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My firm are not the kind of people to let me off." "Four thousand five hundred!" the girl repeated as though to herself. "Yes. And I haven't the slightest prospect of getting it anywhere. If I could only borrow it I could sail along into smooth waters again. But that is quite out of the question." Peggy remained silent for a few moments.
The artist who dared to borrow nature's elements would only produce a bastard work which would have neither authenticity nor style, inasmuch as the essence obtained by the distillation of flowers would bear but a distant and vulgar relation to the odor of the living flower, wafting its fragrance into the air.
"Suppose he won't let go?" "Cut him with your horsewhip." "You think it's about a debt, then?" "Intimidation, evidently." "I shall announce to him that the great Edward Blancove is not to be intimidated. You'll let me borrow your name, old Ned. I've stood by you in my time. As for leaving Fairly, I tell you I can't. It's too delightful to be near Peggy Lovell."
Bless my watch charm, but I was so interested in my machine that I didn't think to ask you." "Yes, I am after those thieves again." "In your motor-boat, I presume. Well, I hope you catch them. What have they stolen now?" "My motor-boat. That's why I'm after them, but I had to borrow a craft to chase them with." "Bless my soul! You don't tell me! How did it happen?"
But the man who could deliberately borrow hundreds of pounds from a lad only just of age a simple, trustful, good-natured country lad, who had little but his own exertions to depend upon such a man will tell a lie to screen himself! This money was not paid back; there isn't a word about it in the diary, and there's the fact that Harry had got rid of his money in a way no one could explain.
And at another time, twitting me with my phrases, that the man was above controul, who wanted not either to borrow or flatter.
However, George Borrow, who had not said a word hitherto, entered into the discussion, opening fire on the clergyman in a very unexpected manner, and giving him such a setting down as the hearers, at any rate, never forgot.
Famine began to stare us in the face; our provisions were nearly exhausted; two or more days might elapse before we reached Ostend. We breakfasted on tea, fried skate and cheese. Breakfast at an end, it was proposed to board the nearest vessel and beg or borrow a dinner. In the tide course appeared a sail, about five miles distant.
I had to borrow half a crown, from Jevons. You mayn't see anything very dreadful in that. I didn't at the time, and there wasn't. The dreadful thing was that I forgot to pay him back. Yes. Something happened that put Jevons and his half-crown out of my head for long enough. I forgot to pay him, and he had to go without his dinner for three nights in consequence. It was his last half-crown.
An indescribable look of pain and rebellion passed over Mrs. Bell's face, and she turned away from Silvia, with a quick gesture of renunciation. "In the meantime," Silvia went on, feeling that the time had not come to seek any further confidence, "I am going to borrow Alice.
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