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"Ryder misusing," spelled the cord. Bates seized his companion by the arm, and leaned close to him. "By the Lord!" he whispered breathlessly, "I wonder if they're going to smash the Gotham Trust!" "Refuse clearing," spelled Rodney; and Montague felt Bates's hand trembling. "They refuse to clear for Ryder!" he panted. Montague was beyond all speech; he sat as if turned to stone.
As he wrought, nothing had the air of espionage merely of care; and so I think, Wych Hazel liked it, and felt all the more free for all sorts of undertakings, secured against consequences. Sometimes, indeed, his quick insight was so astonishing to the young mischief-maker, that she was ready to cry out treachery! and the suspected person in this case was always Gotham.
Bordine, this is my old friend from Newport, Silas Keene. You may have heard me mention his name." "Yes. I have read of him as well. I am happy to clasp the hand of the most noted detective of Gotham." This was no flattery. Silas Keene was not a secondary man. He was first in everything pertaining to matters criminal.
When they meet with people, like those horrid Wise Men of Gotham, who prefer their own shipwrecks, they go into a decline." His eyes filled with tears, and Miss Muffet was sure that he was one of the most sympathetic men in the world. "Now I had a great advantage," he went on; "I never had a shipwreck of my own, so that I could not be reminded of something that would make me interrupt.
He could not only with a straight face, but with a kindling eye inveigh against the perils of New York fashionable life, and express gratification that no son or daughter of his had wandered so far from the fold. It distressed him to think that Florence should be casting sheep's eyes at the flesh-pots of Gotham, and so failing to appreciate the blessings and safety of a quiet American home.
And there he remained, as we went our way, a modern Spartan slave in a kind of marine pillory, conveying to the red-legged children of Gotham, as they toddled ashore, a useful lesson on the doubtful relations existing between whiskey and pleasure. "In the name of the Prophet: Figs!" "Eh, bien, Sare! wiz you Field and ze uzzers!
A small, cheerful-looking human Village, in its Island among the Woods; you see it lying to the right: a clean brick-slate congeries, with faint smoke-canopy hanging over it, indicating frugal dinner-kettles on the simmer; and you remember kindly those good old grinnings, over good SCHILTBURGER, good WISE MEN OF GOTHAM, and their learned Chroniclers, and unlearned Peasant Producers, who have contributed a wrinkle of human Fun to the earnest face of Life.
There were as many people out as usual, but they were hurrying to their destinations, even the languid creole beauty, all lace and alabaster, moved with the sprightliness of a maid of Gotham.
But because England would not wait her turn, she is overwhelmed with accusations of treachery and inhumanity by a sincerely indignant Germany. Could stupidity, the stupidity of the wise men of Gotham, be more fantastic or more monstrous? German stupidity was even more monstrous. A part of the accusation against England is that she has raised her hand against the nation nearest to her in blood.
Allen was thought to be in the days when he was paraded as 'the wickedest man in New York, and what Harry Hill was thought to be in the days when the good old deacons from the West used to frequent his dance hall, Billy McGlory is in New York to-day. The. Allen and Harry Hill are both alive, but Billy McGlory bears off the palm of wickedness amid the wickedest of Gotham.
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