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If your pardner gets restless and oneasy and middlin' cross, as pardners will be anon, or even oftener start them off on a tower. A tower will in 9 cases out of 10 lift 'em out of their oneasiness, their restlessness and their crossness. Why this is so I cannot tell, no more than I can explain other mysteries of creation, but I know it is so.
"Youse'll catch on in no time now, pardner," resumed the boy soothingly, "an' I'm mighty glad I was here ter set ye goin'. Sure, I sells poipers meself, I does, an' I knows how 't is. Don't look so flabbergasted. 'T ain't nuttin'. Shucks! hain't fellers what's pardners oughter do a turn fur 't odder?" The Millionaire bit his lip.
"No," said Curly, "but he came out here for his health for a few years when he was just out of college. He and my oldest brother were law pardners in Phoenix. I always thought he was crooked. All lawyers are." Enoch smiled to himself. "Fowler sent his prospectors into Mexico after that," Mack went on reminiscently.
Don't ever make the mistake of giving these financiers the credit of being on the level. You can't grab that much money in the short time they've been gathering without gouging every man you meet. So just watch this man Jepson. Keep your eye on his accounts, and remember we're pardners, now."
"The one he writ to in New York. Huh! Yes, me and Billy's pardners." "Is he is he better?" asked Anne hesitatingly. "Better! Say, lady, excuse me if I tell you he's gettin' so blame frisky that he's got me scared. Why, I left him settin' on a rock eatin' a sardine san'wich with one hand and shootin' holes in all the tin cans in sight with the other.
Here they be, Miss Marshay fer yer. Giminy, teacher, ain't them purty? An' O, teacher He made 'm in the fust place 'n had the man guv them to me, 'n so I reckon He 'n me's pardners in this here white gift bizness." And he held up in his thin, grimy hand a bunch of white, sweet-scented violets.
As for the Countess, his way was hers, her way was his; he could not bear to think of losing her. She was big, she was great, she drew him by the spell of some strange magic. The peppery old man who, with Doret's help, had defied the miners' meeting approached him to inquire: "Say, why didn't old Tom come back with you from Linderman?" "Old Tom?" "Sure! Old Tom Linton. We're pardners.
Mrs Gamp observed it, however, and came to a premature close in consequence. 'Well, it ain't her, it seems, said Mrs Prig, coldly; 'who is it then? 'You have heerd me mention, Betsey, Mrs Gamp replied, after glancing in an expressive and marked manner at the tea-pot, 'a person as I took care on at the time as you and me was pardners off and on, in that there fever at the Bull?
At intervals the "floor manager" would come to the door and call out numbers: "Number one, and up to and including sixteen, git your pardners fer a two-step!" Whereupon certain men would pinch out the glow of their cigarettes and grind the stubs into the sod under their heels, and go in to find partners.
He began to move in the direction of the house. He appeared to have forgotten all about the festivities; he was simply weary, and was going home to rest. "Tak your pardners for de nex' waltz!" A moment of preliminary scraping, then the tune, and finally the muffled scuffling of feet fell upon his ears.
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