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"I thought I was great at poker by the way I gathered in the beaver-skins at the Rendezvous, but here the slick devils beat me without half trying. When they'd slap down a bully pair, they'd screech and laugh worse than trappers on a spree. "Says one, 'Mr. Hatcher, I reckon you're a hoss at poker away in your country, but you can't shine down here you ain't nowhere.
Presently, Van Dam seized me by the shoulder, quite out of breath, puffin' and blowin' like a porpoise. "'Mr Slick? said he. "'Yes, sais I, 'what's left of me; but good gracious, sais I, 'you have got the 'heaves. I hope it ain't catchin'. "'No I haven't, said he, 'but your cussed hoss has, and nearly broke my neck.
You let me perpose Miss Matchin's name and then go and tell her father that I put it through, and it'll be done slick as a whistle. That's all solid, ain't it?" Farnham's brow clouded. He did not answer at once. Pennybaker repeated his question a little anxiously: "That's all solid, ain't it?" "You will excuse me, Mr. Pennybaker, if I do not quite understand your racket, as you call it.
Well, he looks well; but he is 'a broke hoss. He reminds you of Sam Slick; cause when you see a hoss, you think of his master: but he don't remind you of the rael 'Old Clay, that's a fact. "Take a day here, now in town; and they are so identical the same, that one day sartificates for another.
And old man Packard, his hands on his hips, a look of absolute, ineffable content in his eyes, said softly: "I've made a mistake or two in my life, Guy Little. But ain't I lived long enough to squeeze in a blunder or so here an' there? An' I've made a mistake a time or two on a man." "Blenham did fool you pretty slick," suggested Guy Little.
Well, sir, 'twas too slick the way they managed. Right alongside them willers there was one o' them little skiffs that's stuck round the island for show, or one jest like 'em. It lay jest where that little woody strip 'ud come right 'tween the island and the other side, an' 'twas all dark there. Wal, they all run that way crost the grass, an' me after 'em, close as 'twas safe to git.
She air goin' slick, and that's a fact!" "Yes," replied the worthy captain, whose face beamed with good humour and satisfaction at the splendid run the vessel was making; "we are going ahead, working down our southing, and will soon be able to steer for New Zealand. She does walk along, and no mistake!"
Peaney puts five thousand right beside it. You see it all the time. If you come out right, you just pick up the money and walk off." "No!... Say! That's slick, hain't it? Wisht you'd come along when we try, Miss O'Toole. Somehow I'd feel easier in my mind if you was along.... See you early in the mornin'.... Got to git to bed, now. Always aim to be in bed by nine.... G' night."
For a little, things went better; Schwarz was reported to have said that she had talent, great talent, and that he would make something of her; but soon, she was complaining anew: if there were any difference between Czerny and Bertini, Haydn and Dussek, some one might "slick up" and tell her what it was.
But all the time his eyes were upon us, measuring the effect of his words. Oh, he was a sly beast, a "slick one," as Beasley said. "Which is the lad who beheld this ghost?" he added. The second mate shoved Oscar forward so that he stood in the light that streamed up from the cabin. "So one little ghost scared you, eh?" says he to poor trembling Oscar.
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