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He keeps his eye on his underlings too; still, business is not done now as briskly as formerly, for though he is not much older than I am and I am not yet sixty he is always ailing and has not been seen out of the house for months. Even when your chief wants to see him he comes over to this side of the river. It is a pity with such a man as he; and who was it that broke down his stalwart strength?
"I have recognized you for the last five minutes, but it was not my business to speak first." "And I see with pleasure," said D'Harmental, "that Captain Roquefinette is still prudent." "Prudentissimo, chevalier; so if you have any new overture to make, out with it." "No, captain, no; not at present, at least. Besides, the place is not suitable for a conference of that nature.
There was a good deal of quiet laughter on the floor among the knowing ones, though I knew the mass was as ignorant as I was myself; but realizing that I meant to be just and was expediting business the convention soon warmed to me, and feeling this I began to be perfectly at home. I never had a better day's sport in all my life. One incident was particularly amusing.
Most likely on the main land, where the seaside places are largest, and where he is sure of getting all the stores he wants. Next, what is our business? Not to risk losing a link in the chain of evidence by missing any place where he has put his foot on shore. Not to overshoot the mark when we want to hit it in the bull's-eye.
"Me, I am Mrs. Sarah Mashkowitz, and this here lady is my sister, Mrs. Blooma Sheikman, geborn Smolinski." "That ain't my fault that you got them names," Abe said. "I see it now that you're my wife's father's brother's daughter, ain't it? So if you're going to make a touch, make it. I got business to attend to." "We ain't going to make no touch, Potash," Mrs. Mashkowitz declared.
I was ferried over by two women, who were by no means sorry that the winds and floods had carried my Lord Buchan's bridge away, as it restored their business of putting people over.
She told them none of their business, and as her principles and patience were both at a low ebb by this time, and the meaning of rendering to Cæsar the things which were Cæsar's did not seem at all clear to her, she whispered fiercely to her husband: "Ike, you fool, why don't you fee 'em?
A little rowboat with a stove on board was running a brisk restaurant business, selling bread, coffee, fried eggs, fried potatoes, and fried fish to boatmen and laborers, who managed to devour the viands without assistance of plate, knife, or fork.
You had better have stayed at that business; it was an honest one, at any rate, and Uncle Sam would have been saved some pay that you draw, while, like a dishonest sneak, you preach treason. "'How dare you insult a Regular officer? said a gold-striped, dandified fellow, as he twisted the ends of his moustache into rat-tails.
You are saving my nieces the humiliation of suspending the paper they established and have labored on so lovingly. Moreover, I regard you and Hetty as friends whom I am glad to put in the way of a modest but I venture to predict a successful business career. What is your second objection?" "I heard Mr.
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