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What peace he felt! What happiness! What triumph! He seemed even taller than usual! And lighter on his feet! And, oh, the strength in his backbone! in those lead-pipe legs! "I'm not terrible bad off here no more," he went on. "I got this suit, and my books, and One-Eye's quart o' milk. Also, Mrs. Kukor, she'll be back 'fore long, and you'll bring Cis home t' see me, won't y'?" "I will."
The rest is chiefly a matter of business judgment. It's something of a jump, I'll admit, but I can negotiate it, all right." "As a matter of fact," he continued presently, and with a highly self-satisfied note in his voice, "apart from the executive work it's what the Americans call a lead-pipe cinch. We can't lose.
You've got 'em running around in circles and uttering loud and plaintive cries, especially Jim Rankin, who had or thought he had a lead-pipe cinch on the job. Dortscher is tickled half to death. He knew he wasn't going to be allowed to succeed himself, and he hates Rankin worse than poison." Blount was balancing the spoon on the edge of his coffee-cup and scowling abstractedly.
Lewis; "fifty'll get you a thousand any time, my lad. It's a lead-pipe at twenty to one. But say, with all these Petroleum Pete oil-stock grafters and Dawson City Daves with frozen feet and mining-stock in their mitts, a man's got to play them close in to his bosom to win out anything. Competition is killing this place, my boy." In the Turkish room Percival found Mrs.
"If I was the stranger," he said dryly, "I'd get a piece of lead-pipe and stand in an area-way about 11.30 one of these dark nights. That's the only way I know to raise money for mining purposes in this town." Bruce stepped back abruptly and his dark face reddened. "Sorry I bothered you," he eyed the clerk steadily, "but I made a mistake in the way I sized you up."
I was on the point of coming out this afternoon with young Mr. Serrell, the patentee of the lead-pipe machine, which I think promises to be the best for our purposes of all that have been invented, as to it can be applied 'a mode of filling lead-pipe with wire, for which Professor Fisher and myself have entered a caveat at the Patent Office."
Yet nature will not give us pure iron. She always gives it to us mixed with the stuff that weakens it this dross and brimstone. Nature hands out no bonanzas, no lead-pipe cinches to mankind. Man must claw for everything he gets, and when he gets it, it is mixed with dirt. And if he wants it clean, he'll have to clean it with the labor of his hands. "Why can't we have a different system than this?"
So he goes around, naturally, and asks her if the game is still square. Well, nobody wants a guy cutting in with buggies and gold bonds when he's got an option on a girl. Well, he goes around to see her. Well, maybe he's hot, and talks like the proprietor, and forgets that an engagement ain't always a lead-pipe cinch. Well, I guess that makes Alice warm under the lacy yoke.
A look of deep cunning crept into the boy's thin freckled face; his eyes contracted and blinked nervously. "What th' 'ell's the difference? If the Porter mare starts Redpath thinks he's got a lead-pipe cinch." "You'd lose your five hundred; that's the difference," retorted Langdon. "An' if she doesn't start, an' our horse wins, I get five hundred? Is that dead to rights?"
Brass knuckles and a convenient length of lead-pipe were favourite weapons with the clientele which gave to the waiting room of Mr. Stott's law office an odour reminiscent of a Wayfarers' Lodging House. The night was a dark one, so dark in fact that old Mr.
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