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Dyckman could not imagine that Kedzie was already as bad as all that. She wasn't. She was just trying to get as close as she could to a million dollars. Her feelings were as innocent and as imbecile as those of the mobs that stand in line for the privilege of pump-handling a politician. Jim Dyckman kept forgetting that he was so rich. He hated to be reminded of it.
Recovering himself with a "damn," he clapped his left hand on Sir Oliver's shoulder, seized Sir Oliver's right in his grip and started pump-handling "as though" murmured Langton, "the room were sinking with ten feet of liquor in the hold." "Harry is it Harry?" Sir Oliver stammered, and made a weak effort to rise. "Lord! You're drunk!" Captain Harry crowed the cheerful discovery.
Dale catched his own breath he give me th' artificial respreation saved my life second time when they'd lugged us on the bank. I was gone for a ghost; but I do hear as they'll tell 'ee at th' mill Mr. Dale he knelt acrost me a pump-handling my arms, pulling of my tongue, and bellows-blowing my ribs for a clock hour;" and Veale would laugh again, spit on the ground, and conclude his story.
He was holding her hand and joyfully pump-handling it up and down as though he would never let it go, while the glad light in his eyes would indubitably have betrayed him to any passer-by who had chanced to glance in his direction. Sara coloured faintly and withdrew her hands from his eager clasp. "Oh, well, you might conceivably have had something else to do," she returned evasively.
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