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I want to compliment you on the way you've handled yourselves these past few months. You boys are real spacemen!" He saluted and disappeared down the ladder leading to the exit port. "And that," said Roger, turning to his unit-mates, "is known as the royal come-on for a dirty detail!" "Ahhh, stop your gassing, Manning," growled Astro.
I don't want to get personal, but, take it from me, they're all after one thing. And they're a pack of selfish, mushy-headed tin horns with fishhook pockets, the kind you can't pull anything out of. "Well, to get back. About the first minute you get the big, come-on squeeze. Then next the big talk about being strangers in your town. Then next they open with the big, hearty invitations.
"That settles it," whispered Bart. "We think we're here, but we're only kidding ourselves. We can't be here. Heinie says so and, of course, he knows." "What a come-on he'd be for the confidence men," gurgled Billy. "They'd sell him the Brooklyn Bridge before he'd been on shore for an hour."
But I'm not such a come-on as to hand you half a million or so and get a promise in return. I want your plans, and I want 'em in full." A little exclamation broke from Sam Hupp. He checked it, but not before Berg's curiously penetrating pale blue eyes had glanced up at him, and away again. "I've told you, Mr.
Still, you find so many checks in the mail that you can usually choose somebody's account that will stand the strain. Do you know, I have made hundreds of checks and the banks have certified every single one!" Peabody laughed good naturedly. Things were looking up a bit. "What do you think I am, anyhow?" he asked. "I must look like a 'come-on." "I'm giving it to you straight," she said simply.
B'en trailin' her fer years. Le's go, pardner. You're goo' scout. So'm I hey?" "You bet your sweet life you're a good scout! Come on we'll have a time to-night." Drummond had previously sent a boy to Lucy with a note informing her that the come-on was about ripe for plucking, and telling her to put some one else in charge of the gallery and be in readiness.
I don't know anybody here and don't know where to begin." "Don't say green," corrected the other. "That's obsolete. Say raw, or that you're a hick, or a come-on. Well, what d'ye want to follow?" "I thought if I could get into some big man's office and work up, I might reach " The other man raised his hand protestingly and his face assumed a sick expression. "Forget it! Forget it!" he cried.
It was the accepted judgment of those present that the midget and the lout were staging a ballyhoo a "come-on" preliminary to the opening of the Kid Show. There was no applause as the little man outwitted his follower by an adroit dodge under the ticket wagon. No one tripped the lout as the race led through the assembled crowd.
"Your name's Smollett; you've struck it rich, and you're on your way home to New York, we'll say, from your mine in Colorado. You're stopping at the Marlborough, and we'll run across you accidentally I and the come-on to-morrow forenoon in the hotel lobby. Get that?" "I hear what you are saying." "All right. Now for the preliminaries.
So very lucrative did Mark make this transaction, that, finding himself with assets after filling up with teas, he thought himself justified in changing his course of proceeding. A small American brig, which was not deemed fit to double the capes, and to come-on a stormy coast, was on sale. She could run several years in a sea as mild as the Pacific, and Mark purchased her for a song.
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