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Pretty soon they saw Clover below on Professor Seccomb's arm. He was a kingly, pleasant man, with a bald head, and it was a fashion among the girls to admire him. "Doesn't she look pretty?" said Rose. "Just notice Mrs. Searles, Katy. She's grinning at Clover like the Cheshire cat. What a wonderful cap that is of hers! She had it when Sylvia was here at school, eight years ago."
You can see his black head sticking up out of the heart of the riot." As Cappy and Redell joined the crowd Jim Searles, by acclamation the auctioneer of the Port of San Francisco, rapped smartly with his little gavel, and a tense silence settled over the crowd. "This," Mr. Searles announced, "will be a fight to a finish, winner take all.
"That was settled when you mailed that letter for me. It was to make an appointment with an American playwright who wants me to appear in a most adorable comedy." "His name is Dick Searles," I said, "and he's my most intimate friend."
Gus, I got a lot of low-down information on those two young pups; they're trying to slip something over on the old dog." "Well, they'll never teach him any new tricks, Cappy." "You know it! I observe that, as usual, Jim Searles will conduct the auction. He's climbing up on the block now, and, by the Toenails of Moses, Matt Peasley is on the job! Look, Gus!
An' Elsie says she's prepared to swear he talked Goiman easy enough to her." "We'll consider his case later, Dutch. The matter is delicate, most delicate." If I had expected Searles and his play to be introduced into the table-talk, I was doomed to disappointment. A dozen times I smothered an impulse to tell Alice and Mrs.
He added that he sometimes felt that Americans were too selfish, too much in love with the vulgar dollar. Colonel Harris, wounded in his patriotism, now showed that he was a little disturbed. He thanked Searles for his deep interest in Americans, adding, "We are glad you have come to study Americans and America." Then looking the Englishman full in the face he said, "Mr.
"Oh no, Colonel, that fight was a British victory." "Father," said Gertrude, "Mr. Searles is right; the British troops, under General Gage, drove the American forces off both Breed's Hill and Bunker Hill.
Searles, whenever America can command, as Great Britain does to-day, cheap capital, cheap labor, and cheap raw materials, she too may vociferously advocate free trade, and that other nations shall open wide their markets for the sale of American products. "Don't you see, Mr. Searles, that protection and free trade are equally selfish and not philanthropic principles?" "Mr.
"A very good business your company did, and you made large profits, Colonel Harris," said Searles.
Searles inquired again: "Colonel Harris, you omitted to state your conditions." Harris answered, "I must have cash enough to guarantee the sale, and short time payments for the balance." "Well, Colonel Harris, how would the following terms please you?
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