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A white laundress wore earrings. She said one day to the old gin: 'Why you have hole made in your nose and put that bone there? No good that. White women don't do that. The black woman looked the laundress up and down, and finally anchored her eyes on the earrings. 'Why you make hole in your ears? No good that. Black gin no do that, pull 'em down your ears like dogs.
They sat in the hut, chatting, laughing, and discussing palm wine by the gallon, till they had their wicked will in the shape of a bottle of gin; after this, they departed with many low conges. It was a study to see Gidi Mavunga amidst the vassals and serfs of his own village.
She turned her wan and wretched face round when she heard Hester approaching. "Good-night, Hetty Wright, and may the Virgin bless you!" she called out. "Good-night, Mrs. Flannigan why, how white and starved you look! Here's twopence; go in and get a drop of gin." Hester dropped the coins into the old dame's hand, and hurried quickly through the damp streets.
"But you find difficulty in suggesting such a thought convincingly? That is because I have not conceivably made any such mistake. A Harvey must discover the theory of the circulation of the blood; it is the business of lesser men to apply the discovery to practical ends. It takes a Whitney to invent the cotton gin, but the dullest negro roustabout can operate it.
"They ain't, but enough hev kem in sence the polls closed ter gin him a thumpin' majority. He's safe." The tense ring of triumph was in his voice. The scene was swimming before her; she was dazed by the sudden alternations of hope and despair, of decision and counter-decision, by the seeming instability of all this.
'Shall we open it at once? enquired the artist, who had grown decidedly cheerful under the combined effects of company and gin; and without waiting for a reply, he began to strip as if for a prize-fight, tossed his clerical collar in the wastepaper basket, hung his clerical coat upon a nail, and with a chisel in one hand and a hammer in the other, struck the first blow of the evening.
This unwelcome idea did not, however, at all lessen the rapidity with which I hastened towards the memorable gin shop, where I had whilom met Mr.
Robert Carter, in his first term as proprietary agent, made numerous grants to the Irish and Hugenots and they took a substantial number of these convicts who were gin fiends, beggars, murderers and arsonists. These cheaper servants after serving seven years became parasitic wanderers, creating hotbeds of undisciplined passion wherever they went.
"If our word's good enough, we'll take every wager," he shouted; and the audacity pleased the crowd. The constable, the proprietor of the Rest, and Marmot, mounted guard over the stakes, placed for convenience in two empty gin cases one for the solid gold of the miners, and the other for the gold, notes, and paper of the trio.
"That doesn't make any difference," he replied, "'while there is life, there is hope' and it's a sure thing that nobody ever accomplished anything worth while by accepting the failures of others as proof that the thing couldn't be done. Whitney would never have invented the cotton gin if he had accepted the failures of others as final.
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