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Updated: May 16, 2025
"What-all do you think of Mister Collars-and-Cuffs by this time?" Bradford took a leisurely minute to whittle a chewing cube from his pocket plug of hard-times tobacco. "Well, first dash out o' the box, I allowed he was some locoed; he jumped me like a jack-rabbit for takin' a clearance right under Jim Carter's nose that-a-way.
But as old Hard-Times Brewster used to say, 'We are all poor, queer critters and some be queerer than the others! So you were a little queerer than your father, eh, and tried to square matters by a worse piece of folly?" "It may have been folly. Perhaps it was. But I did not stop to argue or reason. That money had been spent on me. I accepted the blame. I said nothing to my father.
She went on quickly with a tinge of light bitterness in her voice: "I'm sure it must be business, for there's a hard-times atmosphere hanging over the house, all of a sudden, and mamma is constantly remarking that there's a limit to my extravagance, etc., etc. She and I happen to be on dreadfully formal terms just at present, which is another of the joys of home.
And how did that explain the proposed journey? Dudley went on: "I've only just got time to change my clothes and make myself decent. See you in a day or two. Sorry I can't stay and have a pipe with you and one of our 'hard-times' suppers." He was on the point of disappearing into the inner room, when Max stopped him. "Oh, but you can," said he.
"Yes," admitted Bobby, "I've heard something of all this hard-times talk. I know Nick Allstyne sold his French racer, and Nick's supposed to be worth no end of money." "Exactly," agreed Mr. Trimmer dryly. "This sixty thousand dollars' worth of stock, Mr.
Let us see what equality and hard-times can effect for the mental health of a brain-sick young British lord. Going to renounce his lordship and be a man! Yas!" COLONEL MULBERRY SELLERS this was some days before he wrote his letter to Lord Rossmore was seated in his "library," which was also his "drawing-room" and was also his "picture gallery" and likewise his "work-shop."
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