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Updated: May 6, 2025
"Sink my soul," flouts Gillam, looking insolently down the table to the rows of ragged sailors sitting beyond our officers, "if every man o' your rough-scuff had the nine lives of a cat, their nine lives would be shot down before they reached our palisades!" "Is it a wager?" demands M. Radisson. "A wager ship and fort and myself to boot if you win!" "Done!" cries La Chesnaye.
Rose heard her through, and then very kindly informed her that "she was a fool to care for such a rough-scuff." In a few days, preparations were commenced for moving Rose to Glenwood, and in the excitement of getting ready, she in a measure forgot the tallow candles and patchwork bedquilt, the thoughts of which had so much shocked her at first.
All the rough-scuff of the countryside promptly gathered there, and elbowed, with equal indifference, the honest miner, the less honest saloon-keeper, and the capitalist, the degree of whose claim to that laudatory adjective was not to be so easily fixed. No one seemed out of place in the crazy, zigzag streets, no sound seemed foreign to this new, conglomerate atmosphere.
"Yes, they'd probably have given me a beating. People do things in hot blood they wish they hadn't afterward. I know this Oakville rough-scuff. Since we've had it out, and they know what to expect, they'll give me a wide berth. Now go and sleep. You were never safer in your life."
"'To-morrow there will be a separate cell vacant, the keeper told me to inform you." "Can it be true? Oh, what happiness!" cried Germain. "The good man was right; it is good news you tell me." "I think so; for your place is not with rough-scuff like us, Germain."
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