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He looked at her out of his pale-green furtive eyes, and locked the door with a vindictive snap of the bolts. "I'll tell you why, my gay young welcher, for we may as well understand one another, from the start. Now that Penfield's shut up his Newport place and is coolin' his heels up in Montreal for a few months, I'm runnin' this nickel-plated ranch myself.
Above all, I who had been his friend and benefactor. He knew I was more of a gentleman than he could ever hope to be, he with no ability at anything but spending money; he a sponge and a cadger, yes, and a welcher for wasn't he doing his best to welch me?
Bloomfield took the sensible course, also, of announcing that, as quite enough questions had been asked about the race, he should not allow any more on that subject. Whereupon Mr Tucker, the Welcher, rose and put a question on another matter.
And therefore, however hard he worked this term, he would never rise above eighteenth classic in the eyes of the school, and that was not well, he would have liked to be a little higher for the sake of Willoughby! The outlook was not encouraging. Even Wibberly, the toady, and Silk, the Welcher, were better men than he was at classics.
"Rupees one hundred and forty, and I want it now, you sneak!" "But I told you I couldn't square up until the first of the month." "You had no business to play poker, then, if you knew you couldn't settle." "Who asked me to play?" shrilled the other. "You did. Well, I haven't got the money." "You miserable little welcher! That ring is worth a hundred and forty."
The Welcher monitor was clever to a certain degree, and although he never chose to devote his cleverness to good purposes, he usually managed to get himself listened to when he chose to take the trouble. And at present, his peculiar position as the deposed head of Welch's gave a certain interest to what he had to say. Bitter enough it was.
Lil. Loure. Loafer. Maunder. Moke. Parny. Posh. Queer. Raclan. Bivvy. Rigs. Moll. Distarabin. Tiny. Toffer. Tool. Punch. Wardo. Welcher. Yack. Lushy. A Mull. Pross. Toshers. Up to Trap. Barney. Beebee. Cull, Culley. Jomer. Bloke. Duffer. Niggling. Mug. Bamboozle, Slang, and Bite. Rules to be observed in determining the Etymology of Gipsy Words.
They were absolutely useless for the desired purpose. The average French buyer, however, is not a welcher. He accepted the undesirable stuff, but with a comment in French that, translated into the frankest American, means, "Never again!" All this oversight is aided and abetted by a twin evil, a lack of knowledge of the French language.
"He wasn't a friend," protests Vincent. "It was Izzy Goldheimer, who used to work in the bond room before I came. He's with a Curb firm now and has been trying for months to work me for tips on Corrugated holdings. Promised me a percentage. But he was a welcher, and I knew it. So when I did give him a tip it it was that kind." "Hm-m-m!" says Old Hickory, wrinklin' his bushy eyebrows.
This is too good this is something you can't afford to miss, you damned welcher!" He poured the scalding liquor down the other's throat. Some of it spilled and ran into the hollow of his neck; some of it dribbled on his limp collar and his coat lapels. But Durkin took what he could, and was glad of it. The pain of his wounded arm was very acute.
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