United States or New Caledonia ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Miller had received an offer to buy his property at a price considerably above the going market rates just before the ghostly appearances started. "The offer wasn't for all the property," Dr. Miller added. "Only for the portion along our eastern line. It includes the field where you landed, the picnic ground, and our part of the mine property. The house and orchard were not included."
He left all his money with me: some to pay for Masses for his father's soul, some to buy things for for our home; and the rest to keep till he came back." "Yes, yes," said Pomfrette, his eyes fixed painfully on her face "yes, yes." "The day after Luc went away John Dicey the Protestant come to me. I'd always liked him; he could talk as Luc couldn't, and it sounded nice. I listened and listened.
To be at Scilly is no longer to be quite out of the world. There was a spice of romance about the manner in which the first cable to Scilly was laid or, perhaps we should say, was not laid. By the Act that came into force in 1870 the Government had agreed to buy over on favourable terms all telegraphs that at that time were found in actual existence as working concerns.
"Maybe then we can have a goat, Flossie." "Oh, may we, Mother?" the little girl demanded. "I'll buy 'em a goat two goats if this news proves true," said Mr. Whipple. "Oh, I do hope I have found my brother!" "How did he get lost?" asked Mrs. Bobbsey. "It happened when my sister and I were very little children. John was somewhat older.
The new beautiful stock that was coming in, for then it took from twelve to sixteen days to cross the ocean, and you had to order quite in advance. He had learned to play several tunes on the accordeon, and he hoped his father would let him take his four weeks' wages and buy one. And Mr. Gerard had said he should be very happy to have all the girls and their mothers come down some afternoon.
He did not say on what grounds he still counted on a diminution of his household expenses, and I had not the cruelty to press this point; but I murmured, after a moment: "I think you're right I should try to buy the land."
Stiegel glass is rare and valuable so if you have any more hold on to it and I'll buy it from you." "Well, I guess! I wouldn't leave you pay five dollars for a glass pitcher! But I wish I had that one back. It spites me now I sold it. My goodness, abody can't watch out enough so you won't get cheated. Where did you learn so much about that old glass?"
She is not going to slave herself to death doing all the work of the house, etc., and so he goes on collecting, and she preparing, trade stuff, and he grows rich enough to buy other wives some of them young children, others widows, no longer necessarily old. But it is not until he is well on in life that he gets sufficient wives, six or seven.
I won't do a ting wid all dat mun; I'll just buy a road. Thank you mister, I'll work so hard for you that you'll not be sorry you gave me the job. But don't you forget that I wants to learn the tick tick business." That night at seven o'clock he went to work, and it didn't take long to see that he was as bright as a new dollar.
It was taken in stage costume, and represented Vivian in one of her clever acrobatic feats. Her pretty child-face wore a sweet smile, and the whole effect of the photograph was dainty and graceful. Across a corner was scrawled the word "Vivian" in large, childish letters. "Did you buy this?" asked Mrs. Maynard, knowing that circus performers often sold their photographs.
Word Of The Day