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Updated: August 25, 2024
It was, nevertheless, that sort of thing that lent the inspiration which in the end made the old Bend go. It was when, in the midst of the discussion, they showed me a check for three cents, hung up and framed in the Comptroller's office as a kind of red-tape joss for the clerks to kow-tow to, I suppose. They were part of the system it glorified.
He decided to tell her it would be wiser to keep away; but when he did so, she merely laughed. There was a defiant recklessness in her tone when she said: "Do you think I need a chaperone? Must one, even in this desolate place, kow-tow to the conventions devised to prop up the weak and untrustworthy? If Jim can't trust me, I may as well learn it now as any other time.
We have made no appointments after 3, Your Majesty." "Then put down the punitive expedition for 3:15," said the war lord, twisting his mustache in front of his eyes. "I propose to have this whole nation kow-tow before me in unison before I leave their miserable land. Take the necessary measures at once for the ceremony.
Is it vice and fraud to hire lawyers and experts and try to win back my own mine? What do you want me to do go and kow-tow to Stoddard and ask him to please step on my neck?" "No, I want you to do what you're going to do spend the Company's money, and lose. That money is part mine, but I'll be glad to part with it if it will cure you of being such a fool."
Inspired by these honourable sentiments, therefore, I at once prostrated myself on the ground, and, amid a silence of really illimitable expectation, I began to kow-tow repeatedly with ceremonious precision. At this display of charitable broadmindedness an approving shout went up on all sides.
He lets me see plainly that he prefers their society to mine. I don't wonder. They can flatter him and kow-tow to him, and I cannot. He can be a little god to them; and he must know what he is to me. We haven't a thought in common not a feeling and he cannot bear to feel himself inferior. As for me if I've married beneath me, I must pay the penalty."
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