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"I am," said O'Donnell, "and I thought ye was a foine young gentleman, and you
are a foine one," he said with intense sarcasm.
"Go away and leave us alone," said the girl. "We're not doing anything. We ate in
here last night together. This man is perfectly respectable. He isn't what you
think him, at all."
"
I'm not going to pinch him," said O'Donnell; "I ain't got nothin' to pinch him for,
but the next time I see him I'll know him."
"
Well," said the girl, "are you going to beat it or are you going to stick around here
bothering us all evening? There hasn't anybody registered a complaint against me
in here."
"Naw," said O'Donnell, "they ain't, but you want to watch your step or they will."
"All right," said the girl, "run along and sell your papers." And she turned again
to Jimmy, and as though utterly unconscious of the presence of the police officer,
she remarked, "That big stiff gives me a pain. He's the original Buttinsky Kid."
O'Donnell flushed. "Watch your step, young lady," he said as he turned and
walked away.
"I thought," said Jimmy, "that it was the customary practise to attempt to mollify
the guardians of the law."
"
Mollify nothing," returned the girl. "None of these big bruisers knows what
decency is, and if you're decent to them they think you're afraid of them. When
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