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But he can't shut his eyes and open his mouth, and see what God will send him, as a wise and prudent man should do. He is always for bargaining, and no Prime Minister likes that." "I would not be in his shoes if, after all, he has to come home and say that the bargain is off." "Ha, ha, ha! Well, I should not take it very quietly. But what can we poor women do, you know?
'Do you mean to say you understand such things? 'To be sure I do. 'But didn't you tell me you didn't interfere in any of your wife's affairs? 'I don't in any other. But this ... is no consequence. To pass the time one may do it. And my wife has confidence in my taste. And I'm a first-rate hand at bargaining. Polozov began to speak by jerks; he was exhausted already.
Now, that illustrates precisely what is meant by a covenant with the Lord. He, on the one part, and we on the other part, uniting for a common purpose, and each undertaking definite responsibilities to secure the purpose desired. Mind, this covenanting with God is not a case of bargaining.
Don't forget: the better price you get for your estate, the more there will be for you two, and for your children. Gemma turned away, and Sanin gave another wave of his hand. 'You can rely on my prudence, Frau Lenore! Indeed, I shan't do any bargaining with her. I shall tell her the fair price; if she'll give it good; if not, let her go. 'Do you know her this lady? asked Gemma.
At length he commenced getting ready our supper, and I entered into conversation with a very great man, the mayor of the village, who, adorned with a splendid order at his breast, was quietly bargaining for his supper. Nothing more completely astonishes an Englishman than this extraordinary mixture of all ranks of society, which takes place at the kitchen fire of a French inn.
The rascal seemed thoroughly well pleased with the result of his bargaining, as indeed he very well might be, for he must have secured fully four times the value of the money and goods he had brought with him to the lagoons.
A band of diggers suddenly started, with full basket loads, toward a fishing boat that had dropped anchor close in to the shore; it was a Honfleur craft, come to buy mussels for the Paris market. The women trudged through the water, up to their waists; they clustered about the boats like so many laden beasts. But their shrill bargaining proved them women.
For the dunces there was a corner strewn with dried peas on which they were made to kneel with long-eared donkey caps adorning their luckless heads. Very likely it was after an insult of this kind that Enrico decided to elope to America with his baby sister. They were found down by the harbor bargaining with some fishermen to take them over to Capri en route for the land of freedom.
You will find me again on the Grand Place." Chicot was bargaining for some horses, when he saw the monk reappear, carrying the saddles and bridles of the mules. "Oh! you have kept the harness?" "Yes." "And sold the mules?" "For ten pistoles each." "Which they paid you?" "Here is the money." "Ventre de biche! you are a great man, let us go on." "But I am thirsty."
In the winter the news got about that the lady was going to sell her land, and that the keeper of the inn on the high road was bargaining for it. When the peasants heard this they were very much alarmed. "Well," thought they, "if the innkeeper gets the land he will worry us with fines worse than the lady's steward. We all depend on that estate."
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