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He wanted to get on, to make good, to be more than a mere "operative." And if his initial assignments gave him little but "rough-neck" work to do, he did it without audible complaint. He did bodyguard service, he handled strike breakers, he rounded up freight-car thieves, he was given occasionally "spot" and "tailing" work to do.
Coombs' words would seem to indicate that he knows I 'm a fraud. Perhaps he did n't mean that, but it sounded so. Why should they tell that rough-neck their plans, and send him down here? I 'll find out what he knows, and how he knows it, before another ten hours. If he 's here to spy on us I 'll make him earn his money." She did not look around.
But you de bes' man in all de worl' would love you." "He does, but he won't say so," Rouletta declared. "Come, must I say it for him?" One last protest the fellow voiced. "Me, I'm rough-neck man. I scarcely read an' write. But you " "I'm a gambler's daughter, nothing more a bold and forward creature. But I'm done with dealing.
No, nor one of these overdressed New-York chickens, neither, but cute and bright " "Oh, you're just flattering me, Mr. Schwirtz. Mr. Hunt told me I should watch out for you." "No, no; you got me wrong there. 'I dwell on what-is-it mountain, and my name is Truthful James, like the poet says! Believe me, I may be a rough-neck drummer, but I notice these things." "Oh!... Oh, do you like poetry?"
"Can't a fellow drop around to pick you up?" "Land that job?" "Not a chance. What they want down there is a rough-neck, not a gentleman rubber-down. Say, take it from me; after a fellow has worked in the high-class Turkish baths, Third Avenue joints ain't up to his tone no more. I got to have class, kiddo. That's why I got such a lean toward you." "Cut that." "Come down to-night, Marj?" "Where?"
Packard had already heard of him, a rowdy and a rough-neck but a capable timberjack to the calloused fingers of him. He followed the men into the saloon. At his place behind the long bar was Hodges, busy filling imperative orders, taking in the money which he counted as good as his once it left the paymaster's pocket.
He's got a say so, and he isn't here to say it." "What kind of a party might he be?" Tarwater inquired. "He's a rough-neck sailor, and he's got a quick, bad temper." "Some turbulent," Anson contributed. "And the way he can cuss is simply God-awful," Big Bill testified. "But he's square," Big Bill added. Anson nodded heartily to this appraisal.
Let's have a good look at whatever it is that makes you rough-neck sons of toil so superior to us lily-fingered employers. Go to the bat." "Well," offered Charlie, reluctantly, "to begin with, you are a millionaire, a university man, member of select clubs; I am nothing but a common workman." John returned, quickly, "We are both citizens of the United States.
"I try him once- -cookin' for gang of rough-neck' but I mak' joke an' I'm fire'. Dem feller kick 'bout my grub an' it mak' me mad, so one day I sharpen all de table-knife. I put keen edge on dem lak razor." The speaker showed his white teeth in a flashing smile. "Dat's meanes' trick ever I play. Sapre! Dem feller cut deir mouth so fast dey mos' die of bleedin'. No, I ain't hired man for nobody.
Deely made a motion like a swoop of an aeroplane to earth "and here he is buckin' about like a rough-neck same as you and me; but yet a gent, a swell, a cream della cream, that's turned his back on a lady a lady not his own wife, that's my sure and sacred belief." "You certainly have got women on the brain," retorted Sibley. "I ain't ever seen such a man as you.
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