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"It's being done in the best circles," says I. "These calls incog. are gettin' to be bad form. Isn't that right, Mr. Pettigrew?" "If he is a gas man or a plumber," says Waldo, "why doesn't he say so at once?" "There's your cue," says I. "Now come across with the alibi." "I I can't explain just how I happen to be here," says the gent, "but but there are those who can." "Eh?" says I. "Oh-ho!"
"An' he loves you, no doubt," continued the old woman with a laugh. "At least he's probably told you so." "No, he hasn't." "Oh-ho! He hasn't, eh?" "No." "An' never will," shouted the harpy triumphantly. "He ain't marryin' no Websters don't you think it for one minute. He's just makin' a fool of you. That's his idea of revenge your Christian gentleman!" She rubbed her dank hands together.
Poggin nodded in slow-gathering wrath. "Well, Jim's new pard this man Dodge he's not who he seems. Oh-ho! He's a hell of a lot different. But I know him. An' when I spring his name on you, Poggin, you'll freeze to your gizzard. Do you get me?
"Oh-ho!" he cried in a joyous bass voice; "here are both my tin men come to visit me, and they and their friends are welcome indeed. I'm very proud of you two characters, I assure you, for you are so perfect that you are proof that I'm a good workman. Sit down. Sit down, all of you if you can find anything to sit on and tell me why you are here."
"Oh-ho! you'll never learn to work like her, and you'd better find it out now. I seen you running your machine, and I says to myself, 'That girl 'll never make her salt making underclothes. Pants 'd be more in your line. To make money on muslin you've got to be born to 't." "That's no lie, either," muttered another. "You bet it ain't!" declared the expert Rachel.
Her voice thrilled him; and while he was thrilling, Madeira's voice came on to him: "You needn't hold back on that account," Madeira was saying: "God bless you, I've got the next heir in the deal, too." "Oh-ho," said the girl, who also heard, "we are taking you for granted, aren't we?" Steering only smiled at her again.
To both, the project cherished so long and constantly was in the nature of a bombshell. "Oh-ho!" said Jane, recovering herself after a moment. "So me and Thomas are to be thrown out of our jobs, are we?" Gwendolyn looked mild surprise. "But you don't like to be here," she reminded. "And you and Thomas wouldn't have to work any more; you could just play all the time."
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