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Jacob's coolness is an unpleasant foil to Esau's impatience, and his cautious bargaining, before he will sell what a brother would have given, shows a mean soul, without generous love to his own flesh and blood. Esau lets one ravenous desire hide everything else from him.
The simpler organisms are not interested in pleasure, but in their individual preservation; while man is interested not only in preservation, but in learning, card-playing, loving, fighting, bargaining, and all the innumerable activities that form part of the present complex of life.
"Then let us agree at once. I cannot face any more searching and bargaining." "Youre looking pale. Are you sure you are not ill?" "No. It is nothing. I am rather tired." They went in together; and Marian was introduced to Mrs. Myers, a nervous widow of fifty. The rooms were small, and the furniture and carpets old and worn; but all was clean; and there was an open fireplace in the sitting-room.
After a fortnight of this manoeuvring, some fine morning Lazard will let you have them." And Balzac added a postscript to this little lesson in the fine art of bargaining: "Never become a collector, for if you do you give yourself into the keeping of a demon as exacting and jealous as the demon of gambling."
Reception of the Dutch Envoys at the Louvre Ignominious Result of the Embassy Secret Influences at work Bargaining between the French and Spanish Courts Claims of Catharine de' Medici upon Portugal Letters of Henry and Catharine Secret Proposal by France to invade England States' Mission to Henry of Navarre Subsidies of Philip to Guise Treaty of Joinville Philip's Share in the League denied by Parma Philip in reality its Chief Manifesto of the League Attitude of Henry III. and of Navarre The League demands a Royal Decree Designs of France and Spain against England Secret Interview of Mendoza and Villeroy Complaints of English Persecution Edict of Nemours Excommunication of Navarre and his Reply.
Besides, the Egyptian dearly loves bargaining for the mere excitement of the thing, and so the clatter of tongues is deafening. Here and there one or two traders have advanced a little beyond the old-fashioned way of barter, and offer, instead of goods, so many rings of copper, silver, or gold wire. Even then the rings have still to be weighed that he may be sure he is not being cheated.
When the Jews were driven out of Spain, they left behind the true genius of bargaining. A nut-brown maid is attracted by a brilliant red and yellow scarf. She asks the sleepy merchant nodding before his wares, "What is this rag worth?" He answers with profound indifference, "Ten reals." "Hombre! Are you dreaming or crazy?" She drops the coveted neck-gear, and moves on, apparently horror-stricken.
She had forgotten. But there was no help for it. She must have more money. It might be, in the last resort, the means of bargaining with Gertrude. And how could she ask Mark Winnington! So she hurriedly thanked him, naming a tiara and two pendants, that she thought must be valuable.
Then his wife, seated near the door, with a big basket on her knees, made similar protestations, screeching in a sharp voice, like a hen that has been hurt. At last the lease was agreed on, the rent being fixed at three thousand francs a year a third less than it had been formerly. Before they had separated, Maître Gouy offered to buy up the stock, and the bargaining was renewed.
War, in substance, though not perhaps in form, began when the one nation resorted to force, quite irrespective of the resistance of the other. Canada, conquered by the United States, would therefore have been a piece of British property attached; either in compensation for claims, or as an asset in the bargaining which precedes a treaty of peace.
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