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I told you there was something wrong; that some outside influence was queering us all along the line and I let myself be talked out of my conviction by you instead of getting busy and finding out the truth.
Why, last summer I had it from the clerk of the hotel in that town that she ran around all day with a woman named LeHaye Blanche LeHaye, of an aggregation of bum burlesquers called the Sam Levin Crackerjack Belles. And say, for a whole month there, she had a tough young kid traveling with her that she called her son. Oh, she's queering your line, all right.
But you won't be able to talk about this war, or lecture, or write a book about it." "I won't?" demanded Hamlin. "And why won't I?" "Because of what you're doing now," said Billy. "Because you're queering yourself. Now, you've got everything." The Kid was very much in earnest. His tone was intimate, kind, and friendly. "You've seen everything, done everything.
But you won't be able to talk about this war, or lecture, or write a book about it." "I won't?" demanded Hamlin. "And why won't I?" "Because of what you're doing now," said Billy. "Because you're queering yourself. Now, you've got everything." The Kid was very much in earnest. His tone was intimate, kind, and friendly. "You've seen everything, done everything.
And we don't like either one or the other, but we fool ourselves into liking them. When we're in space we can't wait to get to the Enclave, and once we're down here we can't wait to get back. Some life." "Got any suggestions? Some way of fixing things up for us without queering interstellar commerce?" "Yes," Alan snapped. "I do have a suggestion. Hyperspace drive!" Quantrell laughed harshly.
Shrig with his placid smile, "I vere a champion buzman, ah! and a prime rook at queering the gulls, too, but I ewentually turned honest all along of a flash, morning-sneak covess as got 'erself conwerted." "What do you mean by a morning-sneak covess?" "I means a area-sneak, sir, as vorks werry early in the morning.
"Consequently he must be given a part which he can clown without queering the whole scene." "Exactly," said Daphne. "What d'you mean, talking about parts and scenes?" said Berry. "I thought it was going to be a ball." "So it is," said his wife. "But people are taking parties, and every party's going to represent some tale or picture or play or a bit of it. I've told you all this once."
The harbor with rough heavy jolts had long ago started me thinking about questions of this kind. Now I tackled them again and tried to talk about them. And at once I found I was "queering" myself. For these genial companions of mine had laid a most decided taboo upon all topics of this kind.
"'Frank, I said, 'we've a long account to settle. Somehow or other we've always been antagonistic. Why? "'How do you mean? he says. "'What have I done to you, that you should be always turning up and queering my pitch? "'Oh, you mean Gladys, he says laughing. 'No, I said, 'I don't mean Gladys particularly. I mean everything. Every time we come together you do me a bad turn.
We didn't intend to give you one, but we don't want to be too rough on you, so if you want to get out that way, and will agree to keep on queering your father's game if he starts it over again, all right. But you want to understand that we hold just as big a club over your father's head the other way." "White! Playing white! Oh, my God!" Clarie Archman had lurched up from the chair to his feet.
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