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You want me to throw the hooks into Jim for a goil I never set me peepers on. I wisht I had your crust." "You wouldn't let Durand spoil her life if you could stop it." "Wouldn't I? Hmp! Soft-soap stuff. Well, what's my cue? Where do I come in on this rescue-the-be-eutiful heroine act?" "When did you see 'Slim' Jim last?"
Would it mind lifting a ladder for a poor woiking goil?" The day he knew that the house was home was the languorous spring day when he stopped to stare at a bowl of strawberries in the niche outside his door. Their purchase had driven Janet almost to drink. She plainly told Felice they'd all end in the poorhouse.
Having crossed the Clyde, alive with innumerable vessels, its waves dancing and sparkling in the sunlight, we suddenly shot into the still and solemn Loch Goil, whose waters, dark with mountain shadows, seemed almost to belong to a different element from that of the yellow, rushing, ship-laden river we had left.
Even my leetle goil, she goes oud to buy me a cigar von day, and she ask de man dot sells de cigar to buy somet'ing from papa. He vants some boys' shoes. I haf none. She goes across de streedt and buys a pair und sells dem for a tollar feefty-five cents brofit. I gif my leetle goil a neeckle and I keep de feefty cents. Dots de vay it goes. I could not do dot eef I leefed on Cap'tol 'ell.
If half those yarns were true he must be a wealthy man by now. We shall hear of him running for mayor one of these days." "Say, Mr. Chames, wasn't youse struck on de goil?" "What girl?" said Jimmy quietly. "Old man McEachern's goil, Molly. Dey used to say dat youse was her steady." "If you don't mind, Spike, friend of my youth, we'll cut out that," said Jimmy.
I haf money and eef I ged the ride boy for my goil, I vill set him op in peezness. Dot's somet'ing for you to vork for annodder cost'mer, said he the instinct would crop out. "Well, sir, I've got to make this story short," said Johnny, pulling out his watch. "I found the boy. He was a good, clean-cut young fellow, too, and you know the rest." "You bet your life I do," said Sam.
And in Yiddish and in Hebrew and Russian and American, Greesheimer expressed himself as he strode swiftly up and down. For seven years without a break he had "kept a goil" more fascinating to his taste than any female in New York. Her name was Sadie, she was a model in a dressmaker's shop uptown, and she owned him body and soul.
'Say, said he, 'who vass dot yong feller in the room here a few minutes ago? He referred to a young friend of mine who had chanced to drop in. I vant her to get married pretty soon now. She iss a nice goil, too. "'No, that vont vork.
"How dare you, sir?" he exclaimed. "Take your hands off my wife." The man's bravado was splendid, and even the diners were impressed. Most of them laughed, for to them it was only another drunken woman, a familiar and excruciatingly funny object to most of them. "Aw, let the goil alone," cried one red-faced man who sat with a small, heavily rouged girl of about sixteen.
"A gay burlesquer?" "Sure champagne goil and gay burlesquer." "A champagne girl!" "Dat's what I said." "You mean that she is upon the stage?" "Sure dat's it!" "Oh!" Mr. Tutt looked relieved. "What had you and Miss Malone been doing that afternoon?" "I told yer walkin'." Mr. Tutt coughed slightly. "Is that all?" "Say, watcha drivin' at?" Mr. Tutt elevated his bushy eyebrows.
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