You didn't bribe him, I know that; there's not money enough in New York to do it.

And you didn't persuade him; he is all ice and iron: there isn't a soft place nor a warm one in him anywhere.

That is your secret?
Look here; you owe me a hundred dollars for unintentionally giving you a chance to perform a miracle--for it is a miracle that you've done." "That is all right," I said, "collect it of Jimmy Lewis." That good dog not only did me that good turn in the time of my need, but he won for me the envious reputation among all the theatrical people from the Atlantic to the Pacific of being the only man in history who had ever run the blockade of Augustin Daly's back door..