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The Picaresque romance by Mateo Aleman Vida y Lechos del picaro Guzman de Alfarache, Part I., 1599; Part II., 1605. It was translated into English by James Mabbe in 1622 as The Rogue; or, The Life of Guzman de Alfarache. Lamb had a copy, which is now in my possession, with Mary Lamb's name in it. London Magazine, January, 1823.
The Magpie cocked his eye, and stuck his tongue in his cheek. "GOOD-night!" he said tersely. "Nothin' like dat! Are youse on, or ain't youse?" "Well, den, wot's in it fer me?" persisted Larrry the Bat. "More'n de price of a coke sneeze!" returned the Magpie pertinently. "Dere's a century note fer youse, an' mabbe two or t'ree of dem fer Mag." Larry the Bat's eyes gleamed avariciously.
And say" he leaned forward with an ugly grin "mabbe you think I'm soft to be telling you all this? But don't you fool yourself. You don't know me you don't know who I am. So tell 'em the TRUTH! They won't believe you anyway with evidence like that against you and the neater the story the more they'll think it shows brains enough on your part to have pulled a job like this!" "My God!"
He felt a whiteness creeping to his face and lips, felt his lips twitch, felt the fingers of his hands curl in and the nails begin to press into the palms. "Mabbe," suggested the Flopper timidly, "mabbe dere was an accident." Madison made no answer. The Flopper shifted from foot to foot and licked his lips, stealing frightened glances at Madison's face.
"Kinks in his nut, kinks in his nut!" Connie Myers was muttering. "I'll drop the bar through from the top, mabbe there's some got stuck in the pipe." He regained his feet, picked up the bar, and ran with it into what was evidently the front hall then his steps sounded running upstairs. Like a flash, Jimmie Dale was across the room and at the fireplace.
"What do you mean?" he demanded. "Mabbe nothin' mabbe a whole lot." Larry the Bat dropped his voice mysteriously. "I was thinkin' of pullin' off a little show here, an' youse have de luck ter get an invite, dat's all. Mabbe I'll hand youse somethin' on a gold platter, an' mabbe I'll hand youse this!" The automatic was shoved significantly an inch closer to Meighan's face. "Youse know me!
'Mabbe I did na hear ye aright, Tony. She spoke hurriedly, and though she was quite close to him, steadying herself with one hand clutching the back of his chair, her voice sounded weak, distant almost. 'Look oop at me. Look oop into my face, she commanded fiercely. He obeyed sullenly. 'Noo oot wi 't. What's yer meanin', Tony? 'I mean what I say, he retorted doggedly, averting his gaze.
He stopped, and with a hurried motion, carried his hands across his eyes Helena, pure as one of God's own angels now, to come to that, to come to It was the Flopper who completed the sentence. "Ten spaces up de river," said the Flopper, and shivered, and his tongue sought his lips; "or mabbe mabbe twenty." Pale Face Harry stirred uneasily.
As the canvas fell back into place, the shop door opened, closed, and the two men had stepped inside. Whitey Mack's voice, in a low whisper though it was, seemed to echo raucously through the shop. "Mabbe we'll have a sweet wait, but I got the straight dope on this. He's going to make a try for Dutchy's sparklers to-night.
D'ye hear about a man being murdered to-day with his face cut up? Oh, you did eh? Well, I happen to know that man was the Spider, and one of these days, mabbe, the police'll tumble to who it was, too. Get me? Suppose I call some of that gang back, and show 'em the painting you've done along the hall eh?
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