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"If she'll let me," says he. "Got the fifty thousand invested yet?" says I. "No," says he, droppin' his chin guilty, "I ain't. And I expect Cap'n Bill will call me an old fool. But I couldn't jest seem to find the right thing to put it into. So I'm goin' to stop at Wiscasset and leave it at the bank and git 'em to buy me some gover'ment bonds or something.
He then counted the seats and said, "Do you count the teacher?" The men discussed this point, then decided, "Maybe ye better; he uses more wind than any of them. Ha, ha!" Yan made a few figures on paper, then said, "Twenty feet, rather better." "Luk at thot," said Raften in a voice of bullying and triumph; "jest agrees with the Gover'ment Inspector. I towld ye he could.
"But de English Gover'ment hafe taken up de opium trate as a means dat shall open up China, and she shall not allow dat ve " "Nucingen has cut him out with the Government," remarked du Tillet to Blondet. "Ah! you have been in the opium trade!" cried Madame du Val-Noble. "Now I understand why you are so narcotic; some has stuck in your soul."
He can't, howsomever, git back to his insurrectos; the blame Gover'ment being in possession of all the trails leadin' into the hinterland; so says he, 'What for a game would it be for me to hyke up to 'Frisco an' git in touch with my financial backers an' conspirate to smuggle down a load o' arms? Which the same he does, and there's where the Three Black Crows an' me begin to take a hand.
"Jedge, my granddaddy an' my daddy didn't have to make no sich promises to the gover'ment they help to save." The Judge walked up and down the room. "Captain, I haven't the heart to send him to prison I cannot. And Mr. Starbuck, if the marshal does not see you, walk out." "Judge," the marshal spoke up, turning his back, "my old eyes are so bad I can't see anything."
"We didn't want the folk to notice us as law officers, being so short-handed, sir; so we pushed our Gover'ment staves up this water-pipe. "Out with 'em, and come along, for Heaven's sake! Ah, here's Mr. Blowbody; that's lucky." "Well, what's the row?" said Blowbody. "Got their names hey?" "No. Now," said Grower to one of the constables, "you go with Mr.
"Say, I never knowed a gover'ment was so much like angels before. The things what the gover'ment's done for this country, judging by the way Fixem told it, is enough to make people want to keep 'em in for ever. My Pa says it's mostly guff, but the pollertishans has gotter feed the people with that kinder guff ev'ry once in a while, he says, they get fat on it, he says.
" Being a few private friends I've asked in to keep up club-walking at my own expense," the landlady exclaimed at the sound of footsteps, as glibly as a child repeating the Catechism, while she peered over the stairs. "Oh, 'tis you, Mrs Durbeyfield Lard how you frightened me! I thought it might be some gaffer sent by Gover'ment."
'As I was saying at first, I don't lug much money around with me to sech places as this here, but what little I've got ain't quite divided up enough to be handy; I don't mind gettin' a fifty into new Gover'ment greenbacks myself. My wife 'n' me are countin' on stayin' on here a consid'able of a spell, maybe, an' small change is handiest.
And he says something about not stooping to bribe any man to cast a vote for the gover'ment by promising to find work for him, but there's a big programme of gover'ment works to be done in the neighbourhood, which, of course, will help to make good times, he says.
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