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"But why didn't you think so before," asked Mary, looking archly into the face of her aunt. "Why because-because " "O, I can tell you, so you needn't search all over the world for a reason. It was because the high crowns were fashionable. Come out plain and aboveboard and say so." "Indeed, I won't say any such thing." "Then what was the reason?"
Now at least we're all open and aboveboard; all we've got to do is quietly set the wheels in motion!" "Well, I'll tell you what must be the first step, Magsie," Warren said after thought; "I'm going home now to see Rachael. I'll talk the whole thing over with her. Then I'll come to see you." "Positively?" asked Magsie. "Positively."
It's new close to nature. What he wants he takes if he's strong enough. I'm elemental. "You wanted her and you took her. Now you want me and I suppose you'll take me too." Her scornful words had the sting of a whiplash. "I've lived as all men live who have red blood in them. This woman is an incident. I've been aboveboard. She can't say I ever promised more than I've given.
He is shrewd. He understands his business. He knows the ins and outs. He can manage the sharpers. He can turn an honest penny, and a good many of them. He need not refuse to do himself a good turn with his left hand, while he is doing his country a good turn with his right. It is all fair and aboveboard. He does the business assigned him, and does it well.
Not now. Later on. His eye caught Agravaine's, and he smiled that weak, cunning smile of his. And for the first time the knight was conscious of a curious feeling that all was not square and aboveboard in this castle.
"Nothing," I replied; "I am as comfortable as can be; when will the brig sail?" "She will be under weigh in less than half an hour," he answered. "I came to let you know, and for fear you should be uneasy at my absence. I shall not have a chance of coming down again for some time perhaps for three or four days more. All is going on right aboveboard.
It seemed so ridiculous that the three of us couldn't sit there and unbosom our hearts of what was hidden away in them, that we couldn't be open and honest and aboveboard and say just what we felt and thought, that we couldn't quietly talk things out to an end and find where each and all of us stood. But men and women are not made that way.
"It was all straight and aboveboard, and he knew perfectly well what he was about. Jim would swear to it." Lorelei lifted a tragic, tear-stained face. "I ought to be hanged," she said. Jim laughed with relief. "There's gratitude for you! If I had your share of the Wharton coin I'd let 'em hang ME for a while." "There, there!" Mrs. Knight chided her daughter.
"What gits me wuss 'n them I.W.W.'s is the skunks thet give Uncle Sam the double-cross," said Andy, with dark face. "I'll stand fer any man an' respect him if he's aboveboard an' makes his fight in the open. But them coyotes thet live off the land an' pretend to be American when they ain't they make me pisen mad." "I heerd the vigilantes has marked men like thet," observed Bill.
Señora Cervera still retained her uptown house, and frequently received Venner as a visitor; but never a sign of the diamond gang, or of any stranger, could the detectives discover, in or about her place. Rufus Venner was attending to his business as usual, and appeared all aboveboard.
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