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"Well, I reckon I have and, after all, nobody is going to look at me and I do want to go. I'll say yes and I can bulldoze Mother into accepting, too, I am sure. I think it is the grandest thing that ever happened for all of you to be giving a debut party, and I'm going to come, and what's more, I intend to dance every dance." "Now you are talkin'," shouted the old men. "Save some dances for us."
He is the man I told you about who helped me save my father the night of the fire." "He acted very queerly. And Lem Wacker, too," added Darry thoughtfully. "Is something new up, Bart? The way Wacker carried on, he seemed to have some idea in his head." "He had the idea he could bulldoze me," said Bart bluntly, "and found he couldn't.
Kahn had been surveying Carton keenly, now and then taking a shifty glance at Kennedy and myself. As Carton rapped out the last words, as if in the nature of an ultimatum, Kahn gazed at him in amazement. Here was a man whom he knew he could neither bribe, bully, or bulldoze. "You must consider this, too," he added pointedly. "There has been a good deal of mud-slinging in this campaign.
I'll show 'em that they can't bulldoze a foreigner for flagging one of their little tinpot trains, and I've spent fifty thousand a year here, at least, for the last four years." I was glad I was not his lawyer.
If his men tried to bulldoze him they would find him immovable. What he believed was right and just he would do; but he had his own set notions of right and justice. He was sympathetic. His attitude toward the five thousand was one of friendliness. He regarded them as a charge and a responsibility.
That, Jordan insisted should be paid out of his share, and it took an hour to talk him out of it. Then it required another half hour for the three to bulldoze McGregor into accepting it. The convincing argument was made by Jordan, who said: "Supposin' you hedn't a-come, whar would I a-bin now?" McGregor went out, and then Browning said: "I have a little matter to speak of.
Meanwhile Porter was feverish. He tried to bulldoze the sergeant in the telegraph office only to be hustled off by a corporal's guard. He finally reached the Colonel's ear, but was heard in courteous silence. He made an effort to call up the Oakwood Club to send a message to McNally, but the sunburned young fellow in the 'phone box leaned on his rifle and shook his head.
"He is president of the club; the pet of women; the admired of all the dolts and gawks who are taken with his style, his easy laughter, and his knack at getting at men's hearts. He won't laugh so easily when he's up before a jury for murder; and he'll never again fool women or bulldoze men, even if they are weak enough to acquit him of this crime. Enough of the smirch will stick to prevent that.
He's come on this time, I daresay, to bulldoze 'em into 'is way of thinking. He's wonderful persistent. Like as not he'll help Tom out some more afore he leaves, just to draw the web closer. He'll stay a few days, 'anging around 'er like a vulture, paying no attention to 'er rebukes, and then he'll go off to return another day. He's wrecked Tom Braddock, just as a stepping-stone.
Her patience was exhausted. "For Heaven's sake, Will, have a little patience!" she said. "If you like your man so well, you had better live at home, but don't come around here with a grouch and bulldoze everybody " "Don't think for a moment that there's much to come around here for. Annie, this room's stuffy." "Yassuh." "Draw those portières. Let those curtains up. Let's have a little light.
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