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It was all very well for this casual youth to make her a present of a half million acres of land in this debonair way, but she could not persuade herself to accept so munificent a gift. "I don't know I'll have to think if you are the legal owner " "You're welching," he told her amiably. "I make a legal deed of conveyance because we are all agreed that my title isn't morally good.
"It was you who suggested the wager; I only accepted it." "I know it." "And once booked, no Englishman will welch, if he isn't a cad." "I'm not thinking of welching. But I don't see what you get out of it." "Sport. And a good hand at bridge." "Remarkably good." "I say, you don't mean to insinuate . . ." "I'm not insinuating. I'm just damnably tired.
Some womanly, though welching, intuition led the bride to lock her door. Some manly intuition led the hero to enter the gardens and climb in through a window into the house. If he had not been a hero it would have been a rather reprehensible act. But to the heroes all things are pure. He prowled through the house heroically without attracting attention.
This exaggeration was gross, but it could feed the flame of his passion for her like oil. "I'll work us up and out of this! I've got better stuff in me. I want to wind you in pearls diamonds sapphires." "I had a five-thousand-dollar string once of star sapphires." "Trust me, Winnie. Help me by having confidence in me. I'm glad my luck is welching. It will be lean at first, until I get on my legs.
I reckon they would have come across with at least ten thousand dollars. There's a manslaughter chap who owns four big apartment houses. But I picked you because I could sympathize with you on account of your mother and that girl the papers said so much about. It's a job that can't be done over again, not even for the Apostle Peter. Now will you even hint at welching?" "Certainly not!"
In his emphasis on that assertion Wagg scarred his knuckles against the ledge. "After all the work I've had in getting myself to that point, I'm proposing to stay there. If you try to soften me I shall consider that you're welching on your trade." Wagg made the declaration in loud tones.
I think the trouble was that I grew accustomed to the life, so that the exhilarating effects of it wore off, or got so soaked into my system that I began to take it all as a matter of course. And that, naturally, left room for other things. I know I'm no good at analysis, and that's as close as I can come to accounting for my welching, the third week out.
Science is prostituted to deceive the public by cloaking the increasing deterioration in quality of merchandise. The blatant medium of advertising has become so mendacious as to defeat its own purpose. In the recent deflation in commodity values, there was widespread "welching" among business men who had theretofore been classed as reputable.
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