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Updated: May 24, 2025

"By this time the rowboat has gone a little ways off, an' then at last Hardenberg says: "'Welkum aboard, Signorita. "And Strokher cuts in with "'We thought it was to be a man that 'ud join us here to take command, but you, he says an' oh, butter wouldn't a-melted in his mouth 'But you he says, 'is always our mistress. "'Very right, bueno.

Frank Norris - A Deal in Wheat and Other Stories of the New and Old West