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"I'd made pulp out'n you if I'd got you," remarked Mr. Gaylord, with a reminiscent chuckle that was almost pleasant. "But you were always a goldurned smart boy, Austen, and you've done well with them little suits." He gazed at Austen a moment with his small, filmy-blue eye. "I don't know but what you might take hold here and make it hot for those d-d rascals in the Northeastern, after all.
"Knowing Number Seven," Austen continued, "you probably realize that the political and business future of nearly every one of the twenty State senators depends upon the favour of the Northeastern Railroads." "I know that the d-d fools won't look at money," said Mr. Gaylord; "Hammer's tried 'em."
"Why does he not show it then, and be d-d to him!" said the military gentleman, whose patience began to wax threadbare. "Why, how should I know?" answered the barrister, "why does a cat not kill a mouse when she takes him? the consciousness of power and the love of teasing, I suppose. Well, Mr. Protocol, what say you to that deed?" "Why, Mr.
This d-d red forest and this blue haze are enough to" He broke off with an oath. "I came as fast as I could," said the other. His voice was strange, thin and dreamy, matching his filmy eyes and his eternal, very faint smile. "Your poor physician congratulates your lordship upon the success that still attends you. Yours is a fortunate star, my lord." "Then you have her safe?" cried my lord.
What in blazes are we comin' to in this country if we can't git competition? If Flint stops that bill, I'll buy a newspaper and go to the people with the issue and throw his d-d monopoly into bankruptcy." "It's all very well to talk about competition and monopolies and lobbies," said young Tom, "but how about the Gaylord Lumber Company?
'You are one of those d-d prudent fellows that I could never abide with, said I. 'You are the kind of man that has a long head. That's all the world, my dear sir: the long-heads and the short-horns! Now, I am a short-horn. 'I doubt, says he, 'that you will not go very far without getting sheared. I offered to bet with him on that, and he made off, shaking his head.
Sir, sack will make a cat sing, and speak too; so up with a merry stave, or trundle yourself out of my doors! Do you think you are to take up all my valuable time with your d-d declarations, and then tell me you cannot sing?"
"I told you that before you started in," young Tom remarked, "but when you get mad, you won't listen to sense. And then there's the Honourable Asa Gray, who wants to represent the Northeastern some day in the United States Senate." "The bill ought to pass," shrieked old Tom; "it's a d-d outrage. There's no reason why I shouldn't be allowed to build a railroad if I've got the money to do it.
"Sturm-wetter!" said the Captain, "do ye think we were mad?-none of us, man Gott! the country was too hot for the trade already with that d-d frolic of Brown's, attacking what you call Woodbourne House." "Why, I am told," said Glossin, "it was Brown who shot Hazlewood?" "Not our lieutenant, I promise you; for he was laid six feet deep at Derncleugh the day before the thing happened.
The gardens and burial-ground are beautiful, and the square is entirely shaded by about ten or twelve superb oaks; nothing prettier can be conceived. It is not popular in the neighbourhood. 'You see it makes the d-d niggers cheeky' to have homes of their own and the girls are said to be immoral. As to that, there are no so-called 'morals' among the coloured people, and how or why should there?
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