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Like the trained reporter that he was, Guys followed a battle, recording the salient incidents of the engagement, not overemphasising the ghastliness of the carnage, as did Callot or Goya or Raffet, but telling the truth as he saw it, with a phlegm more British and German than French.
"I mean to say, do you expect me to believe you when you say you relish being arrested?" "I don't care a whoop whether you believe it or not. It's true." "Have you no fear of the law?" "Bless your heart, sir, I don't know how I'd keep body and soul together if it wasn't for the law. If people would only let the law alone, I'd be one of the happiest guys on earth.
If I got to fight I want to hop to it, not set round in the shade o' the shelterin' palm while them guys are heatin' up the stewpot. This waitin' stuff gits my goat." "You might sing us a song, senhor, to pass the time," Pedro suggested, with a tight-lipped smile. "Say, I'll do that, jest to show these guys I don't give a rip.
"A mission stiff," repeated the other. "One of the guys that gets repentance!" Samuel experienced a sudden chilling of the ardor with which he had come into the room. The old grin was upon the other's face; and the boy realized with a sudden sinking of the heart how hard and savage he was. Finnegan was a babe in arms compared with Charlie Swift.
Well, he's been a cost t' me git that, Mister Maloney? T' me! A poor man! I've fed him, and give him a place t' sleep instead of takin' in roomers, like the rest of the guys do in this buildin'." Again the man looked about him. "Roomers?" he repeated. "Why, there's no ventilation here, and you get no sun. This flat is unfit to live in!"
"Your habit of omitting essentials, Comrade Maloney, is going to undo you one of these days. When you get to that ranch of yours, you will probably start out to gallop after the cattle without remembering to mount your mustang. There are four million guys in New York. Which section is it that is coming?" "Gum! I don't know how many dere is ob dem. I seen Spider Reilly an' Jack Repetto an' "
He glanced at the woman, who had ceased crying, and stood surveying the wreckage with the calmness, the philosophic nonchalance of a class that comes to look upon misfortune as inevitable. "They didn't do a thing to this place, did they?" was her comment. "There was two guys in here to-night who got a notion they were funny."
And the American scientists were right out there in front, along with guys from England and France and Italy and Germany and even Russia. All the big brains of the world were workin' on it! Those Martians were gonna wish they'd come visitin' polite instead of barging in like they owned the world! They'd be lucky if they wound up ownin' Mars!
The benches at the two long tables were filled with infantry men who looked at him angrily. Noticing suddenly that he had no support, he moderated his voice. "The infantry's damn necessary, I'll admit that; but where'd you fellers be without us guys to string the barbed wire for you?" "There warn't no barbed wire strung in the Oregon forest where we was, boy.
Being in the larboard watch, my duty was forward, to assist in setting up the martingale. Three of us were out on the martingale guys and back-ropes for more than half an hour, carrying out, hooking and unhooking the tackles, several times buried in the seas, until the mate ordered us in, from fear of our being washed off.
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