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But he was not a "quitter," which word, though objectionable as slang, is most satisfactorily descriptive. "I'll help!" the young Spaniard cried, as he followed Blake and Joe down to where the cameras and films were kept. On came the rush of water, released by the accidental opening of the upper lock gates before the lower ones were closed.
She had capitalized her income and monthly bonus, and swelled the amount by enormous interest, due to Crevel's liberality in allowing his "little Duchess" to invest her money in partnership with him in his financial operations. Crevel had taught Valerie the slang and the procedure of the money market, and, like every Parisian woman, she had soon outstripped her master.
Little cared she whether the piazza gossips The Hammer and Anvil Club, in local slang divined the quarrel or not. The girl felt herself immeasurably indifferent to such pettinesses as prying small talk and innuendo. Let people know, or not, as might be, she cared not a whit. Her business was her own. No wagging of tongues could one hair's breadth disturb that splendid calm of hers.
"Hasn't the brain a tendency to overshadow, to brow-beat the heart?" he said. "Isn't it often arrogant in its strength?" "One must let both have an innings," said Isaacson, smiling at the slang which suited him so little and suited Nigel so well. "Yes, and I believe you do. That's why but to go on with what we were saying. You've got a long sight into things.
These, however, are "gee-pole propositions," in the slang of the trail, and the man is doing hard work with a band around his chest and the pole in his hand. For quick travelling, fifty pounds to the dog is enough. The most useful "outside" strains that the white man has introduced into the dogs of the interior are the pointer and setter and collie.
Especially among the poorer or less respectable people, to whom the idea of crime becomes familiar, the use of slang euphemisms on this subject grows up. A person for whom the police are searching is "wanted." A man who is hanged "swings."
"She's always fearfully polite," some one else objected. "I never heard her use a single slang word." "Oh, well, Sally will cure her of that," Rosamond laughed. Eleanor sighed. It was so easy to be goodnatured that she couldn't understand anybody taking the trouble to sulk. "We must be nice to her anyway," she said decidedly. "She's Phyllis's twin, and she's in our class."
He was afterward asked if this wondrous outburst of slang was entirely unpremeditated. He said that it was; that it had all popped into his head at once; and that he should never have thought of it again, had not the story gone the round of the newspapers.
The difference is that the adjective insidiously captures the refined mind, while slang only holds captive the coarse mind. In a plain and intended to be truthful statement of any occurrence, the injection of three or four adjectives will change the whole tenor of narration, and give it a vraisemblance of untruth which it is hard for the hearer's mind to erase.
Mark agreed grudgingly and then they left the Alston sisters, to work out the best method of discovering what took Boye Mayer to Sacramento and what he did there. Jim proved to be a young, and as Fong had said, "awful smart boy." Smuggled into the country in his childhood, he spoke excellent English, interspersed with slang.
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