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She was incapable of clear thought, or she would have found some way out, undoubtedly. What she did, in the end, was to board an up-town car and throw herself on the mercy of the conductor. "I've got to get up-town," she panted. "I'll not go in. See? I'll stand here and you take me as far as you can. Look at me! I don't look as though I'm just bumming a ride, do I?" The conductor hesitated.
She had felt almost as reckless several times before; but never had she felt this devil-may-care eagerness to see what the turn of the next card would bring. "You'll take one?" "Sure. I feel like the devil. Been bumming round all night. My lady friend that I had with me a regular lady friend she was suddenly took ill. Appendicitis complicated with d.t.'s the ambulance guy said.
"I've been told that," replied Mr. Gale; and a shade overspread his worn face. "They blow their money, then go punching cows, take to whiskey." "Yes," rejoined Mr. Gale, feebly nodding. "Then they get to gambling, lose their jobs," went on Belding. Mr. Gale lifted haggard eyes. "Then it's bumming around, regular tramps, and to the bad generally."
Six months, an' you've learned to guess hard when you see Saney bumming around, or a uniform in the crowd. You've learned to wish you 'hadn't, so you dream things all night. You're yearning to get back to things as they were before you guessed you'd fancy them diff'rent, and you find that way the door's shut tight, and a feller with a darn sharp sword is sitting around waiting on you.
He was close to twenty-eight almost thirty and he'd spent the precious years "just bumming round." Nothing to show for them but a little gold dust and the clothes he wore. He wondered if his mother knew. Her wedding ring was still in a faded velvet case that he kept among his treasures.
"Indeed, Mrs Trotter, I think you wear very well. Pray, how is your husband?" "Ah, Mr Simple, poor dear Mr Trotter he's gone. No wonder, considering what he had been accustomed to, after keeping his carriage and dogs with everybody, to be reduced to see his wife go a bumming.
Rather as a mediocre pickpocket and a timorous confidence man had he eked out a meager existence, amply punctuated by seasons of straight bumming and intervals spent as the guest of various inhospitably hospitable states. Now, for the first time in his life, The General faced the possibility of a serious charge; and his terror made him what he never before had been, a dangerous criminal.
What's the little joker, Bland?" Bland turned his pale, opaque stare upon Johnny for a minute. "Aw, for cat's sake, gimme the doubt, bo! I'm human in more ways than tryin' to see how much booze I kin lap up. It's a chance I want to start fresh. This bumming around ain't getting me anything. I'm sick of it. You gotta be learnt to do exhibition stuff, and I'm the guy that can learn yuh.
He accepted with a nod the tobacco and papers Johnny held out to him, and proceeded languidly to roll a cigarette. "Down to straight bumming when I ought to be making my little old thousand dollars a flight. Maybe you've kept in touch with things on the Coast. I'm known there, well enough. Bland Halliday's my name. Here's my pilot's license about all them sharks didn't pry off me in the hospital!
"Yes, nuisance all right, but it's my one best editor and that may mean something real terribly cheeky thing for me to do, Pete bumming your car like this " "Oh rats, you know you're welcome and anyhow I'm lending it to you because you'll have to bring it back, and that means you'll come back yourself " "Well look, Pete, please make all the excuses you can for me to your mother.
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