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Updated: May 22, 2025
But before they left the stable he offered carelessly: 'What do you think of the professor, Barbee? And Barbee answered joyously: 'He's a reg'lar ring-tailed old he-devil, Al. He winked brightly. 'One of these days him and me is going to drift down to Tres Pinos. And, say, won't the town know about us? 'What do you mean? demanded Howard sharply. Barbee considered him a thoughtful moment.
It's one thing to pull a gun on a bunch of river rats, and another on a man like Garman. I don't want any shooting round here." "Neither do I." "Then never make a gun move with Garman round. You can't beat a man like him with a gun." "No, I'll say he's a real he-devil." "I'm here on a business proposition. It's a question of brains, not guns, in a fight with Garman."
He's a regular Jonathan Wild in nigger-dealing; his name's like a fiery dragon among the niggers all over the South; and I hearn our skipper say once when I sailed in a liner, that niggers in Charleston were so 'fraid of him they'd run, like young scorpions away from an old he-devil, when they saw him coming.
Lindsay's she-devil of a wife that did it; and it was her he-devil of a son, Harry Woodward, that ruined Granua Davoren. My mother happened to say that she was a heartless and tyrannical woman, that she had the Evil Eye, and that a devil, under the name of Shan-dhinne-dhuv, belonged to her family, and put her up to every kind of wickedness.
Well, me an' Bart's been chewing over your proposition to buy out our interest in them two Chinks, an' as the upshot of our talk we made up our minds to sell, but not for no measly little five bucks' profit. Now, Scraggsy, you old he-devil, on your honour as between shipmates, you got to admit five dollars ain't hardly worth considerin'. Come down to earth now.
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