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The Indian only pointed to the big ball of dough flattened out like a gigantic pancake and ready for the skillet. There upon Roy seized the handle of his frying pan, shifted the skillet to one side and, resting it on the snow, began to flip the bits of salt pork onto the snow floor. "Here, what are you doing?" shouted Norman. "You don't eat those scraps," announced Roy positively.
The paternal Fairley, once convinced that his daughter's new companion required no pecuniary or material assistance from his hands, relaxed to the extent of entering into a querulous confidence with him, during which Flip took the opportunity of slipping away.
By this time Sonora had recovered from his astonishment. After giving vent to a grunt expressive of his contempt, he blurted out: "That fellow's too flip!" But the idea had taken hold of the Girl, though she temporised shyly: "Oh, I dunno! Makes me feel kind o' foolish, you know, kind o' retirin' like a elk in summer." Johnson smiled in spite of himself.
Indeed, when a man meets the paraphernalia of a higher grade of Egbo than that to which he belongs, he has to act as if he were lame, and limp along past it humbly, as if the sight of it had taken all the strength out of him, and, needless to remark, higher grade debtors flip their fingers at lower grade creditors.
The silence was so profound that Tom could hear his heart beat. "This meeting stands adjourned to three o'clock," said the moderator, and the great crowd thereupon surged into the streets. Some went to the Cromwell's Head; others to the Bunch of Grapes, White Lamb, Tun and Bacchus, drank mugs of flip, and warmed themselves by the bright wood-fires blazing on the hearths.
"Aunt Eunice doesn't want you to know," he said, turning away from the glass, razor in hand, to look at her intently. "But you're a big girl, Flip nearly as tall as she is, if you are only fifteen. You're bound to hear it sometime, and in my opinion it would be better for you to hear it from me than to have it knock you flat coming unexpectedly from a stranger, as I heard it."
The new fellow, who watched the proceedings with great interest, now stretched out his hand, and taking the glass held it up level with the victim's neck. A moment later there was a yell. "Who made that noise?" "Please, sir, somebody burnt my neck!" "Burnt your neck! What boy has been burning Pilson's neck?" The new-comer raised his hand and gave a flip with his thumb and finger.
Johnny Challan was explaining to his companions exactly how the game was played. "It's a case of keep your eye on the card, I should think," said big Tim Nolan. "If you got a quick enough eye to see him flip the card around, you ought to be able to pick her." "That's what this sport said," agreed Challan. "'Your eye agin my hand, says he." "Well, I'd like to take a try at her," mused Tim.
Long ago he had decided how to spend his first surplus five dollars if it came in time. It should go as a happy surprise to Flip on her sixteenth birthday. It had come in time. Her birthday was on the twenty-first of the month. At first he thought he could not wait three long weeks before sending it.
Mebbee I may have my secrets, too eh?" he said, with dark significance, at the same time administering a significant nudge to Lance, which kept up the young man's exasperation. "No, she'll rest yer a bit just now. I'll set her to watchin' suthin' else, like as not, when I want her." Flip fell into one of her suggestive silences.
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