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"I'm sayin' so-long to you, ma'am," smiled Harlan. "Oh!" she said, aware of the flatness of her tone. "Are you going away?" "I'm figurin' to go. I ain't used to hangin' around one place very long. But I'm comin' back some day. Red Linton an' the boys will be seein' that things go smooth with you. You can depend on Red, and all the boys. They're Simon-pure, dyed-in-the-wool, eighteen-carat men."
Yet, when you come to wash your pan of dirt, and the lies have all been carried off down the flume, and you've got the color of the few particles of solid, eighteen-carat truth left, you'll find it's the Sultan who's smoking Turkish cigarettes; and that Mabel is trying cubebs for her catarrh; and that the cashier of the Teenth National belongs to a whist club in the suburbs and is the superintendent of a Sunday-school in the city; and that Dan has put Daisy up to visiting her mother to ward off a threatened swoop down from the old lady; and that the Czar hasn't done a blame thing except to become the father of another girl baby.
It might be said, for instance, that if a piece of gold is sold as eighteen-carat gold, and it is in fact not so pure, or if a cow is sold as yielding an average of twelve quarts of milk a day, and in fact she yields only six quarts, there is no logical difference, according to the explanation which has just been offered, between those cases and that of the barrel of salt sold for mackerel.
Dutch Willie, or let us call him William van Hert, will drop this wild anti-British policy of his like a hot brick, if you will only make up your mind to be Madam van Hert, and bless his hearth with a Dutch doll or two, having good English blood in their veins as well as eighteen-carat Dutch," and the chuckles grew more and more audible.
To a man who regards himself as being the real thing, flesh and blood, and, well, eighteen-carat flesh and blood at that, to be accused of living only a figmentary existence is too much. I retorted angrily. "If you consider me nothing more than an idea, you do not manifest your usual astuteness," I said. Her reply laid me flat. "I do not consider you anything of the sort.
That is if he's a real man." "You're wrong again," Gregory contradicted. "They are eighteen-carat men. I've tried them out already. I know." "Where?" "In France." "You mean soldiers?" "Yes. I called up a friend of mine last night in Port Angeles. He used to be first lieutenant in my company. He's a reporter on The Times now.
Mackenzie, widow of the Premier under whom the C.P.R. had been commenced, was of an unusual character, for it was of eighteen-carat gold. In the course of an hour it was replaced by a more serviceable spike of steel. I have often seen Mrs. Mackenzie wearing the original gold spike, with "Craigellachie" on it in diamonds.
Do you think a gospel car would catch him for half a dollar? He would see you in Hades first. The best way is to take a little eighteen-carat religion along into the smoking car, or any other car you may happen to be in.
Twenty thousand Amy's money. I played it at the races lost every cent of it. I've been a pretty bad boy, Burglar excuse me Doctor, but I've been a square sport. I don't think I ever met such an eighteen-carat rascal as you are, Doctor excuse me Burglar, in all my rounds. Is it contrary to the ethics of your gang, Burglar, to give a victim excuse me patient, a drink of water?"
It was pleasant to her to play fairy godmother to a millionaire's daughter. "To me suite in the St. Savior," said she. "To a hot tub, dearie, and a hot dinner, and a warm bed." In Martha's sitting-room were flowers. She could afford them. On the bureau in her bedroom was a large photograph of the Poor Boy, in an eighteen-carat gold frame, very plain and smart.
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