Harold Edward Bindloss

Name: The Greater Power — XV: Martial's Misadventure
Author: Harold Edward Bindloss

The Greater Power — XV: Martial's Misadventure (1909)

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“The Greater Power — XV: Martial's Misadventure”, published in 1909, is a work by Harold Edward Bindloss. It explores elements such as Nasmyth, Acton and Martial.

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Harold Edward Bindloss, The Greater Power — XV: Martial's Misadventure (1909)

“ Martial was nearly a dozen yards astern when his head came out again, and he slid away with the tide, with his white arm swinging furiously. George sat down upon the deck, and expressed his satisfaction by drumming his feet upon the planking while he laughed.
"He's off," he said. "Might have a high-power engine inside of him. Guess he's going to scare those schooner men 'most out of their lives. It's quite likely they won't keep anchor watch when they're lying snug in a place of this kind."
Nasmyth managed to control his laughter, and went down to divest himself of his draperies. ”

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Harold Edward Bindloss, The Greater Power — XV: Martial's Misadventure (1909)

“ This was rather too pointed a question for Nasmyth to answer, but, so far as it went, he could readily have agreed with the skipper. As a matter of fact it suggested the query why he should object to Miss Hamilton throwing herself away.
"Well," he observed, "I'm not quite sure that it's any concern of mine."
George's grin was expressive of good-natured toleration. "Oh!" he replied, "I guess that's plain enough for me. You're not going to talk about the boss's friends. Still, one man's as good as another in this country, and, if I wasn't way better than Martial, I'd drown myself. ”

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Harold Edward Bindloss, The Greater Power — XV: Martial's Misadventure (1909)

“ The fact that his hostess had somewhat cleverly contrived to leave him behind had its significance, since it seemed to indicate that she recognized that Miss Hamilton regarded him with a certain amount of favour.
"Well," said George reflectively, "the boss is quite smart, too! Mrs. Acton crowded you out of the gig. The boss says nothing, but he knocks off that blame Martial. That makes the thing even, and, unless he does it, none of them gets any fish. Now, it kind of seems to me that for a girl like Miss Hamilton to look at a man like Martial is a throwing of herself away. ”

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Harold Edward Bindloss, The Greater Power — XV: Martial's Misadventure (1909)

“ George sat upon the skylights sucking at his pipe, and it presently became evident that his thoughts and Nasmyth's were very much alike. There was nobody else on board, for the man who fired and drove the engines was ashore.
"I guess you can catch trout?" the skipper remarked.
"Oh yes," answered Nasmyth indifferently. "As a matter of fact, I've had to, when there was very little else to eat."
George, who was big and lank, and truculent in appearance, nodded.
"Juss so!" he rejoined. "You've been up against it in the Bush. ”

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Harold Edward Bindloss, The Greater Power — XV: Martial's Misadventure (1909)

“ It's a sure thing that no man with a conscience wants to get into the land agency business. It's an institution for selling greensuckers ranching land that's rock and gravel and virgin forest. Besides, I heard the blame insect telling Miss Hamilton that nobody not raised in the hog-pen could drink my coffee."
It seemed to Nasmyth that there was a little reason in the skipper's observations, though he thought that Martial's strictures upon the coffee accounted for most of them. ”

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Harold Edward Bindloss, The Greater Power — XV: Martial's Misadventure (1909)

“ There was only the soft lap of the water along the steamer's side and the splash of the little swell upon the beach to break the stillness, for the sea was smooth as oil.
The Tillicum would not have compared favourably with an English steam-yacht. She had been built for the useful purpose of towing saw-logs, and was sold cheap when, as the mill she kept supplied grew larger, she proved too small for it. ”

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Harold Edward Bindloss, The Greater Power — XV: Martial's Misadventure (1909)

“ A city man takes holds of things as if they were going to hurt him. That's kind of why I froze on to you."
Nasmyth took this as a compliment, and smiled his acknowledgment, for George was a privileged person, and most of his r0ecent companions held democratic views. He, however, said nothing, and George went on again.
"Mrs. Acton's a mighty smart woman, but she plays some fool tricks," he commented. "Where's the blame use in taking a boatload of folks after trout when none of them but the boss knows how to fish?" ”

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Harold Edward Bindloss, The Greater Power — XV: Martial's Misadventure (1909)

“ That's the kind of pernicious insect a decent man has no use for. What's he come on board for with three bags ram full of clothes, when many a better man humps his outfit up and down the Bush in an old blanket same as you have done? ”

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