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You take a genuwine, honest-to-God homo Americanibus and there ain't anything he's afraid to tackle. Snap and speed are his middle name! He'll put her across if he has to ride from hell to breakfast, and believe me, I'm mighty good and sorry for the boob that's so unlucky as to get in his way, because that poor slob is going to wonder where he was at when Old Mr. Cyclone hit town!
"Can't you trust me, Marylin, for a day or two, until it goes through? Sometimes just talking about it is enough to put the jinx on a good thing." "You mean " "I mean I'm going to have money in my pockets." "What kind of money?" "Real money." "Honest money?" "Honest-to-God money. And I'm going to dike you out. That's my idea. Pink! That's the color for you.
But, after a momentary silence, he turned once more in his saddle. "Say, mad'mo'selle," he said, "this here De Launay, now; he's sure enough your husband?" "Of course." "But he ain't noways a regular, honest-to-God husband, is he?" "We are married," said Solange. "Is that not enough?" "I reckon so. Still, there's Dave and me we would sure admire to know how this feller stands with you."
I stop at Topeka and visit Dad Rother ... a columnist on a newspaper there, of more than local fame ... an obviously honest-to-God bachelor ... he is afflicted with dandruff and his hair is almost gone. He shows me photographs of Mackworth and of Uncle Bill Struthers, each autographed with accompanying homely sentiment.
"That little director up on the platform that yells so?" This unspeakable person to be actually the husband of the wonder-woman, the man he had supposed she must find intolerable even as a director. It was unthinkable, more horrible, somehow, than her employment of a double. In time he might have forgiven that but this! "Sure, that's her honest-to-God husband.
"That's the thanks a fellow gets for letting a straight word like 'marry' slip between his teeth; that's the thanks a fellow gets for honest-to-God intentions of trying to get his girl out of a shirt factory and dike her out in " "But, Getaway, if I was only sure it's all straight!" "Well, if that's all you think of me " "All your big-gun talk about the ring. Of course I I'd like it.
"My Gawd, Ma, can't you see it's been dead a week?" "You're a liar, it ain't!" I cried. And I began to sob because Aunt Millie was trying to push me back into ignominy as I stood at the very threshold of glory. "Honest-to-God, it's fresh Granma!" I gulped, "didn't I just kill it with the pitchfork?"
She didn't care anything about him and suddenly that struck him unpleasantly, instead of being a relief, as it consistently should have been. "I wish you'd adopt me, just for to-night, and go;" he said, and his eyes backed the wish. "You see," he added artfully, "it's a sin to waste all that good music a real, honest-to-God stringed orchestra from Great Falls, and "
At the Sig Kappas I met Black Jim, the first one, at the door. He shook hands shyly, laughingly. "You sure fetched that rube a wallop ... he let one croak out of him and flopped flat ... it would have made a good comic picture." "Lunch is ready, boys!" I was made into a sort of hero "a real, honest-to-God guy." "You'll have to come to some of our frat jamborees ... Jack'll bring you up."
"Fat chance," he exploded as soon as he got within hearing. "Snow in those clouds tons of it. H'm! And wind. Wow! We're in for an honest-to-God blizzard, sure as you're a foot high." Swiftwater was worried. He would have liked to turn and run for it. But the last roadhouse was twenty-seven miles back. If the blizzard came howling down the slope they would have a sweet time of it reaching safety.
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