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"Oh, Jock, it is not just so easily managed as that," she said faltering; "there are several things to think of. I will have to let the trustees know, and it must all be calculated." "There is not much need for calculation," said Jock, "that is just about it. Five per cent is what you get for money. You had better send the cheque for it, Lucy, and then let the old duffers know of it afterwards.
All those other sick duffers would want her to talk to them, and the nurses would stop her, and the young house-doctor would claim a flower for his buttonhole. Chick hated them all indiscriminately. It seemed an hour before her bright, reassuring face bent over him, and he heard her say: "It won't be long, now, Chicky Boy. Dr.
We went over, and talked to the president of one of them a smooth guy with white mutton chops and the girl had signed up the preliminary papers already, and tomorrow the whole boodle was going to drop softly into her lap. Say, I felt better when I learned they hadn't copped the swag yet. But just the same I needed help." "And you got it?" "Sure; those two duffers coughed up money in a stream.
Go before the Board of Education? Of course I will. And I'll make any accuser of mine look mighty small before that august board of local duffers!" Brave words! They cheered the young miscreant, anyway. Phin ate his supper with something like relish. Afterwards he set out for the High School building, in which the Board had its offices.
'High brows, 'dreamers, 'ghost walkers, 'barkers, 'biters, 'muck-rakers! Oh, he knew the choice names that lawless greed cast at such as he; but a greater than he had said something about the meek and the inheritance of the earth; and there lay the work of the snow flake across the trail. "I suppose," he remarked absently, "it's our duty to go down and dig those dead duffers out."
When they got home they boasted to a lot of their 'chums' how much they had screwed out of the old captain. This induced some of them to go on the same 'racket, and of course they met with the same warm reception. These 'shallow-blokes' turn 'duffers' sometimes.
Could she be laughing at him? The prospect of a new building had been, it was true, a joke for many years and evidently she put no more confidence in the statement than he did himself. "Of course, you are aware," he continued to bolster his assertion, "that the road has been bought by an immensely rich lot of Pittsburg duffers " The stenographer half rose in her chair.
No," he said. "Only surprised. Why, Abel, here's the very place we want. We could hide here for years, and they could be scouring the country for us, and them not a penny the wiser. That tumble of mine was just the luckiest thing imaginable. You talk about falling into hell! Why, man, we've fallen into heaven, and if we don't make the best use we can of the place we're the biggest duffers alive."
Daney, where the devil are you? Don't run away from me. You damned old muddler, if I get my hands on you I'll pick you apart yes, I will to see what makes you go. You did it, Yes, you did even if you're too stupidly honest to lie about it. Glad of that, though, Mr. Daney. Hate liars and interfering duffers. Ah the cold-blooded calculation of it took advantage of her poverty.
Never had the navy been so crippled and the people, presaging correctly a forthcoming invasion, suffered a new series of terrors which was only relieved by the news of the Russian landings on the California coast at Cambria, San Simeon and Big Sur. "... What did I tell you? What did I tell them, the duffers and dunderheads?
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