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He felt, too, the benign, tonic medicament of the trained nurse, Spring, tripping softly adown the wards of the convalescent city. Suspecting that he was about to be panhandled, he turned a cold and unprofitable face, and saw that his captor was Dawe Shackleford Dawe, dingy, almost ragged, the genteel scarcely visible in him through the deeper lines of the shabby.
Hard by, in yon wood, I seem to see unfurnished lodgings. Let us go there and wait till dark. "There was an old, deserted cabin in the grove, and we three took possession of it. After dark Bill Bassett tells us to wait, and goes out for half an hour. He comes back with a armful of bread and spareribs and pies. "'Panhandled 'em at a farmhouse on Washita Avenue, says he. 'Eat, drink and be leary.
He was resolved not to put in the remainder of his Days being panhandled by a Souffle who wore Dancing Pumps in the Daytime. The problem was to get shut of the Rodent without resorting to any Rough Stuff. Father had never heard tell of the Perils of Propinquity, and he thought Psychology had something to do with Fish.
There was something Joan of Arc-ish, Herculean, and Una-ish in the look and pose of the shop-lady she had cast off the rôles of Job and Little-Red-Riding-Hood. The young man stopped at the foot of the stairs and coughed distractedly. He felt marooned, held up, attacked, assailed, levied upon, sacked, assessed, panhandled, browbeaten, though he knew not why.
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