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So pleasantly did the place affect Dyck's spirits that, as he sat down in the room which had often housed worse men than himself, he gave a sigh of relief. They played cards, and Dyck won. He won five times what he had lost at the club. This made him companionable. "It's a poor business-cards," he said at last. "It puts one up in the clouds and down in the ditch all at the same time.
The butcher, though a portly and a prosperous man, doesn't know what to do with himself; so anxious is he to express humility when discovered by the passing Boffins taking the air in a mutton grove. Presents are made to the Boffin servants, and bland strangers with business-cards meeting said servants in the street, offer hypothetical corruption.
Maybe you'll butter everybody's bread pretty soon, but we'll cotton-seed his salad for him from the Gulf to Canada, and that's a dead-certain thing. Cincinnati glowed and flashed with admiration. The two scoundrels exchanged business-cards, and rose. As they left the table, Cincinnati said 'But you have to have custom-house marks, don't you? How do you manage that? I did not catch the answer.
So pleasantly did the place affect Dyck's spirits that, as he sat down in the room which had often housed worse men than himself, he gave a sigh of relief. They played cards, and Dyck won. He won five times what he had lost at the club. This made him companionable. "It's a poor business-cards," he said at last. "It puts one up in the clouds and down in the ditch all at the same time.
Maybe you'll butter everybody's bread pretty soon, but we'll cotton-seed his salad for him from the Gulf to Canada, and that's a dead-certain thing. Cincinnati glowed and flashed with admiration. The two scoundrels exchanged business-cards, and rose. As they left the table, Cincinnati said 'But you have to have custom-house marks, don't you? How do you manage that? I did not catch the answer.
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