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There, you've had your touch of the gold fever, and if we get back on board I'll give every man-jack of you a dose of quinine. But now I shall say no more about it, for I see you're all sorry for being such fools, and are going to fall back into your work." There was a low murmur of assent at this, and the captain spoke again: "What say, Sir Humphrey?"
I had the big South room on the second floor of the Hotel de Paris. It looks down on the Casino and the Mediterranean. Perhaps you know it. Queer friends, you'd say. Every man-jack of them a gambler. But when one begins to sit about all night with his eyes open, the devil's a friend. Barclay was standing before the fire. The others had drifted out. He's a big man pitted with the smallpox.
You're not the only one, I'll tell you that. There's many a man hoeing tobacco over-seas that should be mounting his horse at his own door at home; many and many! And life is all a variorum at the best. Look at me: I'm a laird's son and more than half a doctor, and here I am, man-Jack to Hoseason!" I thought it would be civil to ask him for his story. He whistled loud. "Never had one," said he.
The monks had joined the mewsical chorus, and the lay visitor shrieked and been sore discomforted; but Abelard only cried, "What, are ye there, ye jealous miauling knaves? ye shall caterwaul to some tune to-morrow night. I'll fit every man-jack of ye with a fardingale." That this brutal threat had reconciled him to stay another day at Gerard's request. Gerard groaned.
Reddin, and wear this gownd, and live at Undern, said Hazel. 'Eh? Sally was astonished. 'And he said there wunna any other but me. Sally laughed. 'You believed that lie? You little softie! Hazel looked at the children. 'Be they all his'n? she said. 'Every man-jack of 'em, and not so much as a thank you for me! The children were ranged near their mother on high chairs.
It so chanced that for once they were rather short-handed, and to expedite the work a party of blue-jackets were sent to clear a spare lighter. Whether or not they mistook the commander's order, or whether their eyes had got blinded with coal dust I can't say, but sure am I that they failed, every man-jack of them, to go into the indicated boat.
But there's two thousand pounds there that don't belong to you, and I'm an honest man. Give me the two thousand that's yours, and I'll give you a passage to the coast, and land every man-jack of you in 'Frisco with fifteen pounds in his pocket, and the captain here with twenty-five." Goddedaal laid down his head on the table like a man ashamed. "You're joking," said Wicks, purple in the face.
Think I care? Why, I LIKE it. I run my ranch to suit myself and I play my game my own way. I'm a 'driver, I know it, and a 'bully, too. Oh, I know what they call me 'a brute beast, with a twist in my temper that would rile up a new-born lamb, and I'm 'crusty' and 'pig-headed' and 'obstinate. They say all that, but they've got to say, too, that I'm cleverer than any man-jack in the running.
Simple it was, so he said, to laughableness; yet, if their surmise was correct, it would serve as an effectual preventive if not cure, and would at least give them time to turn round. He paused. "My suggestion is: That every man-jack of you who owns a sheep-dog ties him up at night." The farmers were given half an hour to consider the proposal, and clustered in knots talking it over.
Seems like I'd never want to sleep again. Faith, this is living! You've got us all enthused. And your idea of putting every man-jack in uniform was bully! Nothing like uniforms even a jumble of different kinds, like ours to cement men together and give them the esprit de corps. If we go through as we've begun " The Master interrupted him with a cold glance of annoyance.
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