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His gentleman was a free-handed sport and what was good enough for him was none too good for his driver; champagne, the fellow wanted me to go out and have with him, and I couldn't tell you what-all, Miss." "I rather expected that," Willa nodded. "Then, when I got home to my boardin'-house, there was a new lodger in the room next to mine, a long-legged, sandy-haired galoot.
Now ye leave all the rest to Jim Fenton, yer pa's old friend. Don't ye begin to feel a little better now?" "Yes, sir." "You can kiss me again, if ye want to. I didn't mean to choke ye off. That was all in fun, ye know." Harry kissed him, and then Jim said: "Now make tracks for yer old boardin'-house. I'll be along bimeby."
You'd turn up your nose at Columbus Avenue, I guess," said Miss Kirk. "That's where I hang out. It ain't a boardin'-house. What's the use shellin' out for meals and not bein' home to them? I'd like awful well to have you in the same movie with me. There ain't a guyl I care to speak to on the film!
You boardin'-house loafer an' the rest of you scum o' the seven seas, git yore shovels an' git to diggin', or I'll put you ashore in San Francisco flat broke, an' glad to leave the ship, at that. Jump!" The Finn snarled, and the rest stood firm. Not one of them knew the real value of their promised share.
How could he be short-handed when everybody knows that Daly's boardin'-house is chock-full of fightin' Dutchmen? No, no! It'll be the sack for Mister Bully B. Nathan if he lets a capful o' fair wind go by and his anchor down. Gracie's agents 'll watch that!" "Well! He's here for th' night, anyway. . . . There goes her mudhook!"
"He's thinkin'," suggested that worthy facetiously. "So am I," asserted Pete, not at all facetiously. Out in the street Pete "cheeked" Blue Smoke, and swung up quickly, expecting the pony to go to it, but Smoke merely turned his head and gazed at the livery with a sullen eye. "He's sad to leave his boardin'-house," and Pete touched Smoke with the spur.
"No, I didn't know he had. How did you know it?" "I knew. Ain't much goin' on that I don't know; I make it my business to know. Why don't you sell out to old Holliday?" "I don't want to sell. My boardin'-house has just got a good start and why should I give it up? I won't sell." "Oh, you won't! Pretty independent for anybody with a mortgage hangin' over 'em, ain't ye?"
But if them boarders eat as much every day as they have this one 'twon't be a start, 'twill be a finish. Lor I mean mercy on us, ma'am if this is a boardin'-house I'd like to know what a palace is. Why a king never had better grub served to him. Huh! I guess he didn't. Old George Three used to eat gruel, like a like a sick orphan at the Home. Oh, he did, ma'am, honest!
Gaius is as punctual as a boardin'-house dinner. The old parson used to wait until the last Winslow had toddled up the meetin'-house steps and then he'd come out of this side door with his sermon in his hand. It's a pretty good rule to remember and saves watchin' the clock. Besides, it's what we've been used to, and that goes a good ways with some folks. Good-by, Mr. Ellery.
I know my place, an' I know my dooty, an' if your boardin'-house lady knows hers, there'll be no trouble whatsomedever, so dontcher worry." She descended the three steps leading from the street-level down into the little paved courtyard below, and rang the basement bell.
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