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Together with this assertion of private right, and the warning it implied, was the expression of yet elder privilege in the presence of the immemorial wanderers who had their shabby camps by the open wayside and offered the passer fortune at so low a rate that the poorest pleasurer could afford to buy a prophecy of prosperity from them; I do not know why they proposed to sell with these favorable destinies small brushes and brooms of their own make.
But swiftly as they had come the steamer had been even more prompt, and she now turned toward them a beautiful wake, as she pushed farther and farther out into the harbor. The hackman took his two dollars for his four passengers, and was rapidly mounting his box, probably to avoid idle reproaches. "Wait!" said the chief pleasurer.
The boat will be starting in a few moments, and I doubt whether we can walk it. How far is it," he asks, turning toward a respectable-looking man, "to Liverpool Wharf?" "Well, it's consid'able ways," says the man, smiling. "Then we must take a hack," says the pleasurer to his party. "Come on." "I've got a hack," observes the man, in a casual way, as if the fact might possibly interest.
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