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The pleasantry did not apparently disconcert the other, but he looked carefully around as if searching for something before he answered. "To be candid, I followed you here to have a talk with you." "The deuce you did white choker and all! You have a cheek, haven't you? Then you must be pretty flush, after all, even if you have not any expectations, like me, Ringfield.
When a man knows he has nothing within his head to trust to, when he has neither sense nor genius, he puts on a wig, ties up his neck in a white choker, sits in a big chair, and frightens the world with his silence. Remember, if you were not a baby, he would not be a bugbear." "And should I not ask to see Fanny?" "By all means.
Take a good look, an' don't miss the necktie he's wearin'. Pretty li'l rope choker we got for Dandy Anthony. Ain't no man can go killin' an' get away with it, while I'm here," looking around for applause. "Name of a pig!" hissed Mignon. "You you would." "Sure' we would! Right out on the lynchin' tree." She turned and dashed for the rear. "Ze sheriff! He must come toute suite!"
Bravely the three great catches accepted every invitation, and, though it was a very unusual addition to his regular duties, the Reverend Abednego Choker faithfully attended all the evening festivities, to the end that they might be decorously closed with prayer, as had from time immemorial been the custom of Hardhack.
But most interesting of all to Miss Larrabee were the daguerreotypes quaint old portraits in their little black boxes, framed in plush and gilt. The old woman brought out picture after picture her husband's among the others, in a broad beaver hat with a high choker taken back in Brattleboro before he came to Kansas.
All over America in rail carriages, stage coaches, river steamers, and public places, of all sorts, every critter that wears a white choker, and looks like a minister, has the best seat given him. He expects it, as a matter of course, and as every female is a lady, every woman has a right to ask you to quit, without notice, for her accommodation.
"'You see, Archie, he said, 'it was such a choker; the beast griped so hard, I couldn't get a chance to kick his shins; it was all grip and tumble. I think he must have hit me on the head, it feels rather sore. Brave old Ned, throat and head both bore marks of the fellow's violence for more than a week after.
They were none the worse, however, our genial host making it up to them in an extra generous provision and a special evening entertainment. Doctor, I did have some fun kidding that waiter in the white choker. He took a liking to me so I let him pal up. I told him my name was Lord Shaftesbury when I was home, but I asked him not to let it out, and the old bloke promised he wouldn't."
If you think that she is responsible for her present state, you and I differ if you think that one shadow of blame rests upon her, we differ again. And if there are any more like her in the room, let them come out, and they shall have all that they ask for, that it is within our power to give." "Hear, hear, guv'nor!" "That's ginger for 'im." "Out of this, old white choker. There's beans for you."
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