to our excellent programme, the most amusing and entertaining thing of all was yet to be carried out.
Champney had begun to sell off her lake shore lands so as her city relatives could build near her, Mrs. Googe must start up and balk all her plans by selling two hundred acres of old sheep pasture for the big quarry." "Humph!" It was the first sound that Octavius Buzzby had uttered since his entrance and general greeting.
A regular will drawn in favor of Madame Cardinal was not a thing to be improvised in a moment. It would take some time to acclimatize the idea in the surly and suspicious mind of the old pauper, and death, which was close at hand, might play them a trick at any moment, and balk the most careful preparations.
"Meaning if this Eugene Warringford keeps his hands off; and nothing else turns up to balk us?" Bob asked. "Yes, all of that, and more," Frank admitted. "But already I find myself wishing we had somebody along with us, like Old Hank Coombs for instance, Frank." "Well, who knows what may happen?" said the other, a little mysteriously.
"You will have to be very cautious, because if these pesky Abolitionists get an inkling of what you're doing they will balk your game double quick. And when you come to look at it, isn't it a shame to attempt to reduce that girl to slavery? She is just as white as we are, as good as any girl in the land, and better educated than thousands of white girls.
"Very well! we'll make that bargain," said Miss Benson; "and now, Ruth, I'll go and fetch you a cup of warm jelly." "Oh! indeed, Aunt Faith," said Ruth, "I am very sorry to balk you; but if you're going to treat me as an invalid, I am afraid I shall rebel."
At Orleans, in the very field as well as in the council chamber and the presence, everything was done to balk her, and to cross her plans, but in vain; she triumphed over every contrivance against her, and broke through the plots, and overcame the plotters.
I'd get her off before you could say Jack Robinson, and thank you too, if she had 50,000l. down, or 1,000l. a-year in land. Would you have a man so d d nice as to balk, when house and land is agoing a going a going! because of the incumbrance of a little learning? But, after all, I never heard that Miss Broadhurst was any thing of a learned lady."
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