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He glanced down at the cowering form of Alf Drew. "So you've got the 'makings, have you?" Reade demanded, seizing Alf by the collar and yanking him up to his feet. Paper and tobacco fell from young Drew's nerveless grasp to the ground. "You made me drop the makings of a good one," whined Alf resentfully. "You didn't have that stuff two hours ago. Where did you get it?" Reade demanded.
"You'll be all right to strum the guitar and sport a diamond ring in a fortnight at the outside," said he. At the door he lectured Adelaide: "For God's sake, Miss Ranger, don't let his mother coddle him. He's got the makings of a man like his father not as big, perhaps, but still a lot of a man. Give him a chance! Give him a chance!
Poultney Masters plodded in, his broad paunch shaking with chuckles. "'Leave it to the horse," he mumbled appreciatively. "'Leave it to the horse. It's good. It's damned good. The right answer. Who but the horse should know whether a man rides like a gentleman! Where's young Banneker?" Forster introduced the two. "You've got the makings of a polo-man in you," decreed the great man.
The old man came in cold and weary, and the sight of the half-tended kitchen and neglected fire they paid a neighbour to do the housework, as far as the care of her own seven children would let her suddenly revived in his slippery mind the memory of his niece, who, with all her faults, had had the makings of a housewife, and for whom, in spite of her flouts and jeers, he had always cherished a secret admiration.
To be sure, the proof would be in the pan that night, browned in savory cornmeal after the fashion of the New Brunswick backwoods. But the Babe had in him the makings of a true sportsman, and for him a trout had just one brief moment of unmatchable perfection the moment when it was taken off the hook and held up to be gloated over or coveted.
In her husband big, quiet, self-contained he recognized a man as hard as himself. Young McCrae, silent, too grim of mouth for his years, was the makings of another hard man. But it was at Sheila that he looked the most, and at her if not to her his conversation was directed. So much for the simple magic of a white dress.
"I am afraid," he said, "that I shall have to replace James. His defection is unforgivable, and he has misplaced the finger-bowls." The youth and the girl forced wan smiles; but neither spoke. Bridge drew a pouch of tobacco and some papers from an inside pocket. "'I had the makings and I smoked "'And wondered over different things, "'Thinkin' as how this old world joked
The test elated him perceptibly; for while there did not seem to be the makings of a millionaire in that gravel bank, he judged roughly that he could make a plumber's wages if he worked hard enough and that looked pretty good to a fellow who had worked all his life for forty dollars a month. "Two-bits a pan, just about," he put it to himself.
It must not be forgotten, too, that in the days of "bloody Balfour" he was not merely chivalrous, but even Quixotic, in taking upon himself the mistakes and misdoings of his subordinates in Ireland. He certainly had the makings of a chivalrous figure, and perhaps even a great man.
This idea however was luckily all before him again from the moment he crossed the threshold of the little entresol of the Quartier Marboeuf into which she had gathered, as she said, picking them up in a thousand flights and funny little passionate pounces, the makings of a final nest.
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