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Even still its puffs were the separated puffs of starting, that bitten-off, snorty kind, and sweat and our true natures broke freely forth. I kicked my valise, and then sat on it, dumb. Shorty yielded himself up aloud. All his humble secrets came out of him. He walked aimlessly round, lamenting. He had lost his job, and he mentioned the ranch. He had played cards, and he mentioned the man.
He lighted the cigar which Halson gave him, and, blowing the bitten-off tip towards the fire, began: "It was about that time when we first had a ten-o'clock night train from Boston to New York. Train used to start at nine, and lag along round by Springfield, and get into the old Twenty-sixth Street Station here at six in the morning, where they let you sleep as long as you liked.
Then, "Oh, I might as well tell you, Frank, and you, Pete," he said abruptly, "that I've gone over to the other side. I'm for capture, friendship by capture, marriage by capture whatever you choose to call it but capture." The other four stared at him. "What's happened to you and Ju " Honey began. But he stopped, flushing. Billy paid no attention to the bitten-off end of Honey's question.
It was so poor a place a bitten-off morsel "at the beyond end of nowhere" that when a February gale came driving down out of a steel sky and shut up the little lane road and covered the house with snow a passer-by might have mistaken it all, peeping through its icy fleece, for just a huddle of the brown bowlders so common to the country thereabouts.
The voice of the story-teller was beyond the reach of hearing; and I was falling with ever increasing rapidity through an immense void. A sound of whispering roused me. Two persons were talking under their breath close beside me. The words in the main escaped me, but I caught every now and then bitten-off phrases and half sentences, to which, however, I could attach no intelligible meaning.
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