With that patronage in jeopardy, matters must be doubly anxietous with accusations of treason hanging over his head.

Giving the wench the once-over as she entered, I found myself well able to understand why Bobbie on observing her entangled with [her fiancé] had exploded with so loud a report.

“That,” he rejoined, “is a way we Americans have. We cannot stop to palaver. What would become of our manifest destiny?”

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