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'He was drunk and poisoned him. 'Ah! who gave him drink? Who made him a drunkard two years ago? Who has wrecked his life? There was no answer, and the even-toned voice went relentlessly on 'Who is the murderer of your child now? Slavin groaned and shuddered. 'Go! and the voice grew stern. 'Repent of your sin and add not another.
He understood that every admission made by Edward with such grave and strange directness, would justly have condemned him to punishment which the culprit's odd, and upright, and even-toned self-denunciation rendered it impossible to think of inflicting.
You may burn and destroy and shoot as you please, but while I'm alive I'll stay with you. Blaze away, if that's what you want to do." The horror-stricken watcher at the door covered her face with her hands to shut out the sight of the murder. It was not until Lidgerwood's voice, calm and even-toned and taunting, broke the silence that she ventured to look again. "Well, gentlemen, I'm waiting.
"You know, better than any one else, I think, what the stumbling-blocks are, and who is putting them in my way." "Maybe so; maybe I do," was the even-toned answer. "It happens so, once in a while, that I know a heap of things I can't tell, son." Then: "Has McVickar been calling you down?" "No one has called me down. But some one, or something, is keeping me out of the real fight.
He understood that every admission made by Edward with such grave and strange directness, would justly have condemned him to punishment which the culprit's odd, and upright, and even-toned self-denunciation rendered it impossible to think of inflicting.
Self-preservation is the primal law after you've dropped the ideals and I thought I had invented a way to hold you down. I might have saved myself the trouble and the lie. It comes down to this, Evan: you are one man against a crooked world, and you haven't had a ghost of a show from the first minute." "You'll have to make it plainer," was the even-toned rejoinder.
"That's good; that's the real thing this time, isn't it?" was the senator's even-toned comment. "Gives you a right nice little chance to shine the way you can shine best." Then: "That was one of the things McVickar wanted you for, wasn't it? speech-making and the like?" "Why, yes; he intimated that there might be some public speaking," admitted the younger man.
Yu seem to be a-scared of yore own guns. Git down on yore dirty knees an' say good an' loud that yu eats dirt! Shout out that yu are too currish to live with decent men," he said, even-toned and distinct, his voice vibrant with passion as he took up his Colts. "Get down!" he repeated, shoving the weapons forward and pulling back the hammers.
"That will be for you and Major Dabney to decide," was the even-toned response. "I would suggest a three-cornered alliance: a third to you, another to Farley, and the remaining third to the Major. The pipe foundry can't run without the furnace and, under present conditions, the furnace is pretty largely dependent on the pipe foundry for its market; and neither could run without the Major's coal."
"Maybe you think you're enough of a to take 'em." "I am a better man than you are," was the even-toned rejoinder. "Prove it, then." Gallagher, leaning from his cab window, fully awake now, and chuckling and rubbing his hands together softly, saw the blow. It was clean-cut, swift as the lightning's flash, true to a finger's breadth, and the sound of it was as bone upon bone.
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