Ian Hay

Name: Paid In Full — Chapter 22
Author: Ian Hay

Paid In Full — Chapter 22 (1925)

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“Paid In Full — Chapter 22”, published in 1925, is a work by Ian Hay. It explores elements such as Uncle Tony, Denny and Mildred.

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Ian Hay, Paid In Full — Chapter 22 (1925)

“ Mildred sighed.
‘It’s terribly hard, being courageous, Uncle Tony. I suppose to a man it comes natural; but—’
‘Man? Don’t you believe it! The average man is the most pusillanimous creature alive; the average woman has seven times his pluck.’
Mildred shook her head.
‘It’s sweet of you to try and cheer me up,’ she said, ‘but I can’t believe that. Look at the things our men did in the War.’
‘Yes; and I bet most of them were in a blue funk while they were doing them. In my young days I had to do them myself, and I know.’ Sir Anthony sat down again. ”

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Ian Hay, Paid In Full — Chapter 22 (1925)

“ Most of us are arrant cowards or natural rapscallions. Such efforts as we make in the direction of courage or virtue are prompted as often as not by a childish desire to live up to a standard set for us by some one else. That’s what it comes to. Believe me, Mildred, many a man has won the Victoria Cross with his heart in his boots, simply because some fuzzy-headed little nonentity in a jazz jumper at Tooting has taken it for granted from the start that he was going to win it, and he didn’t dare go home without it. ”

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Ian Hay, Paid In Full — Chapter 22 (1925)

“ We are only gropers—sometimes merely because our eyes are shut—but the light is there all the time. Courage!’
Mildred looked up. Her face was wet—at last.
‘Bless you, dear!’ she said softly. She rose, and took the old man’s arm. ‘Shall we go into the house—and wait?’
They passed slowly through the laurels, across the lawn, and out of sight.
A moment later, a long, narrow racing punt, skilfully propelled, turned into the backwater from the river outside, and came gliding up to the little landing-stage. It contained a tall man in a dinner jacket, and a little girl in a short pink frock. ”

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Ian Hay, Paid In Full — Chapter 22 (1925)

“ Cradock,’ announced Leo reassuringly. ‘She’s on the water at present; so the risk is limited to one gentleman.’
‘And who is the poor gentleman?’ asked Mildred.
‘Captain Conway.’
‘Captain Conway?’
‘Yes.’ Leo was brimming over with information, as usual. ‘I saw them push off together from the Committee landing-stage, in his punt.’
‘Oh!’ said Mildred, in dismay.
Joan turned to her. ‘They’ll be all right, Mother,’ she said quickly.
‘But I don’t think she ought to be on the river at all, at this time of night—with anybody!’ said Mildred, with agitation in every note of her voice. ”

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Ian Hay, Paid In Full — Chapter 22 (1925)

“ Cradock!’ replied Miss Harding in a shocked voice.
‘Now,’ continued Denny, warming to his work, ‘I simply can’t express to you what a treat it has been to meet you. It is seldom in these days that one en counters a girl with so much—er—laissez faire. You are so beautifully natural—so content to be yourself, and so on. ”

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Ian Hay, Paid In Full — Chapter 22 (1925)

“ Men are just as idiotic. Miss Harding’—Denny’s voice dropped to a very creditable imitation of Uncle Tony’s most pontifical rumble—‘there are far more good people walking this earth pretending to be bad than bad people pretending to be good. There’s nothing makes a wolf—sheep—feel so safe as making a noise like a sheep—wolf! ”

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Ian Hay, Paid In Full — Chapter 22 (1925)

“ If that had not been so, the human family would not have survived for so many centuries. So long as God’s writ runs on earth, there will always be a way out, even though sometimes a miracle be required to reveal it to us. ”

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Ian Hay, Paid In Full — Chapter 22 (1925)

“ The first is that where human nature is concerned you never can foretell anything. A clever man is never infallibly clever; a bad man is never utterly vile. There is a white spot on the blackest of us, and one never knows when it will not be revealed. ”

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Ian Hay, Paid In Full — Chapter 22 (1925)

“ Uncle Tony gently released her hand, and nodded.
‘I understand,’ he said—‘so far as a man can. Is that some one talking?’
‘Yes. It sounds like Denny and Miss Harding. The backwater runs up this way, just beyond those laurels. I think they’re getting a boat out.’
Denny’s voice broke clear, close by—Denny’s voice of ceremony.
‘Take my hand, Miss Harding: it’s pretty murky here.’ There came a rustling sound, as of chiffon brushing against foliage. ‘That’s right: here we are! Now, shall we have the canoe, or the electric punt? The punt is the safest ”

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