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See? Now you help me out on this and I'll see that you don't suffer for it. I'll stick in a good word for you, believe me. You take the word of an old stager like me and you won't go far " The door opened. Simultaneously three figures sprang into action. Jock had the seat nearest the door.
If they pretend to they're after something else. Take the word of an old stager for that. Of course there is no such thing as companionship among women as men understand the term, but you have Society, which is really all you want. Yearnings are merely a symptom of those accursed nerves. For God's sake forget them.
The rapid extension of the wires increased the responsibilities and multiplied the difficulties yearly, but the right man was in the right position, and everything worked smoothly. The extensive and elaborate System of railroad telegraphs which is in use on all the railroads of the West and Northwest owes its existence to General Stager.
Stager at breakfast, instead of the butler and the butler's man, who had hitherto served him at the earlier hour. There were others, somewhat remote from him, at table, who were ending when he was beginning, and when they had joked themselves out of the room and away from Mrs. Stager's ministrations he was left alone to her.
When he saw me interested in him, he turned and ran down toward the beach. I did not follow. He came back and went through the same performance. Then he got angry and caught me by the foot of the overalls, trying to pull me in the direction he wanted. It struck me then that an old stager, like Mike was, would not misbehave himself as he was doing for the mere fun of it.
He had instantly appreciated a quality of motherliness in her attitude towards him, and now he was sensible of a kindly intimacy to which he rather helplessly addressed himself. "Well, Mrs. Stager, did you see a ghost on your way to bed?" "I don't know as I really expected to," she said. "Won't you have a few more of the buckwheats?" "Do you think I'd better? I believe I won't.
When the ladies had withdrawn, one of the younger men, in a conversation about a certain magazine, remarked: 'Thomas always maintains that it was killed by that solemn old stager, Alfred Yule. By the way, he is dead himself, I hear. Jasper bent forward. 'Alfred Yule is dead? 'So Jedwood told me this morning. He died in the country somewhere, blind and fallen on evil days, poor old fellow.
From the organization of the Western Union Telegraph Company, General Stager has had the executive management of its lines as general superintendent, and the position has not only brought him into close relations with all connected in any way with the telegraph, but has given him a larger circle of business acquaintances than it falls to the lot of most men to possess.
My uncle had been an old stager at Saratoga a beau of the "purest water," as he laughingly described himself and he was enabled to explain all that it was necessary for me to know.
I assured him that I could not tell, that I had never allowed one to leave the watering-place, or to buy any liquor: the only thing that they had to drink was a little cocoa-nut milk, which, as it was so very hot, I thought there could be no objection to. Mr Falcon smiled and said, "Mr Simple, I'm an old stager in the West Indies, and I'll let you into a secret.
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