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What's the use of us having to get apart after we just got each other? What's all those phony counts and picture-galleries and high-sounding stunts compared to us staying home and hitting it off together, Miriam? Just tell me that, Miriam." "Irving, I we just couldn't! Look at mamma and papa and Ray, all down at the boat maybe by now waiting for me, and none of them wanting to go except me.
"And yet I'd bet a thousand they're phony," burst from Kendric. Then he caught himself up short. Suppose they were or were not? A woman was offering to play him and he was holding back; he was making excuses, the second already; in his own ears his words, sensible though they were, began to ring like the petty talk of a hedger. "Turn out the die, Señora," he said abruptly.
And still they came, that line of grotesques, hobbling, limping, sprawling their way to the golden promise. Never did Pied Piper flute to creatures more bemused. Only once was there pause, when the dispenser of balm held aloft between thumb and finger a cart-wheel dollar. "Phony!" he said curtly, and flipped it far into the darkness.
"My people were certainly handed a phony deal here," he remarked shortly, as he buttoned the coat collar about his throat. "Questionable title to the water! Extravagance and poor management! Rotten project all through! If I had lined this thing up, I should have learned what I actually had before a cent was expended.
"Weener sahib, fate has tied us together." I hoped not. I was weary of Gootes and his phony accents. J S Francis, World Renowned Chemist, exclusively in the Intelligencer. You know. Suppress her unfortunate sex. "Anyway she didnt grasp her chance. Practically told W R to go to hell.
But everywhere, in every quarter and class and set and circle there is always the depraved; and the logical links that connect them are unbroken from Fifth Avenue to Chinatown, from the half-crazed extravagances of the Orchils' Louis XIV ball to a New Year's reception at the Haymarket where Troy Lil's diamonds outshine the phony pearls of Hoboken Fanny, and Hatpin Molly leads the spiel with Clarence the Pig."
It sent a shiver through me merely to contemplate what might happen if Violet Winslow fell into such hands. Mentally I blessed Garrick for his forethought in having the phony 'phone in the garage against possible discovery of the detective instrument. "You know this poisoned needle stuff that's been in the papers?" pursued the Chief. "Bunk all bunk," came back the Boss promptly.
The only thing to do is to go out and get it back, and get it quick, eh, Bunch?" "You bet, John," Bunch agreed. "I spent last evening with Alice and I felt like phony money all the time. She's going right ahead with the wedding preparations and I simply hadn't the nerve to tell her that I lost nearly every penny I had.
"I know. But a little misery, at times, makes one appreciate happiness more. Tell me, Phony, what is this record like, which you say you have on tap?" "It's a popular song, sir. In all civilized lands the common people have gone wild over it." "Makes civilized folks wild folks, eh? Then it's dangerous." "Wild with joy, I mean," explained the phonograph. "Listen.
We leased this floor under the name of a phony corporation. It's entirely ours, but the rest of the building is occupied by legitimate firms." "Isn't that risky?" Weiss asked. "It depends. If the project is penetrated, then it becomes easier for the enemy in one way, since we don't have the protection of a government building.
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