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Updated: May 13, 2025
Equally distasteful were those who equalled him in wealth alone, for by a strange contradiction, the very fact that the rumshop did not jar on their sensibilities, marked them for him as coarse and uncongenial. Weston had turned to himself. It is the study of oneself that makes cynics. The study of others makes egotists. Then a woman had come.
No other rumshop tolerated in the section, and pocket peddlers run out of town on a rail! No treating, no foolishness, no fraud. Pays her fine twice a year without going to court, the same as you. And no extras!" He smiled at the chairman significantly. "No extras, eh!" mused Mr. Presson, enviously. "You must have a different crowd of county officers than we've got down our way."
There was, in the outskirts of the town, the inevitable rumshop, fed, it was said, by an illicit still in the woods, and there as usual Satan held high carnival among families dead in trespasses and sins. There we assayed to hold temperance prayer-meetings, but they loved darkness rather than light, and we cast our pearls before swine, who turned and rent us.
'Fifteen hundred devils! cried I, 'FIVE hundred would rot his principles, paralyze his industry, drag him to the rumshop, thence to the gutter, thence to the almshouse, thence to 'WHY put upon ourselves this crime, gentlemen? interrupted the poet earnestly and appealingly. 'He is happy where he is, and AS he is.
Then the ramrodders have got the law to hoorah about and read over in the parlor, and they'll go right past such a place as we saw down the street there and not know it's a rumshop. After they get all the law they ask for, it's a part of their game to say that the rumshops aren't doing business.
Even if he lied 'bout his age and did git to be a sort of a ship's boy on a sailin' vessel, you and me know what that means nowadays. I presume likely 'twould end in his bein' killed in some rumshop scrimmage later on. Let me see. Bound to be a sailor, is he?" "He's dead sot on it." "More fool he. Comes from readin' them ridic'lous story books, I s'pose.
'Fifteen hundred devils! cried I, 'FIVE hundred would rot his principles, paralyze his industry, drag him to the rumshop, thence to the gutter, thence to the almshouse, thence to 'WHY put upon ourselves this crime, gentlemen? interrupted the poet earnestly and appealingly. 'He is happy where he is, and AS he is.
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