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Updated: May 7, 2025
The far-off blackness ahead of the ship was like another night seen through the starry night of the earth the starless night of the immensities beyond the created universe, revealed in its appalling stillness through a low fissure in the glittering sphere of which the earth is the kernel. "Whatever there might be about," said Jukes, "we are steaming straight into it."
As he hesitated, not knowing what to do, Tom Totten cleared his throat and turned partly around. "If yez want to know who put us on to that nasty job, I'll tell yez," he began. "It was Ben Stubbles who did it. He gave us the whiskey, an' ordered us to waylay Jake Jukes' hired man an' beat him up. That's God's truth, an' we are all ready to swear to it."
No more would any one claim that the Jukes would not have been immensely improved by education and environment, or that the Edwards family could have maintained its record without education, training, and environment. The facts show that the Jukes first, last, and all the time neglected these advantages, and that the Edwards family, with all its intermarrying, has never neglected them.
And you can't row a hazard about all over the place." "Why not?" The simple question seemed to take Arthur Jukes aback. "Why not?" he repeated. "Why not? Well, you can't. That's why." "There is nothing in the rules," said Ralph Bingham, "against moving a hazard. If a hazard can be moved without disturbing the ball, you are at liberty, I gather, to move it wherever you please.
A look of saturnine determination came into Ralph's face. "He is. He thinks he isn't, but he is." I failed to understand him, and said so. He looked cautiously about the room, as if to reassure himself that he could not be overheard. "I suppose you've noticed," he said, "the disgusting way that man Jukes has been hanging round Miss Trivett, boring her to death?"
Jukes pushed through them brutally. He said nothing, and simply darted in. Another lot of coolies on the ladder, struggling suicidally to break through the battened hatch to a swamped deck, fell off as before, and he disappeared under them like a man overtaken by a landslide. The boatswain yelled excitedly: "Come along. Get the mate out. He'll be trampled to death. Come on."
"We must trust her to go through it and come out on the other side. That's plain and straight. There's no room for Captain Wilson's storm-strategy here." "No, sir." "She will be smothered and swept again for hours," mumbled the Captain. "There's not much left by this time above deck for the sea to take away unless you or me." "Both, sir," whispered Jukes, breathlessly.
Society, led by Messrs. Washington P. Jukes and Themistocles K. Mombasa, six-foot, full-blooded buck niggers, elegantly scented, white-gloved, and arrayed in evening garments of Bond Street cut, danced the newly-imported Cake Walk through its ball-rooms and reception-saloons, with laughter on its reddened lips, and paste imitations of its family jewels in its waved coiffure and on its powdered bosom, and Ruin in its heart.
They have represented the United States at several foreign courts; several have been members of congress; three have been United States senators, and one vice-president of the United States. The Jukes lacked the physical and moral courage, as well as the patriotic purpose, to enlist, but there were seventy-five officers in the army and navy from the family of Mr. Edwards.
He's seen a swimmin' picture of hand-painted palaces, and noble jukes, and stately dames out on the Nogal flats every day for eight years. That ain't lyin' that's imagination. "Now this feller's imagination is just about ripe. Usual, at the end of about seven years, a sheepherder goes plumb dotty, and we either have to shoot him, or send him to Leavenworth.
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