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Can't you make him quit it?" The nephew joined them: "Uncle, if you'd like to borrow my horse I can go by train." That was a joke. "H-m-m! I see! No, Greenleaf's going by train. Would you like to ride with me?" "Well, eh ha! Why, uncle, I why, of course, if Fred really " They mounted and went. "Hilary?" "Yes, uncle?" "How is it now? Like my girl any better?" "Why yes! Oh, she's fine! And yet I "

"'Good morning, Long Sin Coo. 'Hello, Ghostie. 'Hey, Spirit, may I borrow a nip of brandy to make an ethereal cocktail for my imaginary nightcap? "And he opened his transom and took to talking to himself out loud. So Emily decided to close her transom. It stuck. She asked my assistance, and we balanced a chair on a box and I held it steady while she got up to oil the transom.

In all of Uncle Ith's limited relations with the world, he was esteemed an honest man; and his word would have possessed the literal novelty of being as good as his note, had necessity ever required him to borrow money. But Uncle Ith was frugal, and made his small salary suffice for himself and a family of seven motherless children. He had one eccentricity a complete indifference to newspapers.

"My dear friends," said he, on drawing near to the close of his subject, "the text teaches us, besides that of simple alms-giving, the duty of lending; but you will observe, it says not a word about borrowing. Under the law laid down here, we may lend as much as we please, but it gives no license to borrow.

But this was the field on which Mr. Motley was to venture. After he had chosen the subject of the history he contemplated, he found that Mr. Prescott was occupied with a kindred one, so that there might be too near a coincidence between them. I must borrow from Mr. Ticknor's beautiful life of Prescott the words which introduce a letter of Motley's to Mr.

"I lent him three hundred dollars only day before yesterday." "A clear swindle." "Yes, it is. Oh, if I could only get my hands on him!". Mr. Everett's countenance, as he said this, did not wear a very amiable expression. "Don't get excited about it," said the other. "I think he has let you off quite reasonably. Was that sum all he asked to borrow?" "Yes."

The animal was afraid of him; in all probability it had never before been handled by a European, but Dick spoke to it in the lingua franca of the stable, and he was soon allowed to stroke the arched neck and twine his fingers in the thick yellow mane. Abdullah did not return so speedily as was his intent. He had gone to borrow another mount, and met with delay, because the owner was in the bazaar.

When in England, at the end of 1836, Borrow had been authorised by the Bible Society to find "a person competent to translate the Scriptures in Basque." On 27th February 1837, he wrote telling Mr Brandram that he had become "acquainted with a gentleman well versed in that dialect, of which I myself have some knowledge."

Then he built up an arrangement which appeared ingenious to him, when it occurred to him to remember that he had gone to Caffie to borrow three thousand francs. Why would he not lend it to him, if not the first day, at least the second? With this loan he paid his debts, if he were questioned on this point.

Do you think I could continue a journey down the river in company so strong at cards as yours? At a later time, if you like, I will endeavor to get my revenge." "Suppose you have it now," said Dunwody calmly. "Haven't you just heard me say I haven't the means?" "You have as much as I have." "Tut! tut! I don't borrow to play cards." "You do not need to borrow.