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At this he dropped his bantering tone. "I wanted to talk to you about that," he said gravely. "You mean ?" "About your buying the old Bolton place and paying such a preposterous price for it, and all the rest, including the minister's back-pay." She remained silent, playing with the ribbon of her sash.
Truly, here was a pickle! The confession of the accused man had enabled the police to secure the diamond, which they did without any formalities of payment to Señor Izaaks, to his unbounded grief, and the ring being restored to the finger of the statue, and the money being on its way across the sea, and the soldier being entitled to some part of it as back-pay, the court-martial at length resolved to release Miguel Jose from arrest.
"Well, I have a way of taking things in at a glance," said he. "That's why I'm foreman, I expect. So you've had enough work?" "My system's full of it," replied Lin, grinning. As the foreman stood thinking, he added, "And I'd like my time." Time, in the cattle idiom, meant back-pay up to date. "It's good we're not busy," said the foreman.
'I've got that thief Mulvaney's for all my back-pay, an' she'll kick my heart sick wid that blunderin' long shtock av hers. 'Go on! yells Brazenose, whippin' his sword out. 'Go on an' take the town! An' the Lord have mercy on our sowls!
"None of Whately's property, no," my father replied; "but he has a wage-earning capacity which is better than all the ill-begotten property anybody may fraudulently gather together. Anyhow, I reasoned that if my boy and Whately's girl cared for each other, I would not be connected with any of their property matters. I have, however, secured a widow's pension and some back-pay for Mrs.
There was nothing too good for the old lady after that, and the captain wouldn't hear of her living anywheres but at the officers' mess, where she sat at his right hand, and always spoke first. The Queen of England couldn't have been treated with more respeck, and the captain put her on the strength of the battery, and she drew back-pay from the day she first blew into camp.
"Horrite. "Will you have it now, or wait till you get it?" I asked, betrayed by the annoyance of the moment into a species of vulgarity unbecoming an officer and gentleman. "I don't mind paying you the money, provided it clears the bullocks for the future not otherwise. In the meantime I'm going to take them back-pay or no pay."
"In this crisis, Christophe," said La Renaudie, "we mean to neglect nothing which shall strengthen our party, for there is a party in the Reformation, the party of thwarted interests, of nobles sacrificed to the Lorrains, of old captains shamefully treated at Fontainebleau, from which the cardinal has banished them by setting up gibbets on which to hang those who ask the king for the cost of their equipment and their back-pay."
Nearly all the back-pay members contemplate making the round trip with us in case their constituents will allow them a holiday. Every harmless amusement will be allowed on board, but no pools permitted on the run of the comet no gambling of any kind. All fixed stars will be respected by us, but such stars as seem to need fixing we shall fix. If it makes trouble, we shall be sorry, but firm. Mr.
"Enough to put us through the winter; enough to stand us on our feet independent of Duxbury Farley and his son; enough to let us pay Major Dabney the back royalties on the coal. More than this, it's going to use up iron hundreds of tons of it. We'll buy out of our own yards, and the men shall have the back-pay dividends."
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