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They stared from these papers to Bert's white face and blazing eyes, and back to the papers on the table. Nobody moved. Then the man with the flat voice spoke. "Irony!" he said, with a note of satisfaction. "Real rightdown Irony! When it's too late to think of making 'em any more!"
He was real rightdown sorry for me, I could tell, though Jim and I used to laugh at him, and call him a regular old crawler of a milker's calf in the old days. The tears came into his eyes reg'lar like a woman as he gave my hand a squeeze and turned his head away. We was little chaps together, you know. A man always feels that, you know.
Don't you perceive that same?" Well, of all the fools! My head spun with the thought; not at first the thought of fear, mind you, though fear followed right enough, but just with the irony of it all, and the rightdown lunacy which sent me into this trap as a fly goes into a spider's web. And this man would suck me dry; I hadn't a doubt of it; a word might cost me my life.
If you think you're like to slip your Cable and would like to say something, we've got a Padre on board out of the last Prize, and he shall come and do the Right Thing for you. You don't know anything about his lingo; but what odds is that? Spanish, or Thieves' Latin, or rightdown Cockney, it's all one when the word's given to pipe all hands."
"You know I'm glad without me telling you," she answered. "I'm RIGHTDOWN glad." And it was at this moment that Mrs. Bowse came into the room. "It's too bad it's happened just now," she said, much flustered. "That's the way with things. The stew'll spoil, but he says it's real important." Tembarom caught at both her hands and shook them. "I've got it, Mrs. Bowse. Here's your society reporter!
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