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Who is the best man," he asked, with honest frankness, "you, or some high-steppin' snob whose daddy has left him the means to be a loafer all his days? And who would the prettiest girl in Buffland prefer, you or the loafer? And you intend to let Mr. Loafer have it all his own way?" "No, I don't!" Sam roared, like a baited bull. "Ef any man crosses my path, he can find out which is the best man."
Indeed, there were few women in the tenements, for all their outcry, who did not know how quick had been her hand to help when illness came, or the landlord threatened the sidewalk, or the undertaker insisted on his money in advance. "It's not Tom Grogan that's crooked," Mrs. Todd continued, "an' ye all know it. It's that loafer, Dennis Quigg, and that old sneak, Crimmins.
"Oh, to hell with your old woman!" shouted the gambler furiously. "Do you mean that you were at Judge Langham's to-night?" "Yes, boss; he sent for me, see? I had to go!" explained Montgomery. "Why did you go there without letting me know, you drunken loafer?" stormed Gilmore. He took the handy-man by the arm and pushed him into a chair, then he stood above him, black-browed and menacing.
It was suspiciously strange that, after Miss Bliss's mention of a loafer who had given information a loafer toasted by Krauss an individual answering the description had so promptly disappeared. Well now, Sophy or no Sophy, FitzGerald must be told! Shafto found his opportunity the following night, when he and the police officer had the veranda to themselves.
She steamed at once, and when I had put a new heater in, there was nothing more to be done to her, except to wash her down, a thing no self-respecting mechanic will ever do if he can get another to take the job on for him. So I hired a loafer who was hanging about the mews, and set him to the work while I read the papers and smoked a cigarette.
You'll be hung yet, you loafer. A good-for-nothing bum, that's what. Get out o' here!" "I'm gettin'," said Buzz. He took his hat off the hook and wiped it carefully with the lower side of his sleeve, round and round. He placed it on his head, jauntily.
With genuine Irish impulse, Dennis, rising hurriedly, proceeded to the bench occupied by the disturbed lady, and, with a bow that was not deficient in grace and evident good intention, said: "Excuse me, but say the wurrd, madam, and I'll see that you are troubled no more with that loafer."
"There, find a tailor outside somewhere to sew them on. You are now a non-commissioned officer on my staff, and I expect you to do all you can to maintain its character and dignity." Shorty's face flushed with pride as he saluted, and thought, without saying: "You jest bet I will. Any loafer that don't pay proper respect to this here staff'll git his blamed neck broke."
Richardson steadily grew in the esteem of his men. The story had got noised about that while we lay in camp just before Fair Oaks, a loafer about his headquarters addressed insulting language to a woman who was employed in doing certain domestic work and who followed up the army. The general heard the vile talk of the fellow from his tent.
"It ain't fer sech as me to say when there's courtin' and when there ain't, after havin' gone well nigh onto five year with a country loafer what ain't never said nothin'." She stalked into the house, closed the door, and noisily bolted it. Joe stood there for a moment, as one struck dumb, then gave a long, low whistle of astonishment and walked slowly down the hill. X. Love Letters "A week!"
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