[You Never Know Your Luck Complete by Gilbert Parker]@TWC D-Link bookYou Never Know Your Luck Complete CHAPTER II 9/29
"That drug-eating Gus Burlingame's got a grudge against him somehow, and when a lawyer's got a grudge against you it's just as well to look where y' are goin'. Burlingame don't care what he does to get his way in court.
What set him against Kerry I ain't sure, but, bedad, I think it's looks.
Burlingame goes in for lookin' like a picture in a frame--gold seals hangin' beyant his vestpocket, broad silk cord to his eye-glass, loose flowin' tie, and long hair-makes him look pretentuous and showy.
But your 'Mr.Kerry, sir,' he don't have any tricks to make him look like a doge from Veenis and all the eyes of the females battin' where'er he goes.
Jealousy, John Sibley, me boy, is a cruil thing." "Why is it you ain't jealous of him? There's plenty of women that watch you go down-town--you got a name for it, anyway," remarked Sibley maliciously. Deely nodded sagely.
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