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"Starbuck, is that young feller Elliott any kin to Jedge Elliott in Nashville?" "That's for you to fin' out." "Wall, I didn't know, an' I come mighty nigh havin' trouble with him not long ago." "Yes, an' I reckon he come mighty nigh a robbin' me of a pleasure when the time comes." "It was about Lou." "Miss Lou, you viper." "Oh, that's all right.
No sense in robbin' you of the best months of your life, just because you hadn't sense enough to rob yourselves of it is there? Oh, I suppose I'm a kind of a sentimental cuss, but must be I like the feelin' of it." He jerked his head toward Henry. "This is April. Take her off somewhere Italy? South of France? 'till next August. Then you report back here, all fixed and ready to eat crow.
He said, you' know, that graftin' and whiskey boatin', an' robbin' the bank wa'n't none of his business. He said, course, he could write it down in his notes, but without names, 'count of somebody might read somethin' in them an' get some good friend of his in Dutch.
Fielding say dat he want cook, and say dat he will give a souvenir, and when I'm see, too, dat engine-driver man Robbin, dare, dat I'm not lak at all, and who I tink not know how for cook and yet going for get de job I'm just tink dat a good chance she's come for me to please de bosses and make somethin' good for myself, and so I'm come straight out, and say I'm de best man for de job.
"S'pose I should put my money into some sort of business and lose it. Would that be robbin' Teresa and the youngster?" "That's a different thing. Business is business. No man has a right to plunge into a reckless venture, but if it seems legitimate and he has investigated it carefully, he cannot be blamed if the venture proves a failure.
"Touch it, if ye daur, ye brute!" he yelled; but his father seized him and held him back. "'And the dogs o' the street," he quoted. David turned furiously on him. "I've half a mind to brak' ivery bone in yer body!" he shouted, "robbin' me o' what's mine and throwin' it to yon black brute!" "Whist, David, whist!" soothed the little man. "Twas but for yer ain good yer auld dad did it.
"The outsiders fell astern, lookin' heartbroke and disapp'inted that we wa'n't hung on the spot, and the fat boss policeman and us two paraded along slow but grand. I felt like the feller that was caught robbin' the poorhouse, and I cal'late Jonadab felt the same, only he was so busy beggin' and pleadin' and explainin' that he couldn't stop to feel anything.
Don't mistake me for a thief when I return." "No mistake at all if I did," returned O'Rook, "for you're stealin' a march on us all just now, an' isn't it robbin' yourself of your night's rest you are? ah! then, a wilful man must have his way; good luck go with ye." Before the sentence and the yawn that followed it were finished, Jack was on his way to the Gap.
Bein' out solely for legit'mate sport, continues Tutt, 'an' not aimin' to offend Boggs none, I willin'ly calls it fifty to one hundred he ain't got nothin'. "'Which I takes both bets, says Boggs, 'an' deems 'em easy. Which both is like robbin' a bird's-nest. Yere's the circ'latin' medium.
"It ain't once a week, but it's every day, when this yere gray-eyed sport is robbin' his roll for somebody who's settin' in ag'inst disaster. Fact; Cherokee's a heap weak that a-way. "Of course, turnin' faro, Cherokee knows who has money an' who needs it; keeps tab, so to speak, on the fluctooations of the camp's finances closer'n anybody.
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