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Dangling all over with poor little heads of dead creatures, just as if they were moving butcher shops, and apparently without a sense of humour to tell them what idiots they looked. Yes, idiots! That was the word. And if they had enough humour to put on a thumb nail, could they wear the stick-out and stick-up ornaments on their hats they did wear, to prod each other's eyes? No, they couldn't!
It is all a part of the same silly subjugation; there must be a hard stick-up collar round the neck of a woman, because it is already a nuisance round the neck of a man. Though a Saxon serf, if he wore that collar of cardboard, would ask for his collar of brass. It will then be answered, not without a sneer, "And what would you prefer?
"Maybe," he suggested at last, when it was clear that Judith was going straight to the door, "this is where our stick-up gents hang out. Choice place for a cutthroat to hibernate, huh?" "I don't believe it," answered Judith positively. "The man who made his hermitage here has a soul!" Behind her back Lee smiled.
They will talk more than ever now, saying that it's up to you to get results and that you don't get them." "The stick-up was last night?" asked the sheriff coolly. "Yes," snapped Cutter. "You were in San Juan?" "Yes." "Where was Jim Galloway? Was he in town?" "No, he wasn't. I don't know where he was. But I do know where he ought to be. . . ." "Was that Mexican gent, del Rio, in town?"
Then slowly the gravity left his eyes and a slow smile came into them. He surprised his horse with a touch of the spurs. "Get into it, you long-legged wooden horse, you!" he chuckled. "We've got something to ride for now! We're going to see Miss Grey Eyes again. There's something besides stick-up men worth a man's thinking about, little horse!"
These here stick-up gents got more sense than that; they'd be settin' nice an' snug an' dry like us fellers, right now." As usual, old man Adams had stated a theory with emphasis and utterly without any previous reflection, being a positive soul, but never a brilliant. And, again quite as usual, a theory stated was naturally to be combated with more or less violence.
That stick-up gent is a clean hundred miles from here right now an' still going, real lively. If any other jasper lent him a hand, why, he's on his way, too. Not stopping to pick flowers. It's the way them kind plays the game."
'Leave hope of fortune behind, ye who enter here' is over the door of this profession." "I haven't the money-making instinct." "We pay fifteen dollars a week at the start." "Couldn't you make it twenty?" He lowered his florid face slowly until his double chin swelled out over his low "stick-up" collar.
The driver was a young man of three- or four-and-twenty, with a cigar between his teeth; wearing a dandy cap, drab jacket, breeches of the same hue, white neckcloth, stick-up collar, and brown driving-gloves in short, he was the handsome, horsey young buck who had visited Joan a week or two before to get her answer about Tess. Mrs Durbeyfield clapped her hands like a child.
No regular guy with the name of Leary would let a cheap stiff of a stick-up rob him out of the coat offen his back without puttin' up a battle. No regular guy named Leary would be named Algernon. Say, I think you're a Far Downer. I wouldn't be surprised but wot you was an A. P. A. on the top of that.
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