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"Vulgar, evidently just set up to be somebody don't understand it," rejoined a third, shrugging his shoulders. Mr. Gusher, who had assisted the lady in beating up her recruits, had assured them that the Chapmans were very distinguished people. Mrs. Chapman was not more successful in setting up a carriage of her own.
He had never before attempted to speak in public, and he had a queer, dry tightening of the throat. But as soon as he began to talk the words he wanted came easily enough. "Jackpot Number Three has come in a big gusher," he said, lifting his voice so that it would carry to the edge of the crowd. Hundreds of men in the crowd owned stock in the Jackpot properties.
The scoundrel who maltreats a woman receives far less punishment than is inflicted on a teacher who gives a young Clerkenwell ruffian a stripe with a switch; while the howling shrew who spends a man's money in drink, empties his house, screeches at him by the hour together, is not censured at all nay, the ordinary "gusher" would say that "the agonised woman vents the feelings of her overcharged heart."
"Of course she remembers," said her master, "She's the same one told your fortune when you were here before." "I asked her if I was going to amount to anything in the world, and she nodded her head three times. I felt like sending her a present when Gaylor made me foreman, and again when I got my ranch. She ought to have had a diamond crown when the gusher came.
There in the bottom of the boat was the bucket containing the black sand and discolored dollars the capital stock of the great Kidd Discovery Company which Chapman and Gusher affected to guard with particular care. They reached Nyack the next day about noon, looking fatigued and careworn, for they had enjoyed but little sleep since leaving.
And I suppose you trust me? You can. But don't go any farther unless you're sure you want to." "I do want to!" burst out the Spaniard. "I've wanted to from the first since you helped me about the clothes. Only you're a reserved fellow yourself. I didn't care to have you think me a gusher. You guessed why I begged for the clothes?" "I didn't let myself dwell on it too much."
Excitement was still raging. Half the camp was down at Zip's claim watching the miracle of the oil gusher, and the other half was either on their way thither or returning from it. Some of them were gathering the raw oil in cans and tubs, others were hurrying to do so. And none of them quite knew why they were doing it, or what, if any, the use they could put the stuff to.
"Well, I don't think we shall agree about Mr. Gusher. The truth is, mother I don't know why but then I don't think I ever can love him. But then, you know, mother, I have not seen him yet; and you would'nt have me love a man before I saw him?" "Perhaps not, my daughter; but I would have you look up, remember your quality, and consider what you may be.
You would not, I am sure, condescend to include a simple country girl like me among them. I assure you, Mr. Gusher, I am not ambitious." "You will have discovered by this time," said Mrs. Chapman, rising and making a low courtesy, "that my daughter delights in being eccentric. Oh, sir, she says a great many things she never means. She has got ambition enough.
"Sail in, Henry B. You've got me at your mercy." At the first mention of the Jackpot gusher the financier raised a prohibitive hand. "I've disposed of that matter. No use reopening it." But West stuck to his guns. "I ain't aimin' to try to change yore mind on a matter of business, Horace.
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