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Updated: June 8, 2025
"An occasional dead-beat among them, of course, but it's amazing how high an average of character they strike, considering that they came out of four years of war war's demoralizing, you know! with only their shirts to their backs, and often those were only borrowed. You'll find some mighty solid business men in the ranks out there, and then on down to the humblest occupations. Look!
Our Fräulein made up for both, and questioned me fully; but now she, I could see, was in haste to go, although restrained by her manners, and the kind-hearted Frau Pastorin soon set her at liberty to follow her inclination. As for me I was dead-beat, and only too glad to avail myself of the hospitable couple's pressing request that I would stop and share their meal.
He judged that the time had about come. The end was very near. But he judged wrong. Gulo made the wood at length. With eyes of dull red, and breath coming in short, rending sobs, he got in among the trees. He did it, though the feat seemed impossible, for the trees had been so very far away. Got in among the trees yes, but dead-beat, and to what end?
CLEWS. That gentleman successively peered up the chimney, through the windows, and under the furniture of the room, and then stealthily took a seat near his rather languid observer. "Mr. BUMSTEAD, you know me as a temporary boarder under the same roof with you. Other people know me merely as a dead-beat. May I trust you with a secret?"
So far, we have done nothing but increase our scurrying a thousand-fold." He tried to make a joke of the matter. "You sound like a beatnik." "Perhaps," she answered slowly, still looking up at the screen. "They considered my father beat dead-beat. But I know more of this science than you do, Jack Odin. What if I told you there was little chance of finding Maya.
"Kill him, damn you!" shouted the other; "kill him as I have a hundred other curs this fall and pocket the money the law gives me for doing it. Do you understand that, you old dead-beat?" For a moment the wretched man never spoke, his lips paled to the color of ashes, and shrivelled as if suddenly parched against the teeth, and he clutched the back of a chair for support.
"Well, it's my business to speculate in mines, and I'm generally willing to pay for a useful tip. But it's got to be useful. I don't like to be stung, and the woods are full of dead-beat prospectors ready to put you wise about rich pay-dirt for a dollar or two." "My tip's all right," Drummond declared in a defiant tone. "I'll show you!
A better day's sport even the Quorn had never had in all its brilliant annals, and faster things the Melton men themselves had never wanted: both those who love the "quickest thing you ever knew thirty minutes without a check such a pace!" and care little whether the finale be "killed" or "broke away," and those of the old fashion, who prefer "long day, you know, steady as old time; the beauties stuck like wax through fourteen parishes, as I live; six hours, if it were a minute; horses dead-beat; positively walked, you know; no end of a day!" but must have the fatal "who-whoop" as conclusion both of these, the "new style and the old," could not but be content with the doings of the "demoiselles" from start to finish.
You're nothing but a renegade preacher, a dead-beat, and a hypocrite. Get out before I kick you out!" This brought the miserable evangel to a stand. "I'll go," he said, defiantly, "but I'll take your psychic with me we'll go together." "Go and be damned to the whole tribe of ye!" retorted Pratt, purple with fury.
She nodded and gave him an impatient, scrutinizing glance. His face had a fatuous kind of smile. "Been celebrating the pigeons?" she asked, dryly, jerking her head toward the two birds, which she had seen drop from her Eden skies a short time before. "I only had one swig of whiskey, honest Injun!" he answered. "I s'pose I might have waited till to-morrow, but I was dead-beat.
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