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Updated: May 4, 2025
"You're a brick, sir! Sit down a minute, will you? I want to talk to you." The doctor complied, his hand on the wounded man's wrist. "That's better," Ford said. "Keep it there. And stop me if I rave. It's a queer little world, isn't it? I remember you well, but you wouldn't know me. You were one of the highfliers, and I was always more or less of an earthworm.
We get the highfliers from Cuba and Mexico and the couple of Americas farther south; and they've simply got the boodle to bombard every bulfinch in the bush with. "When we got to the hotel, Denver stops me at the door. "'There's a little liver-coloured man, says he, 'sitting in a big leather chair to your right, inside.
"Company!" said Fleda. "Yes, and it's ungrateful in you to say so," said Barby; "for she's been in a wonderful hurry to see you, or to get somethin' to eat I don't know which; a little o' both, I hope in charity." "Why didn't you give her something to eat? Who is it?" "I don't know who it is! It's one of your highfliers, that's all I can make out.
"I figure out that she was the mistress of one of our rich highfliers, and that when he got tired of her he pensioned her off, and she made up her mind to reform on account of the kid, and went back to Rouen, and proceeded to identify herself with her class by growing old and shapeless as quickly as possible.
"Company!! " said Fleda. "Yes, and it's ungrateful in you to say so," said Barby, "for she's been in a wonderful hurry to see you, or to get somethin' to eat; I don't know which; a little o' both, I hope in charity." "Why didn't you give her something to eat? Who is it?" "I don't know who it is! It's one of your highfliers, that's all I can make out.
Even after he had given up the fight, he continued to revenge himself upon his wife for his defeat. "We've got to have a set of gold spoons, I guess. These will never do for highfliers like us." Or, "Drop in at Swillem's and send home a few dozen champagne; I can't stummick such common drink as coffee for breakfast." Or, "I must fix up and make some calls on Algonkin Av'noo.
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