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He paused again beneath the shadow of the gasometer, possibly through association of ideas, because it suggested thoughts of 'Bias who had so much admired it "'Bias means well, o' course. But I don't go about, for my part, schemin' how 'Bias is to amuse his latter days. Besides, 'Bias may be mistaken in more ways than one."
"That so?" says I, unconcernedlike. "Yes," says he. "He wuz awful anxious to see you, and I said I'd send you to him if I cum acrost you." Somehow, I dropped onto it in a minnit that he wuz schemin' to git me away from Abraham Lincoln "Well," says I, "it's about ez fur for me forward to him as it is for him back here to me. I don't know as I want to see him at all.
"We can give his successor a right hearty welcome," the Virginian suggested. "That's you!" said Honey. "Schemin' mischief away ahead. You're the leadin' devil in this country, and just because yu' wear a faithful-looking face you're tryin' to fool a poor school-marm." "Yes," drawled the Southerner, "that's what I'm aiming to do."
An' th' sooner a man lear-rns, th' bether ut is fer um, that all women know more thin they let on an' they've always an ace fer a hole car-rd bekase av ut. "Fer women run men, an' men politics, an' politics armies, an' armies th' wor-rld an' at th' bottom av ut all is th' wisdom an' schemin' av women. "Phwin a man fools a woman, he's a fool fer she ain't fooled at all.
And whilst you are givin' praise to youh Makeh for creatin' such a Gyarden of Eden, don't forget to thank him on youh bended knees for not putting anything oveh yondeh in ouh home lot to tempt these house-buildin', money-makin', schemin' Yankees that are swarming again oveh the land like anotheh plague of Egyptian locus'es." "These Yankees?" queried Ardea.
"Well, my dear," said her visitor, "I admit that there are some sorts o' fair-an'-above-board schemin' which ain't dishonourable, or unworthy of a British sailor." "Very good," returned Ruth; "then listen while I reveal some of my recent scheming.
Mebbe," she continued with a little laugh, "even I'D be a little more in the style to suit Master Jack when he comes ef I had three hundred dollars' worth of convent schoolin' like Mamie Harris." "Yes, and you'd have only made yourself fair game for ev'ry schemin', lazy sport or counter-jumper along the road from this to Sacramento!" responded Hays savagely.
A big flume to the point I showed you, a big main ditch and several laterals will do the trick. I'm with you to the finish!" Sanderson smiled at the engineer's glowing enthusiasm and told him of the opposition he would meet in developing the project. "There'll be a heap of schemin', an' mebbe shootin', Williams," Sanderson told him. "Puttin' through this deal won't be any pussy-kitten affair."
At last he resumed: "Wynn and Katz chartered the Sylvia to take them down the coast. I was told that by Lopez, and I reckon he got it from Captain Hogan. Lopez I saw him no more than half an hour ago says Wynn and Katz are planning to cut loose from me, I've been a fool all along to let those two do all the schemin' and never put in my oar. But now I'm going to get busy."
At any other time the artist would have received that thrust en tierce with a riposte; at present, Eliza's facts were more interesting than her wit. "Who is the lady you are speaking of?" he asked guardedly. "Mr. Fenley's ward, Miss Sylvia Manning. They say she's rich. Pore young thing! Some schemin' man will turn her head, I'll go bail, an' all for the sake of her brass."
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