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I licked you once in the old days, and I guess I could do it now, but I don't want to. Come and have a drink with old Andy." "Andy? Andy the Spieler? Andy Certain?" "Dr. L. André Surtaine, at your service. Now, will you shake?" Still surly, Mr. McQuiggan hung back. "What about that roast?" he demanded. "Wasn't sure of you. Twenty years is a long time.
He turned them down, in order; methodically, even listlessly moved them to and fro, yet with light, sure, well-nigh bewildering touch. Suddenly lifted his hands. "All set. A dollar you don't face up the ace at first try." She laughed, bantering. "Oh, Bob! You're too easy. I wonder you aren't broke. You're no monte spieler. Is this your best?"
"You don't call this grand country!" exclaimed the other passenger, who claimed to be, and looked like, a commercial traveller, and might have been a professional spieler quite possibly both. "Why, it's about the poorest country in New Zealand! You ought to see some of the country in the North Island Wairarapa and Napier districts, round about Pahiatua. I call this damn poor country."
"I suppose it's all right if you know him, but to me he looked like a bagman or bike-rider or something in the spieler line." "Oh no," and pulling my boa about me I smiled to think of the chagrin of Dora.
"Just do that trick again, will you, for the benefit of my friend here?" bade the Colonel. The "spieler" a thin-lipped, cadaverous individual, his soft hat cavalierly aslant, his black hair combed flatly in a curve down upon his damp forehead, a pair of sloe eyes, and a flannel shirt open upon his bony chest glanced alert. He smiled. "Hello, sir. I'm agreeable. Yes, sir.
It is, so to say, merely a 'demand' reputation one that men reserve the right to recall at any moment. And the worst of it is, if they ever do recall it, you are worse off than when before they extended the brittle bauble to you." "Jingo, John! For a stage blacksmith you are some spieler." De Spain added an impatient, not to say contumelious exclamation concerning the substance of Lefever's talk.
It seemed no time before the beast was kinder staggerin' around like a drunk man, and the spieler hollerin' for Pa to let go. 'You win, he says, 'you win get off you can have everything you want. Dang it, man, you're killing that mule. "So Pa's pretty busy keeping his grip, but he says, 'I'm trying a new hold, he says, 'and I'll try it on you next, unless you apol-o-gises.
He seeks the girl who sits alone against the wall; he dances with her and brings other partners to her. It would not do for a place to get the reputation of slowness. The girls go back to those dance halls where they have had the best time. The spieler is not uncommonly a worthless fellow; sometimes he is a sinister creature, who lives on the earnings of unfortunate girls.
Steelman was a hard case, but some said that Smith was harder. Steelman was big and good-looking, and good-natured in his way; he was a spieler, pure and simple, but did things in humorous style. Smith was small and weedy, of the sneak variety; he had a whining tone and a cringing manner.
Now you assume that a world which produces a Percy Bresnahan and a Velvet Motor Company must be civilized. It is? Aren't we only about half-way along in barbarism? I suggest Mrs. Bogart as a test. And we'll continue in barbarism just as long as people as nearly intelligent as you continue to defend things as they are because they are." "You're a fair spieler, child.
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