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"No," he muttered, "what will she care for a poor ex-con? No, I'm down and out," he went on to Bunker, "and she'll hear about it, anyhow. It's too late now to pretend I'm a gentleman my number has burned in like a brand. All these other prisoners know me and they'll turn me up anywhere; if I go to the China Coast one of 'em would show up, sooner or later, and bawl me out for a convict.
They call me an ex-con now." "No, but Denver," she entreated, "surely you didn't think why, we asked you to come and stay with us." "Yes, I know," he said but the sullen look had come back; he could not forget so soon. "I know," he went on, "but it wouldn't be right I guess we've made a mistake. I wanted to see you, Drusilla; I gave everything I had, just to get here before you went "
He was a huge, illiterate brute, an ex-Chesapeake-Bay-oyster-pirate, an "ex-con" who had done five years in Sing Sing, and a general all-around stupidly carnivorous beast. He used to trap sparrows that flew into our hall through the open bars. When he made a capture, he hurried away with it into his cell, where I have seen him crunching bones and spitting out feathers as he bolted it raw.
Birdie Callahan always said that Minnie was working only to wear out her old clothes. After the introduction Miss Wenzel followed Jo Haley into the lobby. She took no pains to lower her voice. "Well I must say, Mr. Haley, you've got a fine nerve! If my gentleman friend was to hear of my working with an ex-con I wouldn't be surprised if he'd break off the engagement.
A pardon would remove the taint of dishonor and restore him to honest citizenship; but a paroled man was known for an ex-con everywhere he might as well be back in the road-gang.
"Am I to understand, Jo Haley, that you dare to accuse me of taking your filthy money, instead of that miserable ex-con there who has done time?" "That'll do, Minnie," said Jo Haley, gently. "That's a-plenty." "Prove it," went on Minnie, and then looked as though she wished she hadn't. "A business college edjication is a grand foine thing," observed Birdie. "Miss Wenzel is a graduate av wan.
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