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Danbury, ignoring the interruption, blandly continued: "And you were all picked out as men who wouldn't balk at a bit of a mix-up. But you weren't told what it is all about. "Well, then, this is the game: down there in Carlina where we are going there is a one-horse republic where they used to have a dinky little kingdom. A republic is all right when it's an honest republic, but this one isn't.
"Is it surely this is not safe, uncle Phaeton?" ventured Bruno, as another retrograde gust of air smote their apparently frail conveyance with sudden force. "Let's call it a day's work, and knock off," chimed in Waldo. "If the blamed thing should take a notion to balk, and rear back on its haunches, where'd we come out at?" Professor Featherwit made an impatient gesture by way of answer.
His belief is an artifice and a sham, and he cannot impose upon us with his pretense. But once we have accepted the artist's postulates, then we are prepared to follow him in his conclusions. In the Homeric world, we shall not balk at the intercourse between gods and men; in mediaeval painting and drama, we shall accept miracle; in Alice in Wonderland, we shall accept any dream-like enchantment.
Dear Avice, you know, is really quite as impulsive as the steel bridge our train has just rattled over. Sincerely, From Miss Avice Milbrey to Mrs. Cornelia Van Geist, New York. Muetterchen, dearest, I feel like that green hunter you had to sell last spring the one that would go at a fence with the most perfect display of serious intentions, and then balk and bolt when it came to jumping.
If the victim does not balk at the first shock and surprise, the game is won; for long experience has made him confident of being able to make the counterfeit look like the real; and it requires, as a general rule, little argument to make us look at our faults in their best light.
They were delayed some little time, changing to their swimming horses. It was nearly an hour before the herd came up, the others opening out, so as to give us a clear field, in case of a mill or balk. I never had to give an order; my boys knew just what to do. Why, there's men in this outfit right now that couldn't have greased my wagon that year.
The first woman I was in love with myself was forty; and as jealous as if she had been fifteen. It runs in the family. If this lad chooses to take out an elderly princess to Virginia, we must not balk him." "'Twere a consummation devoutly to be wished!" cries the chaplain.
Baruch, simple, trustful outside of Wall Street, incapable of concealment, outside of Wall Street of that which art has taught the rest of us to conceal. His humility makes him wonder; his naivete makes him talk quite frankly, unrestrained by the conventions that balk others. After all, is not wondering at yourself a sign of humility?
Mother, I am coming with you for a friendly word before we part, though' he went on, laughing, as the two walked away together, 'it was a scurvy trick of you to balk one of The Nation of the exquisite pleasure of seeing those heathen dogs scrambling in the gutter for his bounty. Hypatia went on to the Museum, utterly bewildered by this strange meeting, and its still stranger end.
What have I done unto thee that thou hast smitten me?" To his amazement the prophet was able to understand the ass quite well. This dumb brute made its meaning plain to a learned man. It was an intolerable outrage that an ass should lecture a doctor, and balk him in his designs. Luther is that ass.
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