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"I know what you're doing," she said at last; "you're trying to break his bank. You always said you would." "Oh, that stuff!" he jeered, "that was nothing but hot air. I'm a blow-hard everybody knows that." She looked at him again, and her face became very grave, for she knew what was gnawing at his heart. And she was far from being convinced.
"We'll lose the case," calculated Stillwater; "we'll save our friends, and get rid of Craig, whom everybody will blame the damned, bumptious, sophomoric blow-hard!" What excuse did Stillwater make to himself for himself in this course of seeming treachery and assassination? For, being a man of the highest principles, he would not deliberately plan an assassination as an assassination.
"Now this is a regular blow-hard, and no mistake," exclaimed the Captain, as the party stood in the doorway watching the bending trees and the clouds that rushed so wildly overhead. "Good thing we picked up our anchor when we did, or just as like as not we should have had to lie there all night."
'Now or never, young blow-hard, interrupted his informant. 'Come, what jabber is this going on? said the lieutenant, stepping forward. 'Bring your man. One of the marines set foot on the ladder, but at the same moment a shoe from Bob's hand hit the lantern with well-aimed directness, knocking it clean out of the grasp of the man who held it.
And as they came up, sure enough, away went two boys along the footpath, keeping up with the horses the first a light, clean-made fellow going on springs; the other stout and round-shouldered, labouring in his pace, but going as dogged as a bull-terrier. Old Blow-hard looked on admiringly.
As for our gallant host, I never saw such spirits; he is a fine old grey-headed blow-hard of fifty odd, talking English like a native, and combining the frank open-hearted cordiality of a sailor with that graceful winning gaiety peculiar to Frenchmen.
"Now, a'n't ye a couple of old horse-marines!" again interrupted the young sailor; "don't you see that Congress wants us to cut up Johnny Bull's coasters, and that old Blow-Hard has found the days too short for his business, and so he has landed a party to get hold of night.
But if I ever do help by jollying you along, old Paulski, I guess maybe Saint Pete may let me in after all!" "Yuh, you're an old blow-hard, Georgie, you cheerful cut-throat, but you've certainly kept me going." "Why don't you divorce Zilla?" "Why don't I! If I only could! If she'd just give me the chance! You couldn't hire her to divorce me, no, nor desert me.
I told him Richards was a blow-hard, and I told him those Alliance grocery folks he bought such a lot of truck of would skin him, and they did; those canned things they sold him was all musty, and they said there wasn't any freight on 'em, and he had to pay freight and a fancy price besides; and I don't believe they had any more to do with the Alliance than our cow!"
"She won't let you overlook who she is, and what she owns, and what she 'done, you'll soon hear it. She's the most inquisitive blow-hard I ever came across."
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