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He smoked. "Go on, Shot," said the General, "you were going to give an instance." "Yes, seh. Take Leggett, in the case o' this so-called University." "That's hardly a good example," remarked Proudfit, who, for Dixie's and Susie's sake, regretted that Shotwell was talking so much and he so little. "Let him alone," said Halliday, thoroughly pleased, and Shotwell went on stoutly.
They went on a still hunt after the first-mortgage bonds, "bought," said Proudfit, "the whole bilin' faw a song," foreclosed the mortgage, and at the sale of the Land Company's assets were the only bidders, except Senator Halliday and Captain Shotwell, whom they easily outbid. "Right smart of us suspicioned those two gentlemen were bidding faw you, John."
"Is that your worst?" said the Englishman; "ye should know some of ours!" "O, yes, seh," exclaimed Shotwell, "of co'se ev'y country's got 'em bad enough. But here, seh, we've not on'y the dabkey's natu'al-bawn rascality to deal with, but they natu'l-bawn stupidity to boot. Evm Gen'l Halliday'll tell you that, seh."
In the Institutes of Manu, a code of civil law as well as religious law, written about the ninth century before Christ, is found a description of creation, the nature of God, and rules for the duty of man in every station of life from the moment of birth to death. Professor James T. Shotwell when speaking of paganism reminds us, "Who of us can appreciate antique paganism?
Julia stared sombrely through the drenched glass, now and then kissing the perfumed top of the little silk cap that covered the drowsy head on her breast. It was a long trip to Shotwell Street; for all her family's peculiarities, it was rather a sad trip to-day. She let her thoughts drift on to the coming changes in her life.
I remarked to him that there seemed to exist quite an excitement in his city during the week past, over an old lady who took a few articles of under- clothes and a quilt or two to Fairbanks. "O, yes; were you in the city?" "I was, and was surprised at the excitement produced by her presence." "Well, I suppose Shotwell did make a great stir over his loss of a house-servant.
"And anyhow" his tongue thickened and his head waggled playfully "anyhow, Shot, a ladies' man's just got to keep his breath sweet, ain't he?" Shotwell looked as though the rolling earth had struck something. March paled, but he took the Captain's cigar to light his own as he remarked: "I don't get the meaning of that expression as clear as I wish you'd make it, Colonel."
"Captain Shotwell, I'll thaynk you not to allude to that person to me again, seh!" She jerked one knee over the other and folded her arms. "My dea' madam! I was thoughtless! Fawgive me!" The Captain stood up. "I'm not myself to-day. Not but what I'm sobeh; but I oh, I'm in trouble! But what's that to you?"
The Shotwell case was the third he had lost for the company in a single court term. Justice for the railroad company, under present agrarian conditions, was not to be had in the lower courts, and he was weary of fighting the losing battle. Therefore In the midst of the type-rattling the boy that served the few occupied offices in the Farquhar Building had brought the afternoon mail.
John would sing; Shotwell would lie back on the pine-needles with his eyes shut, and each time the singer reached the refrain, "Mary, Mary, queen of my soul," the impassioned listener would fetch a whoop and cry, "That's her!" although everybody had known that for years the only "her" who had queened it over Shotwell's soul was John's own Fannie Halliday.
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