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You go down and face the music, and I'll trot out to Goodwin's and see if Mrs. Goodwin won't take them in. They've got the decentest house in town." "Bless you, Billy!" said the consul. "I knew you wouldn't desert me. The world's bound to come to an end, but maybe we can stave it off for a day or two." Keogh hoisted his umbrella and set out for Goodwin's house. Johnny put on his coat and hat.
I get three shillings a week, which is about fivepence a day; out of that I eat threepence I'm a big, growing lad, and it's hard to be hungry. There's twopence left to pay for lodging. I tried it once twice at the decentest place I could find, but " here an expression of intolerable disgust came over the boy's face "I don't intend to try that again. I was never used to it.
He was unbalanced by grief as he thrust the Westminster Gazette and the Globe into Henry's hands. "But, damn it, she can't have gone down," Henry said, "she's a Belfast boat ... she can't have gone down!" "She has, I tell you, and Tom Arthurs ... oh, my God, Quinny, he's gone down too! The decentest chap on earth and ... and he's been drowned!" Henry led him into the house.
All this being so, it will give you neither surprise nor concern to hear my Lord H d hath run off with his ward, Miss Nanny Graves, leaving his lady with four children. We shall have them back in a few months with reputations so little worse crackt than those of the decentest among us as will not be worth the trouble of censuring, and give neither themselves nor others the smallest uneasiness.
Sometimes he spoke out in sudden, half-amused praise of some debutante, she was a "funny little devil," or "she was the decentest kid in this year's crop," and perhaps he would follow up this remark with a call or two upon the admired young girl, and Ella would begin to tease him about her.
"If nobody asked questions," pointed out Banneker, remembering Gardner's resolute devotion to his professional ideals, "there wouldn't be any news, would there?" "Sure! That's right," agreed the gilded youth. "The Ledger's the decentest paper in town, too. It's a gentleman's paper. I know a feller on it; Guy Mallory; was in my class at college. Give you a letter to him if you like."
I'll sign this, and I shall expect every sister I have to do the same, quickly and cheerfully, as the best way out of a bad business that has hurt all of us for years, and then I shall expect the boys to follow like men. It's the fairest, decentest thing we can do, let's get it over."
"I think you'll find I'm not hard to get along with." "I think you'll find I am," replied the other with some grimness. "But I know the game. Well, let's get down to cases. What do you want to do with the 'Clarion'?" "Make it the cleanest, decentest newspaper in the city." "Then you don't think it's that, now." "No. I know it isn't." "Did you get that from Dr. Surtaine?" "Partly."
As for you I regard you as one of the decentest men I ever knew outside of business. And even there, I believe you'd keep your word, as long as the other fellow kept his." "Thank you," said he, bowing ironically. "This flattery makes me suspect you've come to get something." "On the contrary," said I. "I want to give something. I want to give you my coal mines."
Whenever you get hold of a novel that preaches and preaches and preaches, and can't give a poor ticket-of-leave man or the decentest sort of a villain credit for one good trait Gee, Whizz! how tiresome they are lose it, you young scamp, at once, if you respect yourself. If you are pushed you can say that Bill Jones took it away from you and threw it in the creek.
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