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Greedy of piastres, he coveted still more eagerly such small glittering articles as one cannot keep covered gold scarf-pins, rings, sleeve-links, or nickel cigar-lighters; and when he saw a gold chain his face would light up with a gleam of pleasure. "The following summer was the hardest time of my life. An epidemic of cholera had broken out in Lower Egypt.
All the art that Pettit had acquired was gone. A perusal of its buttery phrases would have made a cynic of a sighing chambermaid. In the morning Pettit came to my room. I read him his doom mercilessly. He laughed idiotically. "All right, Old Hoss," he said, cheerily, "make cigar-lighters of it. What's the difference? I'm going to take her to lunch at Claremont to-day."
Since percussion-guns and friction cigar-lighters came in, flint has somewhat lost its value; and Kinneo is of no practical use at present. We cannot allow inutilities in this world. Where is the Archimedes? He could make a handsome thing of it by flashing us off with a spark into a new system of things.
Underneath it was the lunch counter, where clam-fritters, the specialty of the place, could be had four afternoons in the week. Elsewhere were nickel-in-the-slot machines, cigar-lighters, a vase of wax flowers under glass, and a racing chart setting forth the day's odds, weights, and entries.
"You did a good job with Crown Diamond," he grunted approvingly. "Thanks," I returned. "I thought it wasn't bad for a stock that was not worth mentioning." "Um, yes. Decker can light his cigars with it next month." "A million dollars' worth of cigar-lighters might be called a piece of extravagance," I murmured.
Such traits are mostly the outcome of a boisterous temperament, as is additionally exemplified by the fact that if at a fair he chanced to fall in with a simpleton and to fleece him, he would then proceed to buy a quantity of the very first articles which came to hand horse-collars, cigar-lighters, dresses for his nursemaid, foals, raisins, silver ewers, lengths of holland, wheatmeal, tobacco, revolvers, dried herrings, pictures, whetstones, crockery, boots, and so forth, until every atom of his money was exhausted.
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