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I will go to America, where all men are equal and all have an equal chance; I will live or die, sink or swim, win or lose as just a man that alone, and not a single helping gaud or fiction back of it." "Hear, hear!" The two men looked each other steadily in the eye a moment or two, then the elder one added, musingly, "Ab-so-lutely cra-zy-ab-solutely!"
He really must look over that other bunch of horses, and ride the west fence. Ab-so-lutely without fail, that must be done. Mary V, watching from that convenient ridge which commanded the Sinkhole mail box and the faint trail leading from it to the camp, saw the home-coming stage stop there.
I'd ruther help you fly your plane than fly one of my own. I'd run amuck agin if I owned anything I could raise money on. "If you think I tried to do you dirt, back there in the desert, bo, you're wrong. Ab-so-lutely. I thought you was fixing to double-cross me, and git away with the plane and leave me there. It got my goat I'll say it did that desert stuff.
She remembered all too keenly herself ... the instant of relaxed blackness that followed on the sound of Richard King's hearty voice "Why, the boy's all right! Ab-so-lutely all right! Isn't he, Madeline? Steady as a clock.
"What do chaps feel like, I wonder," said Rokeby, "when the day of judgment is so near?" "I shan't tell you, you damned scoffer!" "Well, well," said Rokeby, "I've seen lots of nice fellows go under this same way. It always makes me very sorry. I do all I can in the way of preventive measures, but it's never any good, and there's no cure. Ab-so-lutely none.
"It was a bold business, an' what could you expect?" "Oh, I don't know. I can't seem to understand. All this trouble is coming so suddenly. Father, are you sure you heard Roger refuse to aid that man Eagen in some shady scheme last night?" "Ab-so-lutely," declared Mallory. "I've been wondering, daughter, if he didn't turn Eagen down because he had this scheme of his own."
Yet there was a rasp to the great man's impatience that irritated him. "I've been trying to tell you all the evening that I'm only the hired man in this business, Mr. Falkland. I can't compel the attendance of the other parties." "Well, it's damned badly managed, as far as we've gone," was the ungracious comment. "You say the judge refuses to confer with me?" "Ab-so-lutely."
"But you don't mean to say this is your first venture at turkey raising?" he demands. "Ab-so-lutely," says I. "Strordinary!" says Basil. At the end of the turkey run though I finds Joe starin' through the wire with a panicky look on his face. "Well, Joe," says I, "anything wrong with the flock?" "I dunno," says he. "Maybe da go bughouse, maybe da got jag on. See!"
And then she heard Richard King saying in a voice very like his brother's, a little like Jimsy's: "Why, the boy's all right! Ab-so-lutely all right! Isn't he, Madeline? Steady as a clock. That college nonsense " And then Honor found herself leaning back in a marvelously comfortable chair by an open window and Mr. King was fanning her slowly and strongly and Mrs.
"Sir! if I di'n' truzt you, ab-so-lutely, you shoul'n' touch that with a finger." "Well, then, I say yes, she's handsome, trusting you not to gild my plain words with your imagination.
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