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I don't do such things as a rule, but I was getting a suspicion that I was being queered; that I'd got to start my exile under a handicap of the contempt of the natives. If dad had stacked the deck on me, I wanted to know it. But I misjudged him or, perhaps, he knew I'd read it. All he had written wouldn't hurt the reputation of any one. It was: The bearer, Ellis H. Carleton, is my son.
She was the kind that simply looked scorn into and clear through you, when she thought you were acting low down. This, with a man strung like Jack was, simply put the fat into the fire. It would have been different with me. I'd well I'd have made an abject crawl, to be sure. You see, her knowing this was the thing that must have always queered me with her.
I'm one of those guys with a sense of humor, you know. I'm the regular George Cohan kind, and between my practical jokes and some interfering old maids I I beg your pardon." "I'm not partial to 'em myself," smiled Persis reassuringly. There was an instant of understanding silence. "Well, anyway," groaned the young man, "with a little outside help, I've queered myself for good.
"Connolly, close that trap of yours and listen to me. This is serious. He'll be back in a jiffy. It's the same lady as he is going to meet." "Same lady? But she's his sister." "Yes, of course, you idiot! She's his sister. And now you've queered me with him and he will think " "Aw, Doc, let me be. I'll straighten that tangle out." "Sh-h! Here he is. Not a word, on your life!"
From the remarks of his friends even as they thronged him, offering congratulations, Mr. Allen could easily gather that however impressive his speech had been, few of his audience had taken his warning seriously. "You queered my speech, Larry," he said, "but I forgive you." "Not at all, Sir," replied Larry. "You certainly got me." "I fear," replied Mr.
"I wonder, where such perfection is possible," said I, "that they tolerate that." "They're not going to very much longer," said Adonis, and then he laughed. "Narcissus queered himself last season at the palace. Jove sent for him to trim his beard, and he nearly cut one of the old man's ears off.
I've just been tipped that big things are going to happen this fall. That fool Donnelly has queered himself, and is making a muddle of everything he touches. Senator Henderson is a shrewd man, but he wasn't shrewd enough this time. He should have conducted his little conspiracy in his own home and not at a club where servants often find profit in selling what they hear.
This puzzled Boswellister, and he remarked in a voice that seemed overloud, "But who has glass insides?" The women giggled and turned away. The pitchman's scowl was a menace; his voice bitter: "Go on, scram. You queered my tip." Boswellister slipped away while the pitchman started to collect a new crowd.
He'll have to go when the fight with the men gets hot enough; but he might hold on too long for our comfort." "Well?" said Flemister again, this time more impatiently, Judson thought. "He queered your lay-out by carefully omitting to come on the passenger, and now you propose to fall back upon Rufford's method. I don't approve."
"Dobbs Ferry, near New York," I answered. "I'd -I'd like to have a talk with you, when you are not busy." "That's all right," he said. "I'm not busy now. That bumboat pirate queered the only business I had. Where are you going to stop? There is only one place," he explained; "that's Pulido's.
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