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The house actually lost money on the bill. I have long since learned that the only way to meet a bluffer is with a bluff. This man had laid out a line of goods which he fully intended, I know now, to buy from me at the prices which I had first asked him for them, but he thought he would buy them cheaper from me if he could.
Every prisoner in Germany to-day knows from painful experience that the Teuton's word counts for nothing; it is not worth the breath expended upon its utterance, or the paper upon which it is written. The German is an unprincipled liar and an unmitigated bluffer, in which art, if such it may be called, he has become a super-master.
By way of a suitable return for this, Devore spent many a spare moment thinking up grotesque yet wickedly appropriate nicknames for the major. He called him Old First and Second Manassas and Old Hardee's Tactics and Old Valley of Virginia. He called him an old bluffer too. He was wrong there, though, certainly.
And he gleefully spread down his cards. "I caught the pink one." "Had mine all the time!" triumphed Colonel Bouncer, throwing down his hand and putting both big arms round the pot. "Four elevens!" And chuckling near to the apoplexy line he scraped the chips home, while Washer inspected his excellent collection of jacks. "Now brag, you old bluffer!"
I am not pleased to wait long in the sun." "If we obey the command do we not merit Your Honor's favor?" That was a very shrewd question. A weak man with a weak hand would have walked into that trap by betraying the spirit of compromise. On the other hand an ordinary bluffer would have blundered by overdoing the high hand. "Consider what is known of me," Grim answered.
Hollis grinned. "That's the stuff!" he sympathized. "I rather think that Dunlavey is something of a bluffer that folks in this country have allowed him to have his own way too much." She shook her head doubtfully. "I don't know about that," she returned. Then she smiled. "You are the new owner of the Circle Bar, aren't you?" Hollis startled, looking at her with a surprised smile.
Had Wright's incomprehensible mention of Diane Sampson been an instinct of love of jealousy? Verily, it had pierced into the depths of the Ranger, probably as no other thrust could have. "Diane Sampson wouldn't stoop to know a dirty blood-tracker like you," said Wright hotly. His was not a deliberate intention to rouse Steele; the man was simply rancorous. "I'll call you right, you cheap bluffer!
"You wish I were an embroidering young lady, do you? Aw, where would you be, if you didn't have me to devil the life out of you? Well, why don't you take a chunk out of me, then? Don't be an old bluffer, Blue. If you want to eat me, why, go to it; only you don't. You're just a-bluffing. You like to be tousled and you know it; else why do you tag me all over the place when I don't want you? Huh?
It won't be lost time at all; it'll be time gained. And when you do get back on your legs no, don't ask me when that'll be, I can't tell nor any other fellow but when you do get back you'll make things fly as they never did before and that's going some." "You are a great bluffer, but I admit that I like the sound of it," was King's parting speech as he watched Burns depart.
"You can handle some men like that," said a hat man friend who sat with us, but I struck one old bluffer out in South Dakota once that wouldn't stand for any smoothing over. He was the most disagreeable white man to do business with I ever saw. He was all right to talk fishing and politics with, and was a good entertainer.
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