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Those who are marking time around the obscure fanatic are growling, "He's not only bad, he's mad, the dirty beast!" "It's disgraceful," says the young curate. Brisbille goes up to him. "You tell me, then, you, what'll happen very soon Jesuit, puppet, land-shark! We know you, you and your filthy, poisonous trade!" "Say that again!" It was I who said that.
It was nearly three months after the rains had washed the last dead flower-petals from the mound above little Georgia when the "land-shark" firm of Hamlin and Avery filed papers upon what they considered the "fattest" vacancy of the year. It should not be supposed that all who were termed "land-sharks" deserved the name. Many of them were reputable men of good business character.
The land-shark charges in this exorbitant way for the risk he runs of not being able to get anything, so he has nothing to complain of when he happens to come across a captain who is disposed to protect his seamen from such extortion. Knowing the villains well, I did not permit them to impose upon me. Thursday, September 24th. Waiting for the chance of getting over my deserters from Cape Town.
From the description he had been given of the place he knew money was to be spent there, and he had no cash to spare. "I I guess not," he faltered. "Why not?" "I well, to tell the truth, I haven't much to spend." The old tar slapped the boy heartily on the shoulder. "Don't worry about that!" he cried. "I'm no land-shark. This trip shan't cost you a cent. Come on." And Richard followed.
Now, hark ye, dog of a land-shark; you are as surely a dead man as though you were laid out with the tapers burning. See here' he lifted a torch, and showed by its red light a great crack in the floor across the far end of the cave 'you can judge of the Black Drop's depth! he said, raising an empty keg and tossing it over into the yawning gulf.
"I donno as I've ever said it to you, but I've al'ays said it to close friends," stated the Cap'n, earnestly, "that there are only three things on earth I'm afraid of, and them are: pneumony, bein' struck by lightnin', and havin' a land-shark git the law on me. There ain't us'ly no help for ye." He sighed and smoked reflectively. Then his face hardened.
Let us say for Plausaby that, land-shark as he was, he was not vindictive, he was not without generosity, and that it gave him sincere pleasure to do a kindness to his step-son, particularly when his generous impulse coincided so exactly with his own interest in the matter.
The Denny survey fronts three miles on the Chiquito." "It is claimed," continued the commissioner, "that it fails to reach the river by as much as a mile." The appraiser shrugged his shoulder. He was by birth and instinct an Actual Settler, and the natural foe of the land-shark. "It has always been considered to extend to the river," he said, dryly.
"Well, then," resumed Jack, "then we shall see another blaze, at least afore we die; but he's an odd fish one of Davy Jones's sort." "I don't care about that; he may be anything he likes; but Admiral Bell ain't a-going to have his nephew burned and eaten, and sucked like I don't know what, by a vampyre, or by any other confounded land-shark."
"My heart is in this business, for my mind was half made up, at first sight, to own this spot myself by honest purchase, you'll understand me, and not by any of your land-shark tricks and, such being the case, you can easily think I'm not inclined to let this Mr. Tassel have it,"
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