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Max Tack did a lightning mental calculation. The expression on his face deepened. He looked up at the cabby the red-faced, bottle-nosed cabby, with his absurd scarlet vest, his mustard-coloured trousers and his glazed top hat. "Well, can you beat that? Three francs thirty for the evening's entertainment! Why why, all she wanted was just a little love!"
"You have done it badly, but I'll give you a check now, based on the regular charge, which should come to" George made a quick calculation on a strip of paper and handed it to the man. "This is merely because you seem in a hurry. If you're not satisfied, you can wait until I get an answer from Mrs. Marston; or I'll ask some of my neighbors to arbitrate." The man hesitated, with anger in his face.
Their difficulties had already increased beyond calculation; and, were this proposition acceded to, it would not only confirm a singular belief outside that the object of this Congress was the general relief of mankind, but so increase their responsibilities as to render it impossible to proceed with legitimate business.
It is further incumbent upon it to trace back this universal mode of occurrence to the simplest and clearest form possible, and its uniformities to the fewest and most intelligible laws, that is, ultimately, to laws which can be determined by calculation and summed up in formulæ.
Upon a fair calculation of the profits of the ground, and from other items in the account, Nicholas Garraghty, Esq., appeared at last to be, not the creditor, but the debtor to Lord Clonbrony.
The truth is that this personal equation, as we call it, in each cannot be made the subject of mathematical calculation. Human relations will not bend to it. And yet we keep blundering along as if they would. We are always sure, in our letter of introduction, that this friend will be congenial to the other, because we are fond of both.
Slope. Mr. Slope had made up his mind that Mr. Harding should either accept the hospital with abject submission, or else refuse it altogether, and had calculated that he would probably be more quick to do the latter, if he could be got to enter upon the subject in an ill-humour. Perhaps Mr. Slope was not altogether wrong in his calculation. It was nearly ten when Mr.
I felt it was wicked of those beautiful eyes to say what they did not mean, or, perhaps, did not know how to mean; and for my critical stare, behind that "I love you," calculation hid, like the cold glint deep down in the jewel eyes of a Persian cat, when she doesn't want a mouse to guess that she knows it is there.
Let me plainly assure you that this is no philanthropic scheme but the result of practical calculation. The advantage to you is obvious. An assured income during that period, and your ranch well and ably managed and improved. Your property at the end of seven years will return to you a vastly more valuable possession than it is at present.
"Is it sitting now?" "Adjourned till after Whitsuntide. But there's heaps of work to be done. "Still," he added, "this is my one chance of any treatment." The doctor made a little calculation. "Three weeks.... It's scarcely time enough to begin." "You're certain that no regimen of carefully planned and chosen tonics " "Dismiss the idea. Dismiss it." He decided to take a plunge.
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