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CHAPTER 7
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Sam Kirby's outfit1 was one of the largest, one of the costliest2, and one of the most complete that had ever been landed on the Dyea beach, for Kirby was a man who did things in a large way. He was a plunger; he had long since become case-hardened to risks and he knew how to weigh probabilities; hence the fact that he had staked his all upon one throw did not in the least disturb him. Many a time he had done the same and the dice3 had never failed to come out for him. Possessing a wide practical knowledge of new countries, he had shrewdly estimated the Klondike discovery at its true worth and had realized that the opportunity for a crowning triumph, a final clean-up, had come his way. This accounted for the energetic manner in which he had set about improving it.
Most men are successful in direct proportion to their ability to select and retain capable assistants. Fortune had favored Sam Kirby by presenting him with a daughter whose caution and good sense admirably supplemented his own best qualities, and he was doubly blessed in possessing the intense, nay4, the ferocious5, loyalty6 of one Danny Royal, a dependable retainer who had graduated from various minor7 positions into a sort of castellan, an Admirable Crichton, a good left hand to replace that missing member which Kirby had lost during the white-hot climax8 of a certain celebrated9 feud10—a feud, by the way, which had added a notch11
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notch
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gambling
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severed
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belly
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swarms
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costly
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strewed
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milestone
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lumber
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wreckage
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n.(车轮的)辐条;轮辐;破坏某人的计划;阻挠某人的行动 v.讲,谈(speak的过去式);说;演说;从某种观点来说 | |
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entirely
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ad.全部地,完整地;完全地,彻底地 | |
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apprehension
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nervously
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precisely
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coup
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liking
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stolidly
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courteously
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savvy
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fending
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perfectly
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