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And Blake added, "We've sold every fur and every pound of bone and oil, and we've forty Upisk wives to our credit at fifty dollars apiece." Uppy's grin became larger, and his throat was filled with an exultant rattle. In the matter of the Upisk wives he knew that he stood ace-high. "Never," said Blake, "has our wife-by-the-month business been so good.
I thought maybe I'd done something I hadn't ought to do, through ignorance of the rules and regulations of mining. "'Red, says he dead solemn, 'I've mined for twenty year, and from Old Mexico to Alaska, but I never saw anything that was ace-high to that before. Gold laying loose in chunks on top of the bed-rock is too much for me I wish Hy could see this.
"Hermy Hermione, sir." "Hermione why, that's Greek! It's a very beautiful name!" "Kind of fits her too!" nodded Spike, warming to his theme. "Hermy's ace-high on the face and figure question! Why, there ain't a swell dame on Fift' Av'ner, nor nowheres else, got anything on Hermy as a looker!" "And what of your father and mother?"
"I'm ace-high with Chief Barlow!" "You've got to be more explicit." Barney was now all excitement. "Don't you get what that means? I've never been locked up once, and yet I've been pulling stuff all the time! And yet look how Larry Brainard, that the bunch thought was so clever, got hooked and was sent away. I guess you know the answer!" "Again, Barney, I've got to ask you to be more explicit."
"Poggin, you're a gambler, you are the ace-high, straight-flush hand of the Big Bend," he said, with stinging scorn. "I'll bet you my roll to a greaser peso that I can deal you a hand you'll be afraid to play." "Phil, you're talkin' wild," growled Poggin, with both advice and menace in his tone. "If there's anythin' you hate it's a man who pretends to be somebody else when he's not. Thet so?"
There is nothing equal to running for office to move the love of a man for his fellows, or to mellow his heart to magnanimous deeds. "Say," called the horse-thief in voice softened by the vapors of his steaming dinner, "that friend of yours with the whiskers all over him is ace-high over here in this end of the dump!
The chief's cousin wants a hair-cut. 'We must find him. We must. 'Surest thing you know, said Mr Shute. 'Plenty of time. 'We must find him. Mr Shute regarded her with some displeasure. 'Seems to be ace-high with you, that dub, he said. 'I don't understand you.
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