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It was amusing to observe how circumspectly the bullies of the house walked while in his neighborhood. But I found him to be a man of silent and lonesome habit, and temperate. He discouraged my friendly advance with a cold indifference, and my idea of chumming with him during my pay-day "bust" soon went glimmering.
Hence the workmen probably generally came out worst in the conflict because they had no other means of redress, and labour is in most places abundant in India, and vacant posts are quickly filled. The contractor, on pay-day at least, was able to show his contempt for the underlings who were so often rude to him, by the way in which he gave them their money.
Panic asserted itself in the small hours, when he awoke in his bed and wondered what would happen when pay-day came, should it bring no pay with it ... and to a man lying sleepless in the small hours, the worst seems not only possible but likely. Then, as daylight waxed and he awoke again from a short doze, to his surprise he found himself absolutely reckless.
She had never seen as many different animals as she wanted to see, until now. She admitted that she sort of loved wild things she even liked the wild smell of 'em. There was something in here she touched her breast lightly that felt kin to them. There was not the usual horde of visitors, that day being a pay-day.
"You'll never draw your pay-day in Seattle. I'll fix you out for this, killing a crazy lashed down in his bunk an' harmless. You'll follow 'm overside, my hearty." "If I do, you'll hang for it, sir," Davis retorted. He turned his cool eyes on me. "An' I call on you, sir, to witness the threats he's made. An' you'll testify to them, too, in court. An' he'll hang as sure as I go over the side.
"I shouldn't wonder if I was never to get that money now. I lent 'em to Jabez Smith, my rear rank man, in Brussels. 'Only till pay-day, Grig, says he. By Gosh! he was stuck by a lancer at Quatre Bras, and me with not so much as a slip o' paper to prove the debt! Them three half-crowns is as good as lost to me." The colonel rose from his chair laughing.
"I'm getting used to my new face," he said, "and I'm getting used to smoking again. Got to. Nothing but a smoke will help a fellow at times. What business is this you're in here?" "Cow-punching riding out after cattle." "Hard to learn?" "Easy for a sailor. I'm only hanging on until pay-day, then I make for 'Frisco to ship." "And someone will take your place, I suppose.
There was little doing in the commissary it was too near pay-day for the men to be buying much and the clerk who had taken over my former job shut up shop quite early. At nine o'clock I was alone in the store-room building; and at a little before ten I put out the lights and lay down on the office cot with a sawed-off Winchester a part of the pay-office armament lying on the mattress beside me.
"The Prince!" said Rochebriant, rousing himself from revery; "what Prince?" "Do you not recognize him by his wonderful likeness to the first Napoleon, him on horseback talking to Louvier, the great financier." "Is that stout bourgeois in the carriage Louvier, my mortgagee, Louvier?" "Your mortgagee, my dear Marquis? Well, he is rich enough to be a very lenient one upon pay-day." "Hein!
Her pudding was smoking hot, I was exceedingly hungry, and my mouth watered so at the tempting sight, that I could not drag myself away. But, much as I longed for a slice, what was to be done? I had no money, and my friend the plum-pudding woman was by far too old a soldier to give trust till pay-day.
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