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May I ask what inducements you offer?" "Certainly," said Gavin, without a moment's hesitation. "Though I wonder you have not guessed them." "Lighter sentence, naturally," suggested Hade. "But is that all? Surely it's a piker price for Uncle Sam to pay for a gift of nearly a million dollars. Can't you better it?" "I am not the court," returned Brice, nettled.
Among the women selected as subjects for this book Sophie Dawes as a personality wins `hands down. Whether she was a criminal or not is a question even now in dispute. Unscrupulous she certainly was, and a good deal of a rogue. That modern American product the `gold-digger' is what she herself would call a `piker' compared with the subject of this chapter.
But I always did hate a "piker," so I stood pat. Well, I had most of the dinner cooked, but it kept me hustling to get the house into anything like decent order before the old dog barked, and I knew my moments of liberty were limited. It was blowing a perfect hurricane and snowing like midwinter.
Honest, I have seen him bring a smile out of a head waiter. "He was the real spendthrift. Why, every day he was courting me in Racine he would take me down and let me look at the lake for hours at a time, and often he would tell me he was going to take me boat riding. Shows what a piker I was.
Two or three times I see a queer look steal across the ol' man's face; but everything was out in the open, as far as I could see. I played even Steven; but the wind shifted plumb away from Jabez, an' he lost steady. Part of the time Dick corraled the pots, an' part of the time me an' Piker provided shelter for 'em: but no matter who won, the ol' man lost.
"Just to show you I'm not a piker," he cried recklessly, "I'll bet you twenty-five dollars I can beat your Skeeter with my Smoky horse that I rode in here. Is it a go?" Jeff's jaw dropped a little, with surprise. "What fer horse is this here Smoky horse of yourn?" he wanted to know. Bud winked at the group, which cackled gleeful!, "I love the sport of kings," he said.
It would have horrified him to be called a piker, for his instincts were really lavish, and the economical habit an achievement in which he took a resentful pride.
I'll get you an interest in a mine. Put a name to what you want." "I'm no robber. You paid the expenses of my trip. That's all I want right now." "It's not all you'll get. Do you think I'm a cheap piker? No, sir. You've got to let me grub-stake you." Mackenzie thumped a clinched fist down on the table. "All right, seh. You're the doctor.
"It was addressed to Martin Moore on Sixth Avenue, wasn't it?" "My God!" It came in a sudden, pitiful cry from the boy, and his hand involuntarily went to his own pocket. "You you've got that letter!" "Do you think you're up against a piker game!" exclaimed Laroque maliciously. "Well then, forget it!
Understand! I am going to be so desperately disappointed that I'll have to choose between suicide and marriage. The way I feel now, I think I'll choose marriage. But you must help." "Leave it to me, Bo!" "In the first place, I want some training-quarters." "That's right, don't be a piker." "And I want you to boost." "I'm there! When do we begin?" "Right away.
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