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"Stay where you are," bellowed Barr, mad with rage, "get that ivory off first." "To blazes with your ivory," shouted a grizzled old fireman, "do you think we are going to perish aboard here for such an old skinflint as you?" "Why, if we had time we'd run you up at your own main-gaff you old land-shark," shouted another. "Come on! the boats the boats!" they yelled.
Some of them could walk into the most august councils of the State and say: "Gentlemen, we would like to have this, and that, and matters go thus." But, next to a three years' drought and the boll-worm, the Actual Settler hated the Land-shark.
Well, just such a land-shark was this Ill-pause, who was such an ally and accomplice to Diabolus that he had need for no other. What possible certificate in evil could exceed this that the devil took not any with him when he went out on his worst errand but this same Ill-pause, who was his orator on all his most difficult occasions? Ill-pause was a varlet, then, and he was also an orator.
When Pigtop and myself were left alone, neither the first nor the second nor'-wester of brandy-and-water could arouse him from his sullen mood. He told me frankly, and in his own sea-slang, that he could not disintegrate the idea of a lawyer from that of the devil, and that he was assured that neither I nor my cause would prosper if I permitted the interference of a land-shark.
They were very amiable and they didn't begin to call me a swill-eating land-shark or any other of the pretty names I've heard they are so fond of using. 'We want to keep what is ours, they said. 'Your side will have to start the fight by crossing the line. We shall not!" "Because they know they'll be licked!" put in Pilzer hotly.
"Don't go," said Haco, stoutly, as he struck the table with his fist, causing the crockery to rattle again; "take the advice of an old friend, an' don't go. If you do, he'll do you." "Thank'ee, an' I'd foller yer advice, but I happens to know this land-shark. He's an old acquaintance, an' I can trust him." "Oh, that alters the case well?"
Even now, through the thin disguise of honest-seeming phrases, one can see the bait of the land-shark who speculated in imaginary titles to claims, or sold corner-lots in bubble-towns.
There are few more odd examples of the irony of fate in colonial history than that the man who warred against the convict system, fought the battle of colonial self-government, was ever the enemy of the land-shark and monopolist, who denounced low wages, and whose dream it was that the thrifty, well-paid colonial labourer could and should develop into the prospering farmer, should be railed at in the Colonies as the enemy of the labourer.
"No, boy, not if they have eyes in their heads," cried the Admiral, plucking up courage at the sight of the flashing eyes and brave, defiant face. "We have the letter, and we have your character. We'll weather it yet between them. It's my fault from the beginning for choosing such a land-shark for your consort. God help me, I thought I was finding such an opening for you." "Dear dad!
According to precedent, the Office would be justified in giving it its complement by course and distance, and considering the remainder vacant instead of a mere excess. The Actual Settler was besieging the office with wild protests in re. Having the nose of a pointer and the eye of a hawk for the land-shark, he had observed his myrmidons running the lines upon his ground.
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