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"That's missin' the Old Ladies' Home by some margin, ain't it?" "Yes," says J. Bayard Steele, adjustin' the chin part in his whiskers and tiltin' back comf'table in his chair, "I am beginning to think that the late Pyramid Gordon must have been a remarkably good judge of human nature." "For instance?" says I. "His selection of me as an executor of his whimsical will," says he.
But, on the other 'and, Dirk, Stiletto, Goblin, Ghoul, Djinn, and A-frite Red Fleet dee-stroyers, with 'oom we hope to consort later on terms o' perfect equality are Thorneycrofts, an' carry that Grecian bend which we are now adjustin' to our arriere-pensee as the French would put it by means of painted canvas an' iron rods bent as requisite.
"Thank you," says she crisp, adjustin' her picture hat. "It isn't often that I am obliged to depend on on strangers." And while Vee still has her mouth open, sort of gaspin' from the slam, the lady has marched up the steps and disappeared. "Now I guess you know where you get off, eh, Vee?" says I chuckly. "You will pass up your new neighbors." "How absurd of her!" says Vee.
"Well, in the first place," said Jasper Kemp, with a slow wink around at the company, "that little matter about hell needs adjustin'. Hell ain't no superstition. I ain't dictatin' what kind of a hell there is; you can make it fire or water or anything else you like, but there is a hell, an' you believe in it. D'ye understand?
He's bin our friend for some time, an' we bin his, but no one ain't never knowed his real 'pinion of us, an' I think it'd be some help in adjustin' matters all round if we did." Shielding his mouth with his hand, Shorty Palmer turned to Buck Higgins, and spoke in a hoarse whisper, that could be heard distinctly by everybody.
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