Harold Edward Bindloss

Name: The Greater Power — VIII: By Combat
Author: Harold Edward Bindloss

The Greater Power — VIII: By Combat (1909)

Summary

“The Greater Power — VIII: By Combat”, published in 1909, is a work by Harold Edward Bindloss. It explores elements such as Nasmyth, Mattawa and Waynefleet.

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Harold Edward Bindloss, The Greater Power — VIII: By Combat (1909)

“ If it would be any comfort to her, I'd let Miss Waynefleet wipe her boots on me, and in one way that's about all I'm fit for. I know enough to realize that she'd never waste a moment thinking of a man like me, even if I hadn't in another way done for myself already."
"Still," Nasmyth replied quietly, "some women can forgive a good deal."
Gordon's face hardened, and he seemed to straighten himself. "Well, there are men—any way, in this country—who have too much grit in them to go crawling, broken, to any woman's feet, and to expect her to pick them up and mend them. ”

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Harold Edward Bindloss, The Greater Power — VIII: By Combat (1909)

“ As a matter of fact, it is not very frequently resorted to there; but when men do fight, their one object is to disable their opponents as soon as possible and by any means available.
Jake reeled backwards a pace or two, and the spectators said afterwards there was no reason why Nasmyth should have permitted him to recover himself, as he did. Two axes which the carpenters had been using stood against the wall, and Jake caught up the nearest of them. He swung the gleaming blade high, while the blood trickled from his cut lips and the swollen veins rose on his forehead. ”

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Harold Edward Bindloss, The Greater Power — VIII: By Combat (1909)

“ After all, kindly hearts count for much, and it was not unnatural that, like other exiles who have plodded up and down that rugged land, he should think highly of the hard-handed men and patient women who willingly offer a night's shelter and a share of their dried apples, salt pork, and grindstone bread to the penniless wanderer.
What was more to the purpose, a number of the guests at the dance had swung the axe by his side, and fought the river with him when the valley was filled with the roar of water. ”

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Harold Edward Bindloss, The Greater Power — VIII: By Combat (1909)

“ Still, for a second or two, which might have proved fatal to him, Nasmyth had only his own resources to depend upon, and he did the one thing that was possible. The Canadian axe-haft is long, and he sprang straight in at the man. As he did so, the big blade came down, and flashed by a hand's breadth behind his shoulders. He felt a burning pain on the outside of his thigh, but that did not seem to matter, and he was clutching at his opponent's throat when he was bodily flung aside. Then, as he fell against the log wall, he had a momentary glimpse of Jake bent backwards in Mattawa's arms. ”

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Harold Edward Bindloss, The Greater Power — VIII: By Combat (1909)

“ What's the matter with men like Waynefleet is that you can't teach them sense. I'd have told him what I thought of him once or twice when I saw the girl doing his work up at the ranch if I'd figured it would have made any impression."
"I expect it would have been useless," remarked Nasmyth. "After all, I'm not sure that it's exactly your business."
Gordon watched Laura Waynefleet as she swung through a waltz on the arm of a sinewy rancher, and his eyes softened curiously.
"Only on the girl's account," he admitted. "I'm sorry for her. Still, the blamed old image isn't actively unkind." ”

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Harold Edward Bindloss, The Greater Power — VIII: By Combat (1909)

“ Nasmyth got hurt?"
The axeman nodded. "Yes," he admitted, with a wink, "that's just how it strikes me, and I'm going to. The boss has no more arms and legs than he's a use for anyway."
Laura gazed at him in bewilderment, but the man's expression was perfectly grave. "Now," he added, "I guess one can talk straight sense to you, and the fact is I can't have you coming round here again. ”

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Harold Edward Bindloss, The Greater Power — VIII: By Combat (1909)

“ Is there any other girl, round this settlement who'd make up to that dam-builder as she's doing, and slip quietly into his shanty alone?"
Nasmyth never learned what grievance against Waynefleet or his daughter had prompted this virulence, nor did it appear to matter. There was just sufficient foundation for the man's insinuation to render it perilous if it was once permitted to pass unchallenged, and Nasmyth realized that any attempt to handle the affair delicately was not likely to be successful. ”

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Harold Edward Bindloss, The Greater Power — VIII: By Combat (1909)

“ There are no cramping conventions and very few shams—and the shams in those forests, it must be confessed, are as a rule imported ones. In fact, there was that evening, among all those in the pulp-mill, only one man who seemed to disassociate himself from the general good-will. That man was Waynefleet. ”

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Harold Edward Bindloss, The Greater Power — VIII: By Combat (1909)

“ They had done their work gallantly, when it seemed out of the question that they would ever receive the money he had promised them, from sheer pride in their manhood, and to keep their word, and now they danced as determinedly. ”

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