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CHAPTER XVIII
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Daylight had been wholly truthful1 when he told Dede that he had no real friends. On speaking terms with thousands, on fellowship and drinking terms with hundreds, he was a lonely man. He failed to find the one man, or group of several men, with whom he could be really intimate. Cities did not make for comradeship as did the Alaskan trail. Besides, the types of men were different. Scornful and contemptuous of business men on the one hand, on the other his relations with the San Francisco bosses had been more an alliance of expediency3 than anything else. He had felt more of kinship for the franker brutality4 of the bosses and their captains, but they had failed to claim any deep respect. They were too prone5 to crookedness6. Bonds were better than men's word in this modern world, and one had to look carefully to the bonds.
In the old Yukon days it had been different. Bonds didn't go. A man said he had so much, and even in a poker7 game his appeasement8 was accepted.
Larry Hegan, who rose ably to the largest demands of Daylight's operations and who had few illusions and less hypocrisy9, might have proved a chum had it not been for his temperamental twist. Strange genius that he was, a Napoleon of the law, with a power of visioning that far exceeded Daylight's, he had nothing in common with Daylight outside the office. He spent his time with books, a thing Daylight could not abide10. Also, he devoted11 himself to the endless writing of plays which never got beyond manuscript form, and, though Daylight only sensed the secret
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crookedness
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appeasement
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hypocrisy
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abstemious
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cocktail
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n.鸡尾酒;餐前开胃小吃;混合物 | |
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intervals
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anticipation
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violation
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parlor
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boisterous
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diplomacy
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irrelevant
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mighty
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devoured
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slippers
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slipper
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jealousy
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marvel
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stenographer
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gambling
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nagging
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astonishment
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copper
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mantle
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