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1 " Elgin himself looked ten years younger, now that he’d cast the die, but I thought exuberance had got the better of him when he strode into the saloon later, threw The Origin of Species on the table and announced:" It’s very original, no doubt, but not for a hot evening. What I need is some trollop." I couldn’t believe my ears, and him a church-goer, too. " Well, my lord, I dunno,” says I. " Tientsin ain’t much of a place, but I’ll see what I can drum up —" " Michel’s been reading Doctor Thorne since Taku," cried he. " He must have finished it by now, surely! Ask him, Flashman, will you?" So I did, and had my ignorance, enlightened. "
2 " He couldn’t jeopardize the saloon because of some silly infatuation with an outlaw. Even one as beautiful as Mariah Ayers. "
― B.J. Daniels , Outlaw's Honor (The Montana Cahills, #2)
