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"He's been leadin' a wild life at the university, it seems, an' to-day Fletcher got a telegram saying that the boy had been caught cheatin' in his examinations. The old man left on the next train, as mad as a hornet, I can tell you. He swore he'd bring the young scamp back an' put him to the plough. Well, well, thar are worse dangers than a pretty gal, though Susan won't believe it."
They're a cheap lot, most of 'em. They were a cheap lot home. The only difference is that back there everybody knew it, and out here everybody thinks they're great people because they get up on their hind legs and say so out loud. That old bluff, Major Miles, he was put out of a Richmond club, sir, for cheatin' at cards I know that for a fact!"
"I railly felt sorry for the poor old 'grave-digger, I did upon my soul, for hosses and ladies are two things, that a body can't help likin'. Indeed, a feller that hante no taste that way ain't a man at all, in my opinion. Yes, I felt ugly for poor 'grave-digger, though I didn't feel one single bit so for that cantin' cheatin', old Elder.
"What ye goin' to do about that other business?" she added, turning her wide eyes upon him abruptly "about gettin' even with that cheatin' Barden?" They had driven into the purple shadow of the mountains, and Parker seemed to have left his enthusiasm behind him with the sunlight. "I don't know," he said gloomily. "Do ye want me to kill 'im?"
But mark my words, says she, 'one of these days, you men who've been stealin' your wives' property and defraudin' 'em, and cheatin' 'em out o' their just dues, you'll have to stand before a Judge that cares mighty little for Kentucky law; and all the law and all the Scripture you can bring up won't save you from goin' where the rich man went.
Your mother confessed her unfaithfulness by Heaven! She taunted him with it. Isbel accused me of winnin' her by lies. But she took the sting out of that. "Isbel never forgave her an' he hounded me to ruin. He made me out a card-sharp, cheatin' my best friends. I was disgraced.
"Susan, you poor little fool, you," said she, at the same time giving her a hearty slap, as expressive of earnest sympathy, "I really do feel for you; that good-for-nothing fellow has been a cheatin' you, I do believe." "O, don't talk any more about it, for mercy's sake," said Susan; "I am sick of the whole of it." "That's you, Susan! Glad to hear you say so!
"Shouldn't wonder if I could put you there," calmly rejoined the Cap'n. "These forced lickidations to settle estates is something awful when the books ain't been kept any better'n yours. I shouldn't be a mite surprised to find that the law would get a nab on you for cheatin' your poor sister." Again the Colonel's face grew white.
Only only I thought there'd be no 'arm in my askin' you to do it throughout like. Midmore fairly gasped. 'Then, why the devil did you turn my carts back when when I sent them up here to do it throughout for you? Mr. Sidney sat down on the floodgates, his eyebrows knitted in thought. 'I'll tell you, he said slowly. ''Twas too dam' like cheatin' a suckin' baby. My woman, she said so too.
"When a sharp hides cards in Chinaman fashion up his sleeve, I reckon that's what you call cheatin', don't you?" "That's the size of it," assented each bystander, grimly. Ned Harris pressed his pistol-muzzle against the gambler's forehead, inserted his fingers in each of the capacious sleeves, and a moment later laid several high cards upon the table.
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