"You've money and influence, and that's what counts." "I'm seriously thinking the thing over," returned Warrington, not quite understanding the wink.
"Everything's on the bum in town; it wants a clean bill.

McQuade must go.

The man never keeps a promise.

Told me in the presence of witnesses, last election, that he'd give me a job on the new police board; and yet after election he put in one of those whipper-snappers who know nothing.

Of course, you've been in town long enough to know that Donnelly is simply McQuade's creature.