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He staid still there a good long spell, and the minister and Huldy left him there and come up to the house; but they hadn't more than got in the door before they see old Tom a hippin' along, as high-steppin' as ever, sayin' 'Talk! talk! and quitter! quitter! and struttin' and gobblin' as if he'd come through the Red Sea, and got the victory. "'Oh, my eggs! says Huldy.
"On the contrary," said Flint, blinking in the golden spring sunshine as he peered out over the swashing brine at a raucous knot of gulls, "on the contrary, Wally, I'm going to push it as fast as the Lord will let me. You can come in, or not, as you see fit but remember this, no quitter ever gets a daughter of mine! And another thing; we're in the year 1921, now, not 1910 or 1915.
"Of course you have," she said with complete conviction. "You're not a quitter, and you can't hide here like a criminal." "We'll have to be moving, Bee," her father reminded her. "You know we have an appointment to meet the district attorney." Beatrice nodded. With a queer feeling of repulsion she patted her fiancé's cheek with her soft hand and whispered a word of comfort to him.
"So Moxlow's in earnest about wishing to make trouble for me?" said Gilmore, still placidly. "Oh, he's in earnest, all right." Langham shrugged his shoulders petulantly. "He'll go after you, and perhaps by the time he's done with you you'll wish you'd taken my advice and made yourself scarce!" "I'm no quitter!" rejoined Gilmore, chewing thoughtfully at the end of his cigar.
Lordy massy! you might as well 'a' tried to get it out an old tom-turkey, that'll strut and gobble and quitter, and drag his wings on the ground, and fly at you, but won't say nothin'. Quassy she screeched her queer sort o' laugh; and she told 'em that they was a makin' fools o' themselves, and that the cap'n's matters wa'n't none o' their bisness; and that was true enough.
"You know it's just because I hate to quit." "That's straight. You're no quitter. Shouldn't wonder if you held on to this dam problem till you swallowed it." "Stow the kidding," said Blake, embarrassed. "I'm giving it to you straight. This dam has made a lot of good ones quit. I'm about ready to quit, myself. But I'll be switched if I don't think you'll make a go of it, Tommy." "In your eye!"
"I'll say I can," she replied. "You're sorry for me?" he went on, gently. "Sorry!... Give me a chance to prove what I am, Daren Lane." "Very well, then. I will. We'll make a fifty-fifty bargain. Do you regard a promise sacred?" "I think I do. Some of the girls quarrel with me because I get sore, and swear they're not square, as I try to be. I hate a liar and a quitter."
The Lord hates a quitter, and so do I. I nearly quit myself, once; eh, Rajah, old top? But I made them come to me. That's the milk in the cocoanut, the curry on the rice. They almost had me. Two rupees! It truly is a great world." "Jah, jah, jah! Jah jah jah ja-a-a-h!" screamed the parrot. "Chaloo!" "Go on! That's the ticket. If I were a praying man, this would be the time for it.
We can't go on like this." "Suppose I just go to war and and don't come back?" thickly inquired the sufferer. "That won't do. You won't get killed fellows like you never do. Wouldn't you rather have her know the truth than believe you to be a quitter?" Ellsworth waited a minute. "Do you want me to tell her for you, Dave?" Law shook his head slowly, wearily. "No, I'll do it. I'm game.
It was as if Wayland's spirit stood back and listened to the conflicting contentions of two other men, the one who wanted to breast the stream and the one who wanted to go with the current; one full of blind, red-blood courage, the other full of cold white-corpuscled argument; one a zealous sportsman playing the game for the game's zest, the other a quitter because he foresaw no gain.
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