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He stopped abruptly, coughed, as though he had carried his utterance beyond propriety. "The Nickles," he repeated somberly, "are worthless; they make trouble in my parish; with money they make more." The year, in the immemorial, minute shifting of season, grew brittle and cold; the dusk fell sooner and night lingered late into morning.
Well girlie we will be out of here in less then a wk. now if we don't have no bad luck and you can bet I won't waist no time getting to where ever they send us and I hope its Cologne. So in the mean wile don't take no wood nickles and don't get impatient but be a good girlie and save up your loving for me. Tres beaucoup from Your Sammy Boy, JACK KEEFE.
He dismissed that possibility of resemblance it was too palpably at variance with what Meta Beggs would consider desirable; but, somehow, pink tights and Paris were synonymous in his thoughts. At any rate it was certain to be gay; the women would resemble Nickles' wife rather than his sister ... than Lettice as she would be in a few years.
They went about, soon, with eyes that had grey gaunt hollows about them pits already cavernous like the eye-pits of a skull. "Well, they don't have to work in there unless they want to, do they?" "Ah, they're only a lot of foreigners anyhow." Three dollars a week was a lot of money for me ... a fortune, because I had never owned anything higher than nickles and dimes before.
Some of them died, and the white men buried them with little more thought or ceremony than was given those of their dogs that died. Pomiuk, in spite of his suffering, kept his spirits. He loved to wield his long dog whip. It was his pride. Visitors at the fair pitched nickles and dimes into the enclosure where the Eskimos and their exhibits were kept.
The papers before him, so painfully comprehended, with such a determination of justice, were but the visible marks of the futility, the waste, of his dreaming. He sank heavily into the chair before his table. He recalled the younger Entriken's smooth lies, the debauchery of his money by the Nickles; William Vibard's accordions mocked him again ... all, all, had been in vain, worthless.
It was accidental, for they had in the multitude of other events and presents, forgotten they had it until one morning, in emptying their banks for "peanut" nickles, with a dexterity born of long practice, they discovered the two gold coins, for they each had been given one, of course, and they rushed off at once to show them.
Now there's Nickles, next place to me, his old woman's not worth a pinch of powder, but she is the nicest, easiest spoken body you'd meet in a day on a horse. You mind Effie when she was young, Gord she just trailed song all over the house, but it wasn't hardly a year before she got penetrating as a musket.
A sudden, profound silence met his appearance, a shifting of feet, a concerted, bald, inimical stare. "Well?" Gordon Makimmon demanded; "you've read the Bugle, well?" He heard a murmur from the back of the throng, "Give it to him, we didn't come here to talk." "'Give it to him," Gordon repeated thinly. "I see Ben Nickles there, behind that hulk from the South Fork; Nickles'll do it and glad.
It will wipe off the two hundred dollars he had out of me for a new roof. Or there's Entriken if Nickles is afraid, his note falls due again soon." "What about the railroad?" "What about it? Greenstream's been settled for eighty years, why haven't you moved around and got one? Do you expect the President of the Tennessee and Northern to come up and beg you to let them lay tracks to your doors?
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