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His decent gray suit, made by Nat Hicks of Gopher Prairie, might have been of sheet iron; it had no distinction of cut, no easy grace like the diplomat's Burberry. His black shoes were blunt and not well polished. His scarf was a stupid brown. He needed a shave. But she forgot her doubt as she realized the ingenuities of the room.
The least he had anticipated was three months in hospital, and so grateful was he to Hicks and Flaherty for their great forbearance that he strangled a resolve to "lay" for Hicks and Flaherty and thrash them individually something he was fully able to do and forgot his aches and pains in a lively interest as to the fate of Captain Scraggs at the hands of the towboat men.
Crushed and mystified, the widower whispered to those interested with himself in his wife's estate; and so, before the reading of the will, there slowly grew a very deep suspicion and hearty hatred of Clement Hicks. None had considered him in connection with Mrs.
From this time, within the narrow bounds that brought them all necessarily together in some sort, Hicks abolished himself as nearly as possible. He chose often to join the second mate at meals, which Mr. Mason, in accordance with the discipline of the ship, took apart both from the crew and his superior officers.
Hicks looked covetously at the bills, but he demurred: "You mean we're after them two again!" "Hicks, we must be after them because one of them will soon be after us." "Where they goin' now?" "Rockvale, Montana. That is, the girl's going. What I haven't found out yet is whether Harry goes, too. If he stays here, I'll stay, and you'll go West." "After Pauline?" "Ahead of her!" "And then what?"
Staniford had a mind to call him back, and ask him what he meant; but he refrained, and he went to bed at last resolved to unburden himself of the whole Hicks business once for all. He felt that he had had quite enough of it, both in the abstract and in its relation to Lydia. Hicks did not join the others at breakfast.
And if Hicks and Hicks should sell out or go into bankruptcy the salesman will have won for his own house a steady customer of great value. In the Sleeping Car. The wise traveling man and our salesman is wise always engages sleeping accommodations on the train in advance. This time he has the lower berth in No. 9.
I went over this morning and every professor was right side up with care where he belonged. And, moreover, you must not call an election a fool because it doesn't do what you want it to. It can't help itself." "Miss Hicks," says I, feeling like a fly in an acre of web, "I am a plain and simple man and not handy with my tongue.
As I had done everything I could for the poor fellows' comfort, on the march; they had come to like me, and to obey my orders as promptly as those of their former commander. "As long as the other two sides of the square stood firm, I did so; but they soon gave way. I saw Hicks, with his staff, charge into the midst of the Dervishes, and then lost sight of them.
Suddenly the silence was broken by the Registrar, who began to read the declarations. "I hereby declare that I, James Hicks, know of no impediment whereby I may not be joined in matrimony with Matilde, Matilde is it Matilde or Matilda?"
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