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They heard the fat little legs stumping down the stairs. "That kid belongs to Shanty Town. She dances for the bar room buffers now; she'll dance later, like you and me, Bat, for bigger bluffers. Freedom of the press! Damn it, I'm sick of the bunco game, Bat " "Draw it easy," drawled Bat. "If you're sick of it, it's dead easy to get out.
The directors of the company were not bluffers; they were made of different stuff. They did not hesitate. They were in deadly earnest and absolutely meant to live up to their spoken word and the world knows how they redeemed their promises.
"What stumps me, though, is why one who takes life so hard should outlive a man like my father, who was all that is brave and cheerful. Perhaps it took it out of him to be always playing the game boldly against her fears. But even so give me the bluffers, like Red Pepper and like Mrs. Red. Jove! but she's a lovely woman. No wonder he adores her. So do I with his leave.
At last Captain Harris issued from one of them, tall and imposing, wearing a Stetson and fierce mustaches, a fur coat on his arm, a solitaire glittering upon his little finger and another in his black satin ascot. He was one of the grand old bluffers of those good old days.
But we can't lie, you know!" "I hate to take the kiddies to New York, Mike," perhaps some young matron would say simply. "Percy's family is one of the old, old families there, you know, shamelessly rich, and terribly exclusive! And one doesn't want the children to take themselves seriously yet awhile!" "Bluffers!" the smiling and interested Miss Brown would say to herself, as she listened.
"I couldn't sell a real story. Truth is too strange to pose as fiction." "That's so," he answered, slowly. "Who'd think that you could have become a writer, and I a hash slinger? Making lots of money, I suppose." "No, I'm not, or I wouldn't be in your society to-night." "We're all bluffers, I guess. You are, here in this beanery with your glad rags on. I am, too no, not now.
The man of effrontery is a passionate devotee of bluff, and not only of that variety of which Jonathan Dick has said: "It is a security discounted in advance." A little further on he adds: "Bluffers of the right sort are only so when the occasion demands it, in order to give the impression that the wished-for result has already been achieved.
"By the way, speaking of Johnny Gamble, he was very anxious to get you fellows out here to-day. Now I want to give you some solemn advice, Colonel; you'd better keep away from this pot." "Bless my soul, I have a rotten hand!" confessed Colonel Bouncer, puffing his cheeks. "But you old bluffers can't drive me out of any place; so I'll trail." And he measured up to Courtney's stack.
"You don't know how it is, Greenbrier. It's so comfortable here that " "Please loan me your smelling salts," pleaded Greenbrier. "If I hadn't seen you once bluff three bluffers from Mazatzal City with an empty gun in Phoenix " Greenbrier's voice died away in pure grief. "Cigars!" he called harshly to the waiter, to hide his emotion. "A pack of Turkish cigarettes for mine," said Merritt.
I had to give my lesson hour this morning to a Duluth woman who has come on to coach, and I must go and play 'On Mighty Pens' for her. Please tell Mr. Harsanyi that I think oratorio is a great chance for bluffers." Mrs. Harsanyi detained her. "But he will want to know much more than that about you. You are free at seven?
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