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On Friday morning, the economist Paul Krugman sounded like a desperado:— Wake Up From Your Slumber - The Truth Will Set You Free
And when the clairvoyant milliner went into a trance and declared that a desperado was in their midst planning a raid on Crowheart the finger of suspicion pointed straight at the uncommunicative stranger, and the Iowa Notion Store installed a riot gun Dr. Harpe wondered with the rest but she did not share their ignorant mistrust, for she had sufficient worldly wisdom to recognize the nicety of his speech and the reticence of his manners as belonging to a gentleman--a gentleman under a cloud mayhap but still born a gentleman.— The Lady Doc
I thought you had more spirit He has the spirit of anger, but not of courage," Lyman remarked Eva," said Sawyer, "out in the Fox Grove neighborhood this man is known as a desperado That phase of character was forced upon me, madam," Lyman replied, "and I had to accept it.— Old Ebenezer

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