'Leave him alone, Alec,' Magee cut in swiftly, but in a friendly tone. Think it over. Return to your post, legate. If a man hasn't got it, you can't interest him in such a switch.
Two centuries of survival had taught him that a bribe must be offered as gently and as indirectly as a gal -- 'Fraid not, Son. In the third place, if we let this get by, we'll be sued for every double-yolked egg that's laid from now on. I think she's the greatest gal that ever trod shoe leather-but I would rather marry a mountain lioness.
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