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You done just what I'd 'a' done if he'd cussed me. I told you Pete was a bluffer." "Git out," said Satan. Tim fled. Morton came up, looked at Bill Wrenn, pounded him on the shoulder, and went off to his mattress. The other stiffs slouched away, but McGarver and Satan were still discussing the fight.
I'm not going to run away from that big bluffer any more. It's come to a show-down between him and me! I'm done, not only with apologies, but, with side-stepping. If ever he sticks his nose into my affairs again I'll make him wish he'd taken it to a shipyard and had it armor plated. But how on earth did he happen to bump into Mary? And where? That's what gets me!"
I felt a bit ill at ease on the occasion of my first call here, when our positions were reversed " "If you got me here just to be nasty " "By no means. Nevertheless, it gratifies my vanity to remind you that you considered me a braggart, a bluffer, whereas " "I haven't changed my opinion." "So be it. One matter, only, remains between us. I am about to ring up on the last act of our little comedy."
"Isn't she the jolly best bluffer you ever heard?" one of the men remarked to another. "Just think of that beautiful creature, born for admiration, living ten miles from anywhere, on an Albertan ranch of all places, and saying she is happy. She could be a top-notcher in any society in Canada why, great Scott! any of us would have married that girl, and been glad to do it!"
"I found it first and I'm going to keep it!" snapped Johnny Chuck, and with every hair on end and gritting his teeth, he walked straight towards Mr. Blacksnake. Now Mr. Blacksnake is a great bluffer, while at heart he is really a coward. With a fierce hiss he rushed right at Johnny Chuck, expecting to see him turn tail and run. But Johnny stood his ground and showed all his sharp teeth.
He did not seem to have a deliberate intention to rouse Duane; the man was simply rancorous, jealous. "I'll call you right. You cheap bluffer! You four-flush! You damned interfering, conceited ranger!" "Lawson, I'll not take offense, because you seem to be championing your beautiful cousin," replied Duane, in slow speech. "But let me return your compliment. You're a fine Southerner!
"What's that one per cent?" he asked. "Well, you said,...... there is not a single high-collared guy who with smooth face entraps innocent people......." "Yes." "A 'high-collared guy' isn't enough." "Then what should I say?" "Better say, 'a high-collared guy; swindler, bastard, super-swanker, doubleface, bluffer, totempole, spotter, who looks like a dog as he yelps."
"Please re-write it in ink, fill in the amount of your offer and sign it. You have until nine o'clock, remember. At nine-one you will be too late." Despite his deep annoyance, Parker favored him with a sardonic grin. "You're a good bluffer, Farrel." Don Mike turned from the mirror and regarded his guest very solemnly. "How do you know?" he queried, mildly. "You've never seen me bluff.
Though the cold did not lift, the weather grew tolerable once more: and each time I crossed the townplace with a lamb in my arms, I heard the surf running lower and lower in the porth below Vellingey. She was a long boat, painted white; very low in the sheer, and curved at stem and stern like a Norwegian; her stem rounded off without a transom, and scarcely bluffer than her bows.
To sin was to weaken. To bluff an honest man was to be dishonest. To bluff a bluffer was to smite with the steel of justice. The primitive strength was in the arm; the modern strength in the brain. Though it had shifted ground, the struggle was the same old struggle. As of old time, men still fought for the mastery of the earth and the delights thereof.
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