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"In other words, you force us to stay there and run a little two-by-four Improvement Company for your benefit, or else lose the value of our improvements?" "Suit yourself," answered Thorpe carelessly. "You can always log your present holdings." "Very well," cried Morrison, so suddenly in a passion that Wallace started back. "It's war!
I'm glad, however, that I've caught you two together. I suppose that little farce of pretended illness was played only for the benefit of outsiders!" "I assure you, Mr. Rushford," began Vernon quickly, but the American stopped him with a gesture. "I don't care to hear," he said. "I care nothing for your two-by-four conspiracies and intrigues. But, I repeat, I'm glad I caught both of you together.
But as no one who knew him chanced to be present, the storm broke all unannounced. "For which," he snarled out, "every cheap skate of a university professor who never did anything himself but paddle other men's canoes, for which every human phonograph and intellectual parrot sends out thanks from his two-by-four soul!
At the third jump his hat flew off, disclosing the jagged end of a two-by-four. The Happy Family groaned as one man and gave chase. Banjo, with almost human maliciousness, was heading up the road straight toward Chip and the woman doctor and she must be a poor doctor indeed, and a badly frightened one, withal, if she failed to observe a peculiarity in the horse thief's cranium.
Let's sit in togedder on dis nuggett'ing. It ain't like as if it was an ornery two-by-four deal. I wouldn't ask youse if it wasn't big enough fir de whole bunch of us. As I said nothing, he proceeded. 'It ain't square, Sam, to take advantage of your having education.
She stood shivering and gazing down into the black throat of the street. "It'll be a merry evening in that two-by-four of yours, won't it? Look at it down there. Cheerful, ain't it?" Tears formed in a glaze over her eyes. "Be a sport, Marj." "All right Blink!"
"There are two miserable little kingdoms over there.... Horrible little two-by-four principalities, that fit into the map of Europe like little, ragged chips in a mosaic.... Cousin Van lied in there to protect my disguise.... It is my father who is the Grand Duke of Maritzburg, and it is ordained that I shall marry Prince Karyl of Galavia.... It was Von Ritz's mission to remind me of my slavery."
"There's one thing it ain't," replied the other, in the same confidential tone. "It ain't no two-by-four campaign. All I got to say to you boys is: 'Foller yer leader' and you'll wear pearl collar-buttons!" "Vote a Republican," interjected Leo Vesschi gutturally. The furtiveness of Mr. Pixley increased. "Well mebbe," he responded, very deliberately.
"Whatta you going to do Christmas Eve? Sit in your two-by-four and twiddle your thumbs?" Immediate sobs rose in her throat. "Lord!" she said, "I dun'no'! I dun'no'!" He set up the jangling again. "It's Christmas Eve, Marj." "That's right, rub it in," and looked away from him. "Come, Marj, don't leave me high and dry like this. Come, I'll blow you to a little supper, kiddo.
"And you won't be anybody else for the next forty-five," he said, "I know that. But all the same, bein' a practical, more or less sane man myself, it makes me nervous to see a nice, attractive, comfortable little house standin' idle while the feller that owns it eats and sleeps in a two-by-four sawmill, so to speak. And, not only that, but won't let anybody else live in the house, either.
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