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Two positions were open to her at the same time, one as a book-keeper, the other as writer for a certain department in a third-rate magazine. She chose to be a book-keeper, for she knew that if she took the magazine work she must write whether in the spirit or not, and that the rank of the magazine was such that she would have little encouragement to do her best.
But inside this uncomfortable appearance of washed-out brick and well-ripened wood, there was comfort and cleanliness and quiet. The front room, with its stiff cane rocker and chairs, its round table and well-adorned mantelpiece, its cretonne-covered lounge and tapestry carpet, was not a bad sample at all, of a drawing-room in a third-rate boarding house.
I'd rather be running a little, third-rate detective agency as I am, making just enough to get along, and have a lot of friends. I wouldn't throw down a friend for a million dollars! I suppose I'm the only man in town that thinks this way, but I'm a sort of peculiar duck!" "You mean to tell me that you are not anxious to better yourself, to get along in the world?" "Oh, I manage to get along!"
Must you joke about everything? I believe you will find something to laugh at in the marriage service. That thing I have told you is the most serious and horrible experience of my life, and yet you treat it as if I were acting a part in a melodrama in a third-rate theatre! Sometimes I think I hate you." Dartmouth caught her in his arms and forced her to sit down again beside him.
They had slept in sod houses on the Platte River, made the acquaintance of the personnel of a third-rate opera company on the train to Deadwood, dined in a camp of railroad constructors at the world's end beyond New Castle, gone through the Black Hills on horseback, fished for trout in Dome Lake, watched a dance at Cripple Creek, where the lost souls who hide in the hills gathered for their besotted revelry.
In form they were the greeting of a third-rate chimney-sweep, but, strangely enough, Theodore Racksole liked their tone. He said to himself that here, precisely where no one would have expected to find one, was an honest man. 'Good day, said Racksole briefly. 'To what do I owe the pleasure 'I expect your time is limited, answered Sampson Levi.
The main-mast of one of their largest junks is equal in size to that of our third-rate men of war, but all of one piece, not built. Fearing the approach of a storm, and wanting sea-room, we weighed on the 3d June, and stood out to sea; but next day we were assailed by the most violent tempest at N.E. I ever saw, which lasted at intervals for three days, when the weather became quite serene.
Yes, sir' he says, 'it doesn't need MUCH brains, he says, 'an only third-rate brains, at that, he says, 'but it does need a special KIND o' brains, he says, 'to be a millionaire. I mean, he says, 'when a man's given a start. If nobody gives him a start, why, course he's got to have luck AND the right kind o' brains.
It is not great art, it is not profoundly significant, it is often frankly third-rate, but it is genuine; and therefore I rate the artisans of the Ecole Martine with the best contemporary painters, not as artists, but as manifestations of the movement. I am no devout lover of rag-time and turkey-trotting, but they too are manifestations.
It proved to be Millefleur or Miller and his raving was as overdone as that of a third-rate actor. Madame was trying to calm him. "Henri, Henri, don't go on so," she was saying. "A suicide in the Novella. It will be in all the papers. We shall be ruined. Oh oh!" "Here, can that sob stuff," broke in one of O'Connor's officers. "You can tell it all when the chief takes you to headquarters, see?"
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