We Can't Have Everything by Rupert Hughes
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"You kin have him." The other, who was a good loser at craps or tips, re-examined his clients, flickered his eyelids, and started down the platform to have it over with as soon as possible. He paused to say: "Where you-all want to go to--a taxicab?" Adna, who was a little nervous about his property, answered with some asperity: "No, we don't need any hack to git to Biltmore's." "Nossah!" said the red-cap. "Right across the street, ain't it?" "Yassah!" The porter chuckled. The mention of the family's destination had cheered him a little. He might get a tip, after all. You couldn't always sometimes tell by a man's clothes how he tipped. While Kedzie stood watching the red-cap bestow the various parcels under his arms and along his fingers, a man bumped into her and murmured: "Sorry!" She turned and said, "Huh?" |
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