1 He had certainly met his match when he married Mrs. Cutter.
2 Cutter was one of the 'fast set' of Black Hawk business men.
3 Peter could give no very clear account of his transactions with Cutter.
4 Cutter's first name was Wycliffe, and he liked to talk about his pious bringing-up.
5 Once, when Cutter was exhibiting some of his wife's china to a caller, he dropped a piece.
6 It was a peculiar combination of old-maidishness and licentiousness that made Cutter seem so despicable.
7 Cutter thought he knew a great deal about horses, and usually had a colt which he was training for the track.
8 Cutter lived in a state of perpetual warfare with his wife, and yet, apparently, they never thought of separating.
9 The chief of these was the question of inheritance: Mrs. Cutter told her husband it was plainly his fault they had no children.
10 When a farmer once got into the habit of going to Cutter, it was like gambling or the lottery; in an hour of discouragement he went back.
11 More than once they put their wits together to rescue some unfortunate farmer from the clutches of Wick Cutter, the Black Hawk money-lender.
12 Mrs. Cutter had several times cut paragraphs about unfaithful husbands out of the newspapers and mailed them to Cutter in a disguised handwriting.
13 Mrs. Cutter painted china so assiduously that even her wash-bowls and pitchers, and her husband's shaving-mug, were covered with violets and lilies.
14 His creditor was Wick Cutter, the merciless Black Hawk money-lender, a man of evil name throughout the county, of whom I shall have more to say later.
15 Cutter would come home at noon, find the mutilated journal in the paper-rack, and triumphantly fit the clipping into the space from which it had been cut.
16 They quarrelled from the moment Cutter came into the house until they went to bed at night, and their hired girls reported these scenes to the town at large.
17 Cutter boasted that he never drank anything stronger than sherry, and he said he got his start in life by saving the money that other young men spent for cigars.
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