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But this sudden onslaught upon Mamie, innocent Mamie who had done nothing to anybody, scattered his embarrassment and filled him with much the same spirit which sent bantam-weight knights up against heavy-weight dragons in the Middle Ages. He felt inspired. "Nix on the 'abandoned creature," he said with dignity. "You're on the wrong wire! This here lady is my affianced wife!"
"Cheer up, Greg!" urged Dick, whose own lace was again flushing. "You've got chest expansion enough for a heavy-weight prize fighter." "You must have the same, then. Is that so?" demanded Holmes. "What makes your face so red?" "Just wondering," admitted Prescott, in a low voice, "whether I ever contracted any symptoms of football-player's heart." "Bosh!" muttered Greg.
"You have me a little outclassed; about seventeen stone, I should take it; barely turn thirteen, myself. However," tossing his coat in the corner, "you look a little soft; hardly up to what you were when you got the belt for the heavy-weight championship. Do you remember? The 'Frisco Pet went against you; but he was only a low, ignorant sailor and had let himself get out of form.
"An' pray who are you?" returned Stoker, in a tone that was meant to be witheringly sarcastic. "I am one who likes fair play," said Charlie, restraining his anger, for he was still anxious to throw oil on the troubled waters, "and if you call it fair play for a heavy-weight like you to attack such a light-weight as Zook, you must have forgotten somehow that you are an Englishman.
Just then the Admiral, warming to his theme, pushed back his chair a few inches. . . . For some days previously a stream of traction-engines had passed along the high road, dragging timber-wagons, tent-wagons, machinery, exhibits of all kinds, towards the Tregarrick Show. The Admiral was a heavy-weight. He rode, in those days, at close upon seventeen stone.
There was no roped-off space, but only an imaginary "ring," which was, as usual, a square of about twenty-four feet each way. Jaynes was just barely qualified as a heavy-weight, being only a trifle over one hundred and fifty-eight pounds. But he overshadowed little Bobbles as the giants overshadowed Jack the Giant-killer.
"Quincy," said Tom, "you go along with the young lady, and I'll settle my account after you're gone. You look a little white around the gills. You had no right to fight a heavy-weight like him." "I wish to thank you both," said Mary, "but I'm a stranger in this town I have lived here only a few months, and I don't know your names." She blushed prettily and the lids modestly covered the blue eyes.
"Not but what I ain't strong for Stub Mears myself. He's all right, Stub is, even if he never could qualify in a beauty competition with Jack Pickford or Mr. Doug. Fairbanks. He's good comp'ny and all that, and now he's in the army I expect he'll ditch that ambition of his to be the champion heavy-weight pool player of the West Side. "But to hear Mrs.
He often regretted that his inherited money had robbed him of a career as a heavy-weight. He was not so big as Dyckman, but he had made fools of bigger men. He felt that the odds were a trifle in his favor, especially if Dyckman were angry, as he must be to go roaring about town frightening one silly woman for another's sake. He would have preferred not to fight in the club.
A sanguinary heavy-weight encounter was followed by the first bout of the feathers and the second of the light-weights, and then it was Allen's turn to fight the Harrow representative. It was not a very exciting bout. Allen took things very easily.
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