slack in duty or service

At Hokow we stopped to rest with the intention of leaving the injured man in lodgings with enough money to speed his recovery and see him home. The town was tiny but to sleep behind solid walls and dine on roasted meat was a luxury after the open hills.

The general behavior of lattice reduction algorithms is far from being well understood. […] We explain how a mixed methodology has already proved fruitful for small dimensions p, corresponding to the variety of Euclidean algorithms (p = 1) and to the Gauss algorithm (p = 2).

Then the idea returned to her that, after all, her son might not be innocent in the Ellen matter—and this was so interesting that she felt bound to get as near the truth as she could.