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"I couldn't see my dear old master go away alone into danger." "And I couldn't see my dear old father go away alone into danger." "Of course you couldn't, Master Marcus. I say, my lad, you know what I used to tell you about enemies doing when they come to a check like what they settled was best." "What, made a truce?" said Marcus. "Yes, my lad.
Along all the border the mere presence of Richard seemed to check Philip's advance and to bring to a better mind his own barons who had been disposed to aid the enemy.
I tell you so candidly; I will not even allow her memory to check me, if I find you continue your late course. You have shown disaffection before the crew you have disputed my orders and I have every reason to believe that you are now plotting against me.
But pulled together by the fine and firm fingers that seemed to guide rather than check his exuberance, he presently struck into the long, swinging pace of his kind, and kept it throughout without "break" or acceleration.
Of course he blew up! He sent for her, and she came right in, scared to death. He told her that he'd give away the whole story to Prendergast, or else he'd give her a check for five hundred dollars on her wedding day. She fell for it, and we said good-bye.
"I mean what you know very well your letter which you wrote to Frederick, inclosing your forged check." "I never forged a check, and I never wrote a letter inclosing one!" cried Sir Lionel. "Dalton forged that letter himself, if there is such a letter. He was an accomplished forger, and has suffered for it." "The letter is your own," said Lady Dudleigh, "and I can swear to it."
Take care that you do not overdraw. Keep your own record of your own money. In the Commercial banks of our large cities no interest is allowed, nor could it be easily calculated where a score of deposits may be made in a week and a hundred checks drawn in a day. The depositor in such a bank is free to check out his funds as he pleases.
He still, no doubt, did homage to female beauty, but he led a regular life, and had become one of the most ardent and earnest upholders of religion and virtue. He was one of the learned circle which gathered round Julia Domna, and it was by her desire that he had accompanied Caracalla, to keep his mad passions in check when it might be possible.
Is it that Nature, "so careful of the type" imposes Malthusian practices to avoid the danger of overcrowding the "never-surfeited sea?" Notwithstanding the positive check upon increase, the young are produced in myriads.
"I gave him a check for ten thousand dollars!" "Of all the fools!" said Mr Goble with a sharp laugh. He caught Wally's eye and subsided once more. Mr Pilkington's fingers strayed agitatedly to his spectacles. "I may have been a fool," he cried shrilly, "though I was perfectly willing to risk the money, had it been applied to the object for which I gave it.
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