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Roger returned the look steadily; and by the flickering mockery in Garman's eyes he knew that it was Garman's ring that gleamed on Annette's finger. "I was just thanking Senator Fairclothe for influencing me in the purchase of land down here," said Roger deliberately. "If it hadn't been for him, Garman, I wouldn't be here now." "If that is so," returned Garman, "we must thank him, too.
"By the great smoked fish, he'll make a live of it!" jubilated Higgins. "And the man who did it don't care who he is is one son of a she-skunk, net." Garman, after his morsel of broiled venison, was lighting a large, brown cigar, moving the match round and round the tip to make sure it burned evenly.
There are three kinds of hearses, so that one has the option of driving to the churchyard just as one travels by rail in a first, second, or third class carriage. Unless, indeed, one manages to quit life in such an abject state of poverty, that one has to get one's self carried on foot by one's friends. Consul Garman drove first class, in a carriage adorned with angels' heads and silver trappings.
His wife took the same side from conviction, and Richard Garman from mischief, while the Consul was impartial. He set the greatest store by the good old times, but still he could not help thinking that they might get on with a little less of the stick than he had experienced. Johnsen was very strong on the importance of religious instruction and home influence.
Well, a dentist does the same good turn for a woman; it makes her pass for several years younger; and helps her looks, mends her voice, and makes her as smart as a three year old. "What's that? It's music. Well, that's artificial too, it's scientific they say, it's done by rule. Jist look at that gall to the piany: first comes a little Garman thunder.
Mebbe get a chance to even up with Garman." Roger selected a high spoil bank near the center of the muck land as his post. From there he could see any one who approached from the river or from the cypress swamp. Blease took up a hidden position in the elderberry jungle, from which he could cover the open prairie toward Garman's, and Higgins secreted himself in the palmetto scrub of Flower Prairie.
We've got the rookery, got twenty good men hidden there; they'll never shoot there again; and the rest of the men are after the gang in the cypress swamp. We lost out last night; but I think Garman's egret graft is broken up for good." "Garman? Is he in that, too?" Davis smiled. "Payne, do you know anything round here that Garman isn't in? He's boss of the egret graft down here."
"My dear Rachel!" interrupted Mrs. Garman. Rachel's eccentricities really exceeded all bounds. "Is that your opinion?" repeated Rachel, with the severity of a judge condemning a criminal. Johnsen raised his head nervously and looked at her. "Allow me to explain, Miss Garman," he began.
Garman usually preferred one of the airy rooms upstairs. She was a very fat lady, who lived in a continual state of strife with dyspepsia. From whatever side you looked at her, she presented a succession of smoothly rounded curves covered with shining black silk. It was wonderful that Mrs. Garman got so stout; it must have been, as she herself said, "a cross" she had to bear.
"Who said I had gone away?" "They all said so." "Garman?" A blush suffused the clear skin of her cheeks; and as she looked away a sensation of dread crept round Roger's heart. "Never mind," he said. "Never mind who said it; I'm still here; and I'm going to remain." "You found your land?" "Yes." "It was not as represented, was it?" she asked slowly. "Oh, that!" he said carelessly.
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