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Even if he had managed during his brief absence yesterday to make a hurried inspection, and suspected that the blackleg' plot had failed, he couldn't be certain enough to take a chance like this. The foreman's manner gave Buck no clue.
Grey, what am I to understand?" asked the quiet Chevalier de Boeffleurs, with the air of a wolf and the voice of a lion. "Understand, sir!" answered Vivian, sternly, "that I am not one who will be bullied by a blackleg." "Grey! good God! what do you mean?" asked the Baron. "That which it is my duty, not my pleasure, to explain, Baron von Konigstein."
What kind of a business man would I be if I left this to McVicker and Ord? No, I'm going to send to San Francisco, and Denver, and Butte, and retain every mining attorney I can get. It's the only thing to do; but listen, my friend, I'm not going to tell anybody but you. So if Stoddard finds this out, or McVicker and Ord, or whatever blackleg lawyers Ike Bray has, I'll just know where to go.
"He is dead and buried," said Mark, with his eyes more than half-shut now; "and if Richard Frayne rose from the dead no one would believe his tale." "Will you accept my terms, or must I denounce you as one who has proved treacherous to his friend, acted like a blackleg at cards, and who obtained a hundred pounds by forging his cousin's name, and whose title and estate he now holds?"
Believe he's nothing but a great poaching blackleg. Hasn't the faintest outlines of a gentleman about him not the slightest particle not the remotest glimmerin'.
But it was not the same by any means. While the Western Palace was a first-class hotel in every respect, the Palace of the West was a weak imitation, run by a man who had once been a notorious San Francisco blackleg. The hotel was soon reached and Bradner led the way into the office, which was filled with rather rough-looking sports, all smoking and talking loudly.
Why, there is your friend Bloundell-Bloundell is a professional blackleg, and travels the Continent, where he picks up young gentlemen of fashion and fleeces them. There is Bob O'Toole, with whom I was at school, who drives the Ballynafad mail now, and carries honest Jack Finucane's own correspondence to that city.
This might readily be accounted for by the fact that the work now lay on the other side of the outfit, but Buck was convinced that their real purpose was to allow the blackleg scourge to gain as great a hold as possible on Shoe-Bar cattle before its discovery.
"True, upon my honor, Sir George," said he; "I saw it myself, and she did it just as dexterously as the oldest blackleg in Paris." "Why, you don't mean to say that she cheated?" "Yes, but I do, though, turned the ace every time. Lady Herbert said to me, 'Very extraordinary it is, four by honors again. So I looked, and then I perceived it, a very old trick it is; but she did it beautifully.
The trade-unionists would not hear him hurled names at him "thief," "blackleg" as he attempted to speak.
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