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I have cared for them, instructed them, watched over them, and know all their little cares and joys, for years; and how can I ever hold up my head again among them, if, for the sake of a little paltry gain, we sell such a faithful, excellent, confiding creature as poor Tom, and tear from him in a moment all we have taught him to love and value?
It was the furniture dealer who had come to collect the money for the cradle. He was boiling with the rage that cares not how it may be expressed: he said he had already been there four times, and each time he was put off. The truth is, Daniel was very hard up. The Councillor’s wife took Daniel to one side, and made him an offer of a loan of two hundred marks.
"Come with me when I next go," said Paul. "I had intended to call this afternoon; but I won't, until I hear from my mother." "What about?" "I want to learn how she came into possession of the brooch." "Pooh, nonsense," said Hay, contemptuously, "you think too much about the thing. Who cares if a pawnbroker faints? Why I wish to go to the shop, is, because I am anxious to see your lady-love.
As my knowledge of writing and figures seemed to my father satisfactory and sufficient for such a post, and as he knew well that it might lead, not merely to a life free from pecuniary cares, but even to wealth and fortune, he chose this career as mine.
She welcomed him with a warm embrace, and by the well-remembered and endearing names of his childhood. Inquiring as to his health, she remarked the lines which mighty cares and many trials had made on his manly countenance, spoke much of old times and old friends, but of his glory, not one word! "Meantime, in the village of Fredericksburg, all was joy and revelry.
It was the twilight hour in the winter days, before the lamps, that especially brought her out; then she began her long stories about her complicated cares, to which her father listened with angelic patience.
"What do you suppose a girl like that cares for love? She was dead in love with the nice long yellow-backs that I've piled up because the public knows good ham when they taste it. As for being in love with Henry or with any man say, young fellow, you've got something to learn about those New York girls. And this one, especially.
Mary came up before you in moving habit as she lived the young Mary who caught all hearts, not heartless herself, and laid hold of mere straws to save herself as she drifted desperately with circumstances; not the woman who has been painted as an actor from first to last, as coming forth draped for effect at the very closing scene, not that woman, but the girlish queen who laughed and called to the echo, and forgot the cares of a kingdom while she could.
"I've said and I was not lying that I came away to shorten the business of fortune-making to buy back an old place we love, my sister and I; but " "Which does she love best, the old place or the young brother?" "Oh, she cares about me no doubt o' that." He smiled the smile of faith. "Has she ... an understanding heart?" "The most I know."
We got exactly eleven pounds eleven shillings for the clothes and the watch and chain. She can redeem them all within a month if she likes. Here is the pawnbroker's receipt; tell her to keep it until she does. She can redeem them whenever she cares to pay back eleven pounds eleven shillings with interest.
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