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"Can he make a hundred and thirty-five ringside without being weak?" asked Sally. The effect of this simple question on Mr. Burrowes was stupendous. He dropped away from Fillmore's coat-button like an exhausted bivalve, and his small mouth opened feebly. It was as if a child had suddenly propounded to an eminent mathematician some abstruse problem in the higher algebra.
Burrowes clutched at his coat-button with a swoop, and held him with a glittering eye. "Yes, but, say, before-you-go-lemme-tell-ya-somef'n. You've never seen this boy of mine, not when he was feeling right. Believe me, he's there! He's a wizard. He's a Hindoo! Say, he's been practising up a left shift that..." Fillmore's eye met Sally's wanly, and she pitied him.
Nestor laughed at the puzzled boy's exclamation and sat for some time looking down on the dim camp-fire near the tents he had visited a short time before. The night was cloudless, with a slight wind blowing from the west. Now and then the sound of hoarse voices came from the peaks above. "The Mexican knocked off his heel there," he finally said, "and Scoby left his coat-button.
He staid, and was converted. Afterwards he said, "An ounce of weight upon my coat-button saved my soul." To watch for opportunity, and then to know how effectively to make use of the opportunity, is all-important in soul-winning. And there is no better teacher than the Holy Spirit, of whom it is said, "He shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance."
That part of the Seine is usually deserted except for nursemaids and children and an occasional workman. At the moment there was apparently no one in sight. "You don't know the Paris police that's evident," returned the journalist. "They would throw fits on the floor if I were so much as to carry off a coat-button. No, we must hide the coat and stick in the bushes again, and tell them to-morrow."
I have strong reason for confidently believing that we shall never be in the receipt of a smaller income than our present income. She might have shown herself more interested in the intelligence; but she had returned to the investigation of the coat-button that had engaged her attention a few hours before, and scarcely seemed to heed what he said.
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