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Keeping them, under these circumstances, was not an exhilarating process; and readers familiar with Balzac will reflect with wonder that these were yet the circumstances in which some of his best tales were written. They were written, as it were, in the fading light, by a man who saw night coming on, and yet couldn't afford to buy candles. He could only hurry.
So this was a novel proceeding, though quite comprehensible on the part of a man who had been bribed on a less extensive scale on each previous visit to Court. Once, however, such a proposition had been made, it was evident that his Government could not be much in earnest regarding demands which he could so easily afford to set aside.
The countrymen of Grote and of Mill, of Faraday, of Robert Brown, of Lyell, and of Darwin, to go no further back than the contemporaries of men of middle age, can afford to smile at such a suggestion.
Even in that glance he recognized them as belonging to his uncle, and being the same that he had helped to pack when the fort was abandoned. Realizing their importance, and despairing of being able to afford further aid to any of the recent occupants of the fort, Réné determined to attempt to save these papers.
They could afford to remunerate me well, because the meat would not cost them anything. They agreed to give me five hundred dollars per month, provided I furnished them all the fresh meat required.
It wasn't a nice thing to do; yet she couldn't afford to let the difficulty of explaining the situation keep her here until Elsie Moss should have become so firmly established that it would be cruel to drag her back to Enderby. On the other hand, as long as she had started in with the library work, if Miss Stewart wasn't well enough to attend this afternoon, she would remain one day more.
Your income, properly apportioned, would afford " Another scream from Lady Augusta. Her son Theodore Tod, familiarly burst into the room, jacketless, his hair entangled, blood upon his face, and his shirt-sleeves in shreds. "You rebellious, wicked fright of a boy!" was the salutation of my lady, when she could recover breath. "Oh, it's nothing, mamma.
"I knew what the boy was to earn, and could estimate what he could afford, and I knew that he could not buy that suit out of his own earnings. "I had a letter from his father a few days ago. Shall I read it to you? It is very short. It reads as follows:
Perhaps in his lordly way he felt he could afford himself a few now and then, he was so much cleverer than his neighbours. Upon no one did David's development produce more effect than upon Mr. Ancrum.
I see by your clothes and frazzled necktie that you are mighty poor; and you can't afford to turn down the offer. Well, when do you want to begin?"
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