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Or rather, it is probable that Li Hung Chang had already arranged the following terms with Russia as the price of her intervention on behalf of China. The needs of the Court of Pekin and the itching palms of its officials proved to be singularly helpful in the carrying out of the bargain.

If he is the sensible, practical man I take him to be, he will get back his estates and the very best little wife that ever was wed into the bargain; and my girl will be a marchioness, and in time a duchess. But stay what is that I heard up at Lone about the young marquis and a handsome shepherdess? Chut! what is that to us? That is probably a slander.

"Raw potatoes would cure everybody here," he remarked to the seeress. "I know it. I've seen it work before." The flare of conviction in her eyes, followed by bitterness and hatred, told him the scent was warm. "Why didn't you bring in a supply of fresh potatoes on the steamer?" he asked. "We did. But coming up the river we sold them all out at a bargain at Fort Yukon.

"Do you want to be licked into the bargain?" "Oh, very well," said Wibberly, with a last fond thought of Stutter's good bill of fare. "But, I say, you needn't give us lines, Bloomfield." "I've nothing to do with giving you lines. That's the captain's affair." "What do you mean? Do you mean to say you'll report us to Riddell?" "Of course. He's the captain."

No tailor in the world would make clothes out of old blankets, I was pretty sure of that. I had to hit upon some stratagem. I heard of a man who was a capable worker at his trade, and asked him to come and see me. My office looked exactly like a woollen warehouse, with blankets everywhere. The tailor arrived. "Was that the stuff?" "Yes, that was it. Just imported from abroad. A great bargain.

Then he and his followers worked up what seemed to them a clever scheme for hoodwinking the colonists. "We will make the tea cheaper in America than in England," they said. "Such a bargain! How can the simple colonists resist it?" Great faith was put in this foolish plan.

You Christians fancy you know all about eternity, and if you are right in that But I will not reopen that old discussion. Give me back my child for a year, a month, a day even, as she was before murderous disease laid hands on her, and I will make you a free gift of your cuckoo-cloud-land of eternity, and of the remainder of my own life on earth into the bargain."

On arriving at the inn Gerald lounged at the gate of the court-yard until the muleteer came out. "I will meet your worship on the fifth night from this at Jeres." "Very well; here are five crowns as an earnest on our bargain. If you carry it out well I shall very likely forget to deduct them from the twenty I promised you.

"Will you permit me, Mademoiselle, to say that in this matter you have hardly chosen the wiser course?" "In what matter?" quoth she, at a loss to understand him. "In the matter of my release. I advised you in my letter to purchase my freedom. Had you done so, we should now be in a position to start for the frontier for you would have made a passport a part of your bargain.

With the very little Portuguese he possessed, he contrived to make every imaginable species of bargain; always managed a good billet; kept every one in good humor, and rarely left his quarters in the morning without a most affective leave-taking, and reiterated promises to renew his visit.