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And the boy apparently expected the same, for he cowered back, putting up his hands as though to ward off a blow. "Got you, sonny," said the bookie, and bolted with a half-hearted grin. The girl never hesitated. She leapt upon her victim, keen and direct as a tigress. "Give me that ticket!" she ordered in a deep bass voice whose earnestness was almost awful.
Allegory apart, instances of what I mean will occur to every one; perhaps the most obvious is Socialism. If a man claims to be a Socialist in that sense he can be any kind of man he likes in any other sense—a bookie, a Mahatma, a man about town, an archbishop, a Margate nigger. Blatchford, or a Don, like Mr. Ball, or a Bathchairman like Mr. Meeke, or a clergyman like Mr.
Bob asked. "Well, there's only one policeman in Cunjee, and, being a wise man, he went to the concert, and probably enjoyed himself very much," said Mr. Linton, laughing. "And what happened to the bookie?"
He kept well under the lee of the tent; and if he was brazen, it was clear that he was sinning and fearful of discovery: for he had one eye always on the watch for the Avenging Angel who might swoop down on him at any moment. "What price, Goosey Gander?" he asked in a voice harsh and cracking. "Give you threes," replied the bookie.
That single afternoon would thus bring me in five hundred thousand pounds provided the bookie did not blow his brains out. Backers in Novel-land do not seem to me to know their way about. If the hero of the popular novel swims at all, it is not like an ordinary human being that he does it. You never meet him in a swimming-bath; he never pays ninepence, like the rest of us, for a machine.
In this somewhat ignominious position dizzily he heard Yorke's mocking tones: "What are the odds on Fox, bookie? . . . I'd like a few of those dollars when you've quite finished picking them all up." With an almost superhuman effort the young fellow controlled himself once more as he arose. Not lightly had he given a promise.
When all the members of the syndicate had handed over their contributions, Bundy went out to arrange matters with the bookie, and when he had gone Easton annexed the copy of the Obscurer that Bundy had thrown away, and proceeded to laboriously work through some carefully cooked statistics relating to Free Trade and Protection.
The former has thought, and thought out thoroughly and clearly, the relations of his mind to the universe as a whole, and of himself to the State and life. A mind untrained in swift and adequate criticism is essentially an uneducated mind, though it has as many languages as a courier and as much computation as a bookie.
Then there was a gap of several weeks, and hope revived that things might not be as bad as he had feared only to be crushed by another trenchant screed. After that he set about his excavations methodically, resolved to know the worst. He knew it in just under two hours. There it all was his row with the bookie, his bad behaviour at the political meeting, his breach-of-promise case.
We backs the 'orse-soldier to win, and, if he do, we drinks a gallon between us. If 'e don't, we drinks two fer to console 'im, an' drahn sorrer, wot?" "So it are, Will'm," agreed Henery. "Then we wins either way! You got a 'ead fer logger-rhythms. Oughter been a bloomin' bookie. They 'as to be big an' ugly " "Seconds out of the Ring," called the referee, and a hush fell upon the excited throng.
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