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Coming boldly up to her, the ragged man laid upon the shelf of the wicket his precious bill it was now wadded into a greenish-yellow wisp like a sprig of celery top and said simply, "One!" With a jangle of her wrist jewelry, the young woman drew the bill in under the bars and straightened it out in front of her. She considered, with widening gaze, the numeral 1 and the three naughts following it.
"Thorogood, surely! Come in, old lad. What are you doing aboard the lugger D'you know Standish?" The new-comer nodded a greeting, acknowledging the introduction. "Station-mates in the East Indies, weren't we?" said Standish. "That's right," replied the other. "I remember you: we were both in camp together way back in the 'Naughty Naughts. We used to call you the India-rubber Man Bunje for short."
Alix's favourite topic was her little sister; she had almost a maternal pride and fondness where Cherry was concerned. Today she had been house-cleaning, and had brought some treasures downstairs. She had showed Peter Cherry's old exercise books: "Look, Peter, how she put faces in the naughts and turned the sevens into little sail- boats!
His tastes had led him into the avenues of success, and as he had not encountered grand resistances, he entertained his opinion of their sex. The particular maxim he cherished was, to stake everything on his making a favourable first impression: after which single figure, he said, all your empty naughts count with women for hundreds, thousands, millions: noblest virtues are but sickly units.
Yonder's a Quaker and a lawyer charged with a riot; and, ecod, I must make one key and one lock keep them, for we are chokeful, and you have sent off old Nixon that could have given one some help in this confusion. Besides, they take up every one a room, and call for naughts on earth, excepting the old man, who calls lustily enough, but he has not a penny to pay shot.
The young nobleman of the millions was watched; the town spyglass had him in its orbit. Tales of the ancestral Fleetwoods ran beside rumours of a Papist priest at the bedside of the Foredoomed to Error's dying mother. His wealth was counted, multiplied by the ready naughts of those who know little and dread much.
He professes to know how to lay the foundations for every species of personal acquaintanceship, and how to remedy the slight and trivial slips of making Plato write Greek in naughts and crosses. "As I fear, sir, he sometimes used to do Before I found the useful book that knows."
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