Henry M. Rideout

Name: Getting into Line
Author: Henry M. Rideout

Getting into Line (1905)

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“Getting into Line”, published in 1905, is a work by Henry M. Rideout. It explores elements such as Drummond, Howard Blair and Billy.

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Henry M. Rideout, Getting into Line (1905)

“ At the sound of his feet upon the landing, however, she looked up wearily, and on her patient, dull, pug-nosed, Irish face Drummond saw—what took hold of him unpleasantly—the great tears rolling down.
"Are ye the doctor?" she asked in a whisper; and when Billy answered—"Oh, doctor, doctor, what'll we do?" she whispered and fell once more to weeping silently.
Not set at ease by this reception, he entered the stuffy room, where the air was glutinously close with heat and evil smells.
"My good woman," he said rather helplessly, "this is no place for you. You ought to be in bed." ”

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Henry M. Rideout, Getting into Line (1905)

“ The woman cried out upon the love of God; the man, with a jumble of oaths, sat up, swaying, and stared at Drummond.
"Wha'—wha'—who in Hell are you?"
"I'm the doctor," said Drummond stoutly. "Do you want your wife to die?"
"Do I want—want," muttered the man getting to his feet, and then, in a burst of fierceness, "Don't ye lay a finger on her!" he cried huskily.
"I don't want to," answered Billy with a great deal of truth; "but I'm going to save her life and the child's. See, there she sits nigh dead with pain and you were snoring on the bed. Shame! What way was that for an Irishman to act? ”

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Henry M. Rideout, Getting into Line (1905)

“ Drummond plunged into the mud and blackness of the alley. Stumbling round the court and striking many matches at the doors, he came at last upon Number fourteen. The damp and sordid entry was dimly lighted from an open side-door, through which came the smell of tobacco and cabbage, and a chatter of vile words in Italian. Two, three, four flights he groped upward on creaking stairs, and came at last to another open door, and the smoky light of a tin hand-lamp. ”

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Henry M. Rideout, Getting into Line (1905)

“ And it was on the same evening, cold and rainy, when the saloons and Chinese laundries across Harrison Avenue were beginning to show lighted windows, and the rumble of drays was lessening, that Billy heard the door bell of two twenty nine jangle down on the ground floor, and encountered Nason in the obscure light at the head of the spiral stairway.
"Sawyer the lawyer," was Billy's greeting. "So you're really off for New York for good, to begin the great fight. Come in here and sit down, won't you? There are some fellows in the next room playing checkers or something. ”

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Henry M. Rideout, Getting into Line (1905)

“ To make a whim serious, is poor taste. How many children in the slums will have Howard Blair to curse for dragging them into their wretched life, or keeping them in it afterward? None of that for me. In Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde you remember, there's a lawyer who says, 'I incline to Cain's heresy; I let my brother go to the devil his own way.’"
And Drummond waved the subject aside, to talk of Nason's prospects in New York.
By ten, the two men had said good-by; at eleven Billy had gone to bed in the little back room where Kimball was sleeping the sleep of exhaustion. ”

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Henry M. Rideout, Getting into Line (1905)

“ He had nearly been a coward that night; he had been a fool every day of his life. Sawyer's phrase, "pleasure in healing grievous disease," recurred to him with almost Biblical dignity. The sense of responsibility toward men and things began to crowd in upon him, to cry out within him so insistently, that he was amazed.
He wiped the sweat out of his eyes and turned to pack the handbag. ”

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Henry M. Rideout, Getting into Line (1905)

“ The longest-living author of this work died in 1939, so this work is in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 84 years or less. This work may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works. ”

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