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"To attempt to explain to a New Yorker why any one might prefer to live in any other place would be a difficult task." "You are incomprehensible, Peter," she declared. And yet she felt a relief that surprised her, and a desire to get away from the subject. "Dear old St. Louis! Somehow, in spite of your greatness, it seems to fit you." "It's growing," said Peter and they laughed together.
'I thought he must be a New Yorker, said Jules, after a brief, significant pause, 'but he talks as good English as you or me. Says he wants an "Angel Kiss" maraschino and cream, if you please every night. I'll see he doesn't stop here too long. Miss Spencer smiled grimly in response.
The bowling he had had so far had been tame. This would be the real ordeal. As the ball left Burgess's hand he began instinctively to shape for a forward stroke. Then suddenly he realised that the thing was going to be a yorker, and banged his bat down in the block just as the ball arrived.
The widow herself dropped the bars into place, for she had come out of her chamber and heard the conversation between her son and the Yorker. Now Enoch ran to one of the loopholes from which he could observe the movements of the man who had shot at him in so cowardly a manner. He saw that the surveyor, who had thus far kept in the background, was expostulating with the angry man.
As Bansemer arose to say good-night to the others, Harbert's eyes met his with deadly directness. "Where are your offices, Mr. Bansemer?" asked the New Yorker. There was something significant in the question. "Mr. Rigby and I have offices in the same building," he replied. "Will you come in and see me?" "I shall try," said the other.
"Don't let's worry about that," said Collins; "sufficient be it that he is hitting these Buller's swine all over the place. Oh, good shot!" A half-volley had landed first bounce among the masters sitting under the wall. The umpire signalled six. One hundred and fifty went up. And then Gordon mistimed a slow yorker, and was clean bowled for eighty-five.
"You mean " "That the signatures are clever forgeries." His statement was heard with gravity. Taylor exchanged a meaning look with the New Yorker. "You mean your signature is a forgery," he suggested. "Rochester had a peculiar gift of penmanship." Kent sprang up. "Do you accuse Philip Rochester of signing these checks and inserting my name to them?" "I do," calmly.
It got him a job as manager of a Broadway hotel, and for a while he managed Senator O'Grady's campaign in the nineteenth. "Denver was a New Yorker all over. I think he was out of the city just twice before the time I'm going to tell you about. Once he went rabbit-shooting in Yonkers. The other time I met him just landing from a North River ferry.
When ours gets to the theatre Ben is paying the driver while the New Yorker feebly protests that he ought to pay his half of the bill, but Ben don't hear him and don't hear him again when he wants to pay for his own seat in the theatre. I got my first suspicion of this guy right there; for a genuine New Yorker he was too darned conscientious about paying his mere share of everything.
Sometimes they are better Americans than the New Yorker or the Bostonian who lives in Beacon Street or the Bowery and votes in the elections. They may be born and reside where they please, but they belong to us, and, in the better sense, they are among us. Broadway and Washington Street, Vermont and Colorado extend all over Europe.
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