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In this letter to Sextius, in which he speaks jokingly of his indebtedness, he declares that he has been able to borrow any amount he wanted at six per cent twelve being the ordinary rate and gives as a reason for this the position which he has achieved by his services to the State.
Here are the ten dollars that I promised, but I wish you to understand that in future I shall not advance one cent of my tuition-money. When the month ends you will receive your wages, but not one day earlier." "I beg pardon, miss; but, indeed, you see " He did not conclude the sentence, but waved his hand towards the two in the rocking-chair and proceeded to count the money placed in his palm.
Count them, and see how many there are.” The boys counted them, and found there were fifteen. “That is enough to come to seven cents, and one load over,” said Rollo’s father; and he took out his purse, and gave the boys seven cents each, that is, a six-cent piece in silver, and one cent besides.
"I'm dead sure," he said. "I've turned over my orders to my brother's house in the City. He can handle 'em all and not have to pay his men a cent more wages." And this was as if something had been locked. "Well," said Simeon, "then, Abel, I move we go ahead." "Well," he said, "I hate to do it.
At the commencement of the war he was in "easy" and rather affluent circumstances at its close, comparatively a poor man. Prompted by patriotic feelings for the final prosperity of his county, still struggling for independence, he loaned to the Slate of North Carolina, in her great pecuniary need, £4,000, for which, unfortunately, he has never received a cent in return.
Ninety per cent of everything produced is turned in to the government and other articles are taken from its stores." "How is the rate of exchange established?" asked the Big Business Man. "It is computed by the government. Private exchanges are supposed to be made at the same rate. It is against the law to cut under the government rate.
Consul Fraser estimates the population of Chungking at 200,000; the Chinese, he says, have a record of 35,000 families within the walls. Of this number from forty to fifty per cent. of all men, and from four to five per cent. of all women, indulge in the opium pipe.
She was in love with her match just as farmers are in love with wheat at eighty shillings a quarter; or shareholders innocent gudgeons with seven and half per cent. interest on their paid-up capital.
As prices in 1925 were approximately 40 per cent higher than in 1916, the cost of the same Government must also have increased. But the Government is not the same. It is more expensive to collect the much greater revenue necessary and to administer our great debt. We have given enlarged and improved services to agriculture and commerce. Above all, America has grown in population and wealth.
Elsa Doland, the pretty girl with the big eyes who sat on Mr. Bartlett's left, had other views. "Buy a theatre. Sally, and put on good stuff." "And lose every bean you've got," said a mild young man, with a deep voice across the table. "If I had a few hundred thousand," said the mild young man, "I'd put every cent of it on Benny Whistler for the heavyweight championship.
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