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When he met Mr Barber, and they began to talk about goin' huntin' for the treasure, he started to keep a diary, writin' down in it everything that Mr Barber told him about it; and there's a drawin' in it that Mr Barber made a sort of picture of the place, showing how it looked, so that they might know it when they saw it again."
"Tell me," says she, "is that supposed to be music?" "Not at all," says I. "That's jazz. We've got so we can't eat without it, you know." Also I suspect the Tortonis' dancin' act jarred her a bit. You've seen 'em do the shimmy-plus? "Well!" says she, drawin' in a long breath and lookin' the other way. "So that is an example of modern dancing, is it?"
I glances over to see how Sadie's takin' it, and finds her drawin' in a long breath. "Well, I never!" says she explosive. "What a shameless wretch! And you dared confess all this to Lindy?" "Pardon, Madam," says he, smilin' until he shows most of his white teeth, "but I desired no misunderstanding. It is my way with women, to tell them only what is true.
Honest Graft and Dishonest Graft EVERYBODY is talkin' these days about Tammany men growin' rich on graft, but nobody thinks of drawin' the distinction between honest graft and dishonest graft. There's all the difference in the world between the two. Yes, many of our men have grown rich in politics. I have myself.
He can have as many wives as he can support after each man has had his choice of the herd. The women are all beautiful, but in order that nobody will have a kick comin' the choice of wives is to be determined by drawin' lots. The island is to be fenced off an' each member o' the expedition is to have so much land.
Curtis that if she has to be washed, I'll wash her. I don't want no dago splashin' water all over the barn floor an' drawin' pay fer doin' it. Then's when I hears about the new car. Mr. Loeb comes out an' asts me if I ever drove a Packard twin-six. I says no I ain't, an' he says it's too bad. He asts the dago if he's ever drove one and the dago lies like thunder.
In some beautiful place of drooping foliage and placid water I almost felt that I should see the mystic barge drawin' nigh and I too should float off into some Lotus land. And so with all the other beloved poets and authors who seem nigher to us than our next door neighbors in the flesh.
Says I, "It controls New-York village, and nobody pretends to deny it; and all the piety and philanthropy and culture and philosiphy of that village has to be jest drawed along in that Ring. And," says I, in low but startlin' tones of principle, "Where, where, is it a drawin' 'em to? Where is it a drawin' the hull nation to?
And don't tell me you only been foolin' in here for three minutes, either, because when I come back from lunch just now there was Mis' Leffingwell up at the notions counter wanting some hooks and eyes, and she tells me she's waited there a good thutty minutes if she's waited one. Nice goin's on, I must say, for a boy drawin' down the money you be! Now you git busy!
Gillie viewed this wondrous spectacle with an awe-stricken heart, and then vented his feelings in a prolonged yell of ecstasy. "Ain't it splendid, sir?" he cried, turning his glowing eyes on Slingsby. "Majestic!" exclaimed the artist, whose enthusiasm was equal to that of his companion, though not quite so demonstrative. "Raither spoiled your drawin', though, ain't it, sir?"
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