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"But has your wisdom considered, sir," replied Glenvarloch, "how this wedlock can serve me in my present emergence?" "As for that, my lord," said Duke Hildebrod, "if, with forty or fifty thousand pounds in your pouch, you cannot save yourself, you will deserve to lose your head for your folly, and your hand for being close-fisted."
Mason of Groby Park. I shall not trouble the reader at present with much description of the young Masons. The eldest son was in the army, and the younger at Cambridge, both spending much more money than their father allowed them. Not that he, in this respect, was specially close-fisted.
At one-and-twenty he was that most odious of all odious characters a close-fisted reprobate. He was a small man, not ill-made by Nature, but reduced to unnatural tenuity by dissipation a corporeal attribute of which he was apt to boast, as it enabled him, as he said, to put himself up at 7 st. 7 lb. without any "d nonsense of not eating and drinking."
She let Carl know that she considered him close-fisted for never taking her to the movies on Sunday afternoons, but he patted her head and talked to her like a big brother and kept himself from noticing that she had clinging hands and would be rather pretty, and he bought her a wholesome woman's magazine to read not an entirely complete solution to the problem of what to do with the girl whom organized society is too busy to nourish, but the best he could contrive just then.
But he did not wish all the world to know that, nor even his alter ego, Solomon Coe. Trevethick, although a close-fisted fellow, was no miser in the vulgar sense. He kept this vast sum at hand, partly because he had no confidence in ordinary securities, and partly because he wished to be in a position, at a moment's notice, to accomplish his darling scheme.
His father, a close-fisted farmer and an elder brother of the same character, converted the boyhood life of John Fitch into a long day of grief and humiliation and a long night of gloomy dreams. Then at length came an ill-advised and ill-starred marriage, which broke under him and left him to wander forth in desolation.
"True," said the traveler, seeming to fall into the landlord's mood. "Executors often change the public estimate of a man as to this world's goods. So, Aaron Thompson is one of your rich men?" "Yes, and there's Abel Reeder a close-fisted old dog, but wealthy as a Jew, and no mistake. Then there is Captain Allen."
You shall get payment and sucking pig too." Yet this overflowing magnanimity was not at all in conformity with the well-established habits of the devotee. Close-fisted niggardliness displayed itself in his every feature and warred against this unnatural outbreak. The gypsy woman kissed his hand and thanked him.
The other day when I said that about old Welborne a-sendin' you a bunch o' flowers to decorate Dick's grave I wasn't actually thinkin' about you as much as I was about Welborne an' his close-fisted ways.
He wants something, and he can afford to pay, though he seems very close-fisted at present." "What does he want?" growled the monk. The scoundrel who bore the title of prince made a grimace, and said: "He wants to put a suggestion before you. He refuses to tell me what it is except that it is very urgent and brooks no delay.
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