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Damn it I ain't a swearin', Mis' Root damn it, I say, she's a shuttin' 'em out! She's done it!! The race is won!!!" He jumped from the wagon and plunged into the crowd, which respectfully made way for him. "I've somethin' to tell ye, Mandy," said Mr. Roberts, some ten months later. I feel kind o' mean, too. But I done it for you; for love o' you, Mandy." "Yes, Nal; what is it?"
"I'm workin' Rainbow each day, 'n' in three weeks I take him twice around the course at a good clip. "'The hoss'll do in another week, I says to the old gent. "'I'll be ready fur you, he says, shuttin' his mouth, 'n' that was the worst week of all for Mr. Van. But he improved wonderful, 'n' one mawnin' he takes Rainbow over the course at speed.
His folks didn't care, they'd have paid a publisher any price to take his books if it would have done any good; but finally he took to shuttin' himself up in his room day and night, writin' all the time, and it told on him pretty well, for I guess he'd never wrote anything but cheques before.
"Well, if he opens it with cryin', he'll have a tough time a shuttin' on it," responded Jim, in a whisper so loud that he attracted attention. There within the bar sat Mr. Balfour, calmly examining his papers. He looked up among the assembled jurors, witnesses and idlers, and beckoned Benedict to his side. There sat Robert Belcher with his counsel.
On the seventh floor he unceremoniously flung open a door bearing the number sought, and stepped within to confront the office boy, who as instantly frowned his disapproval. "Office hours over," the latter announced shortly. "Just shuttin' up." "I am not here on business, my lad," was the good-natured reply, "but in the hope of catching Mr. Craig before he got away."
"'Well, says my lady, 'so far so good; I'm young and handsome myself, as you see, and I dare say we'll live happily enough together; and as she spoke, she pushed up an old bodice that was tied round something that resembled a dried skeleton, which it only touched at points, like a reel in a bottle, strivin', of course, to show off a good figure; she then winked both eyes, as if she was meetin' a cloud o' dust, and agin shuttin' one, as if she was coverin' me wid a rifle, whispered, 'You'll find me generous maybe, if you desarve it.
I hope he was so fussed he didn't notice that sigh of relief I let out; for I'll admit it was some able-bodied affair, a good deal like shuttin' off the air in a brake connection, or rippin' a sheet. Anyway, I made up for it the next minute. "You and Doris, eh?" says I, poundin' him on the back hearty. "Ain't you the foxy pair, though? Well, well! Here, let's have another shake on that.
Then they came into the cabin, carryin' you between 'em; and they laid you on the cabin table, and said you'd met with an accident; and I saw that your head was bleedin'. They undressed you, all in a hurry, put you in your bunk, told me to look after you, and then rushed up on deck again, shuttin' me in, just as you did.
"I reckon we must be goin'," said Billings to the others, with marked emphasis. "We're keepin' Harkutt from shuttin' up." "Good-night!" "Good-night!" added Peters and Wingate, ostentatiously following Billings hurriedly through the door. "So long!" The door closed behind them, leaving Harkutt alone with his importunate intruder.
My self respect was certainly a bulky article those days an' I wasn't in the habit of undervaluin' my own judgment not to any great extent; but that habit o' study I'd formed with Spike was my balance wheel, an' I generally managed to keep my conceit from shuttin' out the entire landscape.
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