Quotation from: The Little Lady of the Big House

Written by: Jack London


He paused, bowed briefly and grandly as lords in Nob Hill palaces
early learn to bow, and, by the quality of the pause, signified that
the audience was over. Nor did the impact of dismissal miss his
guardians. They, who had been co-lords with his father, withdrew
confused and perplexed. Messrs. Davidson and Slocum were on the point
of resolving their perplexity into wrath, as they went down the great
stone stairway to the waiting carriage, but Mr. Crockett, the testy
and snappish, muttered ecstatically: "The son of a gun! The little son
of a gun!"

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