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"Quite delicately, however," he goes on. "The Lieutenant seems to have something on his mind something heavy. I infer that he wishes to do a little inspecting." "Oh!" says I. You see, along late in the summer, one of our Wall Street men had copped out a whalin' big shell-case contract for us, gayly ignorin' the fact that this was clean out of our line.
"Verona," she goes on, ignorin' me, "you are certain it is quite all right, are you?" "Oh, yes," says Vee. "It's one we had put in only last week. Runs by electricity, or some thing. Anyway, the plumber explained to Torchy just how it works. He knows all about it, don't you, Torchy?" "Uh-huh," says I, careless. I did, too.
Once when he had dropped behind a little farther than usual, he leaned over and whispered into Purgatory's ear: "She's sure ignorin' us, ain't she, you black son-of-a-gun! She ain't looked back here more'n three times in the last five minutes!" And yet Harlan's jocular mood did not endure long.
"Gordon?" says he, shruggin' his shoulders and smilin' cynical. "Really, I can't conceive just why he should remember me. True, during our brief acquaintance, he showed a most active dislike for me; but I assure you it was not mutual. A man of Gordon's type Bah! One simply ignores them, you know." "You don't say!" says I. "Now I had an idea that wa'n't so dead easy ignorin' Pyramid."
"'Where I comes from, which is Texas, says the Lizard, ignorin' of Cherokee's manner, the same bein' some insultin', `they teaches the babies two things,-never eat your own beef, an' never let no kyard- thief down you: "'Which is highly thrillin', says Cherokee, 'as reminiscences of your yooth, but where does you-all get action on 'em in Arizona?
Josiah sez snappishly, "What you mean by bringin' that old chestnut up I cant see." "Well," sez I, "I shan't sew the moral on any tighter." But he kep' on ignorin' my sarcastick allusion. "To keep up the train of almost miraclous incidents marchin' along through the past connecting the St.
As we passed one of the landin' places on the staircase where some chairs wuz placed, I see the ancient dame settin' and sarahuptishously rubbin' her ankle jints. She straightened up and looked kinder coquetishly at my pardner, but he swep' by her as if she wuz so much dirt under his feet. Truly he seemed to be carryin' out his plan of ignorin' my sect and passin' 'em by scornfully.
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