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"Her husband has scads of money," the boy pursued. "You'll have to go on, Martie, there's no two ways about it." "And Delmonico's?" the girl suggested eagerly. "I've heard of Delmonico's!" "Delmonico's is where the wedding parties go. Of course, if you say so, Martie " That was one of the sweet and thrilling things to remember.
She's riled up, for one thing, on the nigger question says she understands a lady has to go armed to the teeth just to walk from the well to the back porch, an' that she never had learned to shoot, nohow. The Yankee feller has more scads than Ben, an' has bought an estate in New York City which he lays at her feet as an inducement.
Hoyt volunteered. "You say he has?" Mrs. Buckney took him up promptly. "Is that so? I knew he did all the time, of course, but I hadn't heard lately. Well ! Pretty hard on Mrs. Breckenridge, isn't it?" "Pretty hard on his daughter," Miss Leila drawled. "He has all kinds of money, hasn't he, Park?" "Scads," said Mr. Hoyt succinctly. Conversation languished.
Our trip will only be postponed. I'll have to fly around to rustle ready money. I'll see Bowring first." "Hold on," said Mitchell. "Why don't you let my friend in on this? He's got the scads, and he's a good fellow." "Oh, he would have to go and see the place," objected Archibald, his eye evidently on the main chance. "No, he won't. We looked it over yesterday.
Madison Wayne, the elder, was tall, well-knit and spare, reticent in speech and slow in deduction; his brother, Arthur, was of rounder outline, but smaller and of a more delicate and perhaps a more impressible nature. It was believed by some that it was within the range of possibility that Arthur would yet be seen "taking his cocktail like a white man," or "dropping his scads" at draw poker.
You shall have all the things in the world you want. I'm making scads of money. Everything I touch just rolls up into bank notes. I want you to come and spend all that money for me. Remember, Marion, your father wished it. If he were here now " "Yes!" she put in with sudden fire. "If he were here now do you know what he would say to me?" He felt that he had blundered, and made no reply.
"Whether it is so or not?" "To be sure. You must blow your own horn, my boy, if you want to get on. Humbug 'em right and left, if you look to see the scads come in fast." "I wouldn't lie just to make a little money," said Ralph so earnestly that the artist broke into a laugh. "You're in training for an angel, you are. Look out you don't starve though, before your wings sprout.
"Oh, by the way," said Dicky suddenly, before a suitable reply had come to me; "how about the scads spondulicks you know? Yesterday was pay- day, but you didn't show up." I don't know whether my jaw dropped or not. My spirits certainly did. "By Jove, Dicky!" I exclaimed, catching my breath. "It slipped my mind, clean. I haven't got at our ahem banker, either."
"Think so?" asked Trask. "Know so. Scads of it. He brung back samples in his pockets. I've told him time and time again I'd go to his island, and what's more, I would ha', only I don't own all my schooner. It's been busy up to now with gover'ment work hay for the cavalry posts down south.
Since then, there have been scads of rugged, romantic characters on all sides... You're going to ask about Miguel Ramos." She paused, looked unhappy and tired. "The celebrity," she said. "Mashed up. But he'll recover this time. I've seen him sent him flowers, sat beside him. But what do you do with a clown like that? Lock him in the closet or look at him through a telescope? Goodbye hello goodbye.
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