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High and low, and all huddled together like so many babes in a nursing-home. No distinction. You saw old Mother Misery get first look-in to-night? My lady waited her turn, like a good girl!" His voice sank to a whisper. "They tell me he's the only living soul if he is a living soul that's ever been inside the Stock Exchange and come out tidy.
They passed a club, of which a lower window was vacated simultaneously with their coming into view; and a small but ornate figure in pale gray crash hurried down the steps and attached itself to the second row of Madisons. "Good-morning," said Mr. Wade Trumble. "Thought I'd take a look-in at church this morning myself." Care of this encumbrance was usually expected of Laura and Mrs.
A book is sometimes a success by the merest fluke; at other times, in spite of everything, a good book is a deplorable failure. I think yours will go; anyhow, I am willing to bet on it up to a certain amount, and if it does go, I want to have the first look-in at your future books. What do you say?" "Do you wish me to sign a contract?" "No, I merely want your word.
Visions of Clara and Gladys, and dear little Emily, and Rosina, and Beatrice, and the lovely Lucinda angels, every one of them, if you haven't seen them for ten years, and wouldn't know them again if you met them in the street haunt the background of every man's mind by the time he's five-and-thirty, and cut entrancing capers against the sky-line, so that when one comes to thrash the matter out one finds the actually present woman, here in the foreground, hasn't really any look-in at all."
"I'm afraid the poor kid didn't get much of a look-in until I got tired of them." "In view of these revelations, Madam President," began Tom, "I move that whatever we do for the orphans shall be something that they can join in themselves, and not just look at. Anybody got an idea?"
Albert shook his head. "No, Is," he answered, gravely. "No, that wouldn't be any use. With you around nobody else has a look-in at the 'handsome' game. Issy, what do you do to your face?" "Do to it? What do you mean by do to it?" "What do you do to it to make it look the way it does? Don't tell me it grew that way naturally." "Grew! Course it grew! What kind of talk's that?"
The girl of the gray riding-habit was transformed into a girl in white. Jack saw her as a domestic being. He guessed that she had seen that the table was set right; that she had had a look-in at the cooking; that the hands whose boast it was that they could shoot, had picked the jonquils in the slender bronze vase on the table.
Wild Water took one glance and saw the trail black with men clear to the far Dawson bank, down which the same unbroken string of men was pouring. "Well, I'm goin' to get a look-in at that prospect-hole before they get here," he said, turning and starting swiftly up the ravine. But the cabin door opened, and the two occupants stepped out. "Hey!" Smoke called. "Where are you going?"
But now the time had come for mutual confidences, and both, in the inevitable young way, felt the desire to paint the picture of their own particular grievance against life which should make them out to be the two genuine martyrs of the century. It was now a question of which of them got the first look-in.
"An' ef Wilson wins that race this arternoon," said Sandy, "the boys from the ranch will feel so dawgoned good thet they won't be able t' kick about nothin' fer a year t' come." "Thet's a good one, thet is," jeered one of the townspeople who had overheard this remark. "Why, that guy Wilson ain't got even a look-in. Our champ will make him look like an also ran."
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