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Page 302 - I'll tell you what you do — you come along with me and we won't have to write.
Page 53 - Sloan made no reply. He had allowed his wrath to boil for a few minutes merely as a luxury. Now he was thinking seriously of the scheme. " It sounds like moonshine," he said at last,
Page 9 - He was worn thin as an old knife-blade, he was just at the end of a piece of work that would have entitled any other man to a vacation; but MacBride made no apologies when he assigned him the new task — " Go down and stop this fiddling around and get the house built.
Page 220 - He'll probably try to make out a case of criminal carelessness against me, and get me jerked up.
Page 201 - He accosted me, and wanted to know what I was doing there. I told him I had come on to see Nettleship.
Page 232 - I haven't understood exactly until to-night — what they said about the accident and the way you've talked about it — well, some people think you don't think very much about the men, and that if anybody's hurt, or anything happens, you don't care as long as the work goes on.
Page 126 - Look here," he called, getting the attention of all the carpenters, " every man that drops anything into the bins gets docked an hour's pay. If he does it twice he leaves the job just as quick as we can make out a time-check. I want you to be careful.
Page 204 - " I want you to help me out. It looks as though we might get into trouble with our laborers.
Page 218 - He saw that, whatever it was, it seemed to her very important, and he settled comfortably on the table, leaning back against the wall with his legs stretched out before him.