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"'I ain't aimin' to fight you today, Lawler, he says, his face bloomin' like a cactus. "Lawler laughs, an' gives Shorty his gun back. Shorty grins like a tiger. 'Mebbe Singleton wouldn't mind acceptin' your kind offer, Boss? he says. "But Singleton don't break his neck reachin' for his gun, neither. He stands there, lookin' like a calf that's lost its mother.
"But wasn't it a bit scurvy trick ye played me, acceptin' my money an' usin' it to double-cross me?" "Business, my dear man! Merely business! I saw my chance, and I took it, that's all. Ten thousand a year, and a ten percent interest in a paper mill isn't so poor and I'm not yet thirty. It takes brains to make money, and you can bet I'll make my money before my brain begins to slip cogs.
"A' thocht for aboot three seconds he was acceptin' the challenge o' the Glasca' Ganymede A'm no' so sure o' Ganymede; A' got him oot of the sairculatin' library an' he was verra dull except the bit wheer he went oop in the air on the back of an eagle an' dropped his whustle. But MacMuller wasn't so full o' ficht as a' that." He walked away, but stopped and came back. "A'm a Wee Kirker," he said.
Drysdale his account, which he wasna noo for acceptin sayin that, if we had the sma'est occasion for the money, to use it freely, without regardin them and havin thanked him for his advice as to counteracting the evil report that had gane abroad respectin us, I hurried awa to put it in execution; and thinkin it very hard to be subjected to a' this trouble sae innocently, and to hae, at ane and the same time, a pair o' such calamities sae oddly thrust upon me, as my ain death, and the bankruptcy o' my faither.
She reminded him 'at she had written to him before acceptin' Jack, an' that now if he was still sure he wanted her, she would accept him; but she could never live near the Creole Belle. She closed with love, an' signed herself Barbara. I kept on lookin' at the page a long time after I had read it.
'Tenshin, Jocko!" cried he, patting his shoulder, to which his friend the monkey at once jumped from the tree; and then, turning to my sister, he said, with a roguish look in his black eyes, "Oi've brought ye a little prisint, Miss Jenny, ez Oi hopes ez how ye'll be afther acceptin'." Jenny smiled. "What," said she "a monkey?"
" But you never know," thought experienced Bingo sagely, even as, in his heavy fashion, he went pounding on: "The Chief's continuin' the Work of Pacification, and acceptin' the surrender of arms any date of manufacture you like between the chassepot of 1870 and the leather-breeched firelock of Oliver Cromwell's time.
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