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Rankin, satisfied, smiled and winked victoriously over to Tommers, who was listening from an adjacent table. "Of course your suggestion is out of order, my dear man, to this extent," said Quinny, who never surrendered, "in that I am talking of fundamentals and you are citing details.
You lack the quality of self-sufficiency that is the characteristic of the higher critical faculties. You marry because you need a nurse." He ceased, thoroughly satisfied with the prospect of having brought on a quarrel, raised thumb and first finger in a gingerly loop, ordered a dash of sherry and winked across the group to Tommers, who was listening around his paper from the reading-room.
Stars nowadays, such as they are Heaven save the mark! are more plentiful than stock. But let them rest at that. I have known the time when there were as many as fifty Uncle Tommers on the road all doing well, if not better. There were no theatrical syndicates in those times to limit the enterprise and energy of the aspiring though poor and ambitious manager.
And every one of the four million other dogs that was in the crowd on the sidewalks fell into line, and such howling and yapping and scampering and screaming you never heard. Well, 'twas a mixed-up mess. That was the end of the parade. Next minute I was racing across country with the whole town and the Uncle Tommers astern of me, and a string of dogs stretched out ahead fur's you could see.
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