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'Surely, now that you've SEEN the brute 'It's no good abusing him. 'You must admit there's nothing Miltonic about him, Soames. 'I don't say he's not rather different from what I expected. 'He's a vulgarian, he's a swell-mobsman, he's the sort of man who hangs about the corridors of trains going to the Riviera and steals ladies' jewel-cases. Imagine eternal torment presided over by HIM!
By this time she was standing; and without answering, she began mechanically to get on her cloak and hat. 'You must drink some wine first; he may frighten you, perhaps. You must take it, Rachel, or I'll not go. Stanley Lake was swearing, in his low tones, like a swell-mobsman to-night. Rachel seemed to have made up her mind to submit passively to whatever he required.
You may well believe him a choice flower in the bouquet of the corporation; we mean the corporation that banquets and becomes jubilant while assassins stab their victims in the broad street that becomes befogged while bands of ruffians disgrace the city with their fiendish outrages that makes presidents and drinks whiskey when the city would seem given over to the swell-mobsman when no security is offered to life, and wholesale harlotry, flaunting with naked arms and bared bosoms, passes along in possession of Broadway by night.
Happily she came to no harm. She was spared from any encounter with a travelling swell-mobsman, who would have garotted her for the sake of her watch and purse, or an insolent bagman, who would have made himself obnoxiously agreeable on account of her pretty face." "I suppose she has been in the habit of going about the world by herself. That accounts for her rather strong-minded air."
And the landlord had ever insisted that no one, no one at all, could always distinguish with certainty between a real gent and a swell-mobsman. So her father and Mr. Pank had deceived everyone in the hotel except herself, and they meant to rob the safe in the bureau to-morrow night. Of course Mr.
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