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This was evidenced by the magnitude of the enterprises he engaged in, such as, for instance, Panama Mail, by sheer weight of money and fighting power wresting the control away from Shiftily and selling out in two months to the Harriman interests at a rumored enormous advance. Back in San Francisco, Daylight quickly added to his reputation In ways it was not an enviable reputation.
"Hit ought ter be a matter of pride with ye, Pete, ter kinderly foller in his footsteps." The son met the steady and searching gaze of his chance companion for only a moment before he shiftily looked away and, for no visible reason, flushed. "He's a mighty good man albeit a hard one," he made answer, "but some folk 'lows he's old-fashioned in his notions." "Who 'lows thet, Pete ther riders?"
"I am sorry, sir," said the servant, respectfully, "but both the gentlemen have gone out for the day." He did not look me in the face as he delivered this piece of information, but allowed his narrow eyes to drop away shiftily. "Oh, I am surprised at that," I returned, "for I have come by invitation."
Jabez looked round shiftily, and said in his unctuous voice: "My niece, surely you must obey the commands of the Elders of Israel who speak the will of Heaven, as you obeyed them when you matched yourself against the might of Amon." "You gave me a different counsel yesterday, my uncle. Then you said I had better bide where I was." The messenger turned and glared at him.
Had he seen Oakley before he would have been shocked at the change in his appearance; but as it was, the nervous, white-haired man who stood shiftily before him told him nothing of an eating secret long carried. The man's face was gray and haggard, and deep lines were cut under his staring, fish-like eyes.
She meant the words, a righteous indignation flaming her face, making her eyes shine no longer blue, but opal color. Morse wondered dully if she could and would stand out against what he would be forced to do. "I see," he began shiftily. "I have to teach you a lesson every time I come here, eh?" "This time you won't," she flashed at him. "This time I will," he taunted.
"Nuthin'," he doggedly answered. "You might as well tell the truth; we're bound to know it!" "Nuthin', I said," he looked shiftily down. "'N' I don't take no hund'ed 'n' fifty a acre, neither from no railroad!" "The same old hold-up," Brent murmured across the chess board. But the Colonel, still obsessed by the old aching worry, was just then engrossed with another thought.
"Who were sent out with him in the first place, that's what I want to know?" she said. "I were," replied Josephine in a sobbing shout. Her head was aching as if she had been scalped. "Shet up!" said Gladys's mother inconsistently. "Did your ma send her out with him?" she queried of her. "He is not a boy," replied Maria shiftily. "Yes, she did," said Josephine, still rubbing her head.
Bas roared out his rejection of that alternative with his swarthy cheekbones flaming redly, and into his rapidly and shiftily working mind came the comfort of a realization which in that first surprise and terror had escaped him.
"Oh, well, I thought I knew ye," he answers, not the least disconcerted. "How do you do? and how's your folks? All well, I hope. I took this 'ere paper, you see, to help a poor furriner, who couldn't make himself understood any more than a wild goose. I thought I 'd just start him for'ard a little. It seemed a marcy to do it." Well and shiftily answered, thou ragged Proteus.
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