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'I have hopes of reducing our circulation. 'What the deuce do you mean? 'In other words, of improving the paper. Runcorn is strong on the side of blackguardism. We had a great fight the other day over a leader offered by Kenyon, a true effusion of the political gutter-snipe. I refused point-blank to let it go in; Runcorn swore that, if I did not, I should go out. I offered to retire that moment.
The moment I had done so, the true nature of the gutter-snipe exhibited itself. He began by cutting flip-flaps and turning windmills all round the room; then, before I could stop him, swept an armful of valuable apparatus from the tables, till the whole floor was strewn with wreck and poisonous solutions. The dismay of the chemist when he returned may be more easily imagined than described.
What about me? I can't do anything but act as a damned blind for the rest of you with this fool store, just because I was born a freak that every gutter-snipe on the street yells at!" Rhoda Gray did not answer. "Well, go on!" snapped the man. "What are you standing there for? One would think you'd never been here before!" Go on! Where? She had not the faintest idea.
"Well, then," resumed Dumoulin, whom surprise had partly sobered, "you may belong to the family of the Counts of Rennepont, after all." "In which case," said Rose-Pompon, laughing, "your father was not a gutter-snipe by trade, but only for the honor of the thing." "No, no worse luck! it was to earn his living," replied Jacques; "but, in his youth, he had been well off.
A couple of the children came in two little girls, with thin, freckled, gutter-snipe faces; their clothes were positively wretched. A while after the landlady herself entered. I asked her where she intended to put me up for the night, and she replied that I could lie in here together with the others, or out in the ante-room on the sofa, as I thought fit.
Henry Greene, a gutter-snipe picked off the streets of London, as the most of the sailors of that day were, went whispering from man to man of the crew that the master's commands to go on ought not to be obeyed. But we must not forget two things when we sit in judgment on Henry Hudson's crew. First, nearly all sailors of that period were unwilling men seized forcibly and put on board.
"Well, then," resumed Dumoulin, whom surprise had partly sobered, "you may belong to the family of the Counts of Rennepont, after all." "In which case," said Rose-Pompon, laughing, "your father was not a gutter-snipe by trade, but only for the honor of the thing." "No, no worse luck! it was to earn his living," replied Jacques; "but, in his youth, he had been well off.
In fact, his position could have been ably filled by the veriest gutter-snipe. And he is the man who one day, in all probability, would have come into control of the Carmody millions! And he would have scattered them in a riot of dissipation the length and breadth of Broadway. "But I have forestalled him.
"Just that. Her name happened to come up, and I didn't mince my words in telling him about her past." "Oh, Jap! Whatever made you do that?" His thin lips curled. "Why shouldn't I? Damn her I hate her, somehow. The upstart the gutter-snipe!" She laid her hand across his mouth. "You shock me, Jap! I don't understand why you are so venomous toward Kate.
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