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"Quick, Jud!" he pleaded hotly. "Don't be a fool!" "All right! We'll take it!" answered Smith. "No!" said Larkin firmly, pulling his horse around between Huntington and the two partners. "Yes!" the two cried out together. Huntington stepped forward, and thrust both handfuls of bills almost into Larkin's face. "Name your price then!" he bellowed.
Larkin's steps; didn't you know it was wrong?" Annette stood silent looking like a guilty culprit. "Why don't you answer me; what makes you behave so bad?" "I don't know, grandma, I 'specs I did it for the devil. The preacher said the devil makes people do bad things."
A lavender note, with huge monogram and written in white ink, stated that some of the girls of the "Gay Burlesque Troupe" sent a few dimes to the "kid's" mother. The few dimes amounted to fifteen dollars. Mrs. Van Larkin's coachman had to wait with her note while Lucy answered the questions of a lame old negro who had brought a quarter.
General Smith and his aide, Captain Gibbs, went to Larkin's house, and I was at my old rooms at Dona Augustias. As we intended to go back to San Francisco by land and afterward to travel a good deal, General Smith gave me the necessary authority to fit out the party.
I think it was Lawyer Larkin's private canon, in his dealings with men, that everything was moral that was not contrary to an Act of Parliament. For a month and three days Mr. Jos. Larkin was left to ruminate without any new light upon the dusky landscape now constantly before his eyes. At the end of that time a foreign letter came for him to the Lodge.
But if they knew that they would be subjected to a sifting examination on oath, on the arrival of the commissioner, they might possibly prefer finding the letter, in which case there would be no more about it. Mr. The people of Gylingden knew very well that, when the rat-like glitter twinkled in Mr. Larkin's eyes, and the shadow came over his long face, there was mischief brewing.
In a few days he moved on shore, took up his quarters at Larkin's house, and established his headquarters, with Captain Turner as his adjutant general.
You're a stranger here, and we want some one who knows the city, Dewslake," he returned to the receiving teller, "who's taken Larkin's place?" "No one yet," returned the teller, "but," he added parenthetically, "Judge Boompointer, you know, was speaking to you about his son." "Yes, I know that." To Randolph: "Go round to my private room and wait for me.
The long, shifting beams of light were accusing fingers seeking to point out the unwelcome, stealthy nocturnal sky prowlers. "Listen!" McGee gripped Larkin's arm. Sure enough, from the east, and high above, came the sound of German motors, a sound unmistakable by anyone who had once heard their unsynchronized drone.
Yesterday she brought me home some little drawers and night-gowns that were beautifully made. I am sure she will please you, and I know she deserves encouragement." "What is her name?" "Mrs. Walton; and she lives in Larkin's Court." "Thank you, ma'am. I will send for her this morning. You say she is very poor?" "You may judge of that yourself, Mrs. Lander.
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