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"We certainly are not female Croesuses!" "Perhaps you expect us to turn bandits and sandbag the good citizens on dark nights." Irene's smile did not fade; she simply glowed with glee at these characteristic protestations. "I can't blame you, girls, for you haven't thought the thing out, and I have," she stated.
So you see, dear Caroline, if birth gives any one a right to coats of arms and liveries, and all those things, I feel myself sufficiently entitled to have them. But I don't care anything about that. The Gnus, and Croesuses, and Silkes, and the Settum Downes, have their coats of arms, and crests, and liveries, and I am not going to be behind, I tell you. Mr.
The day before my departure one of these Siberian Croesuses died, and another was expected to follow his example before long. A church near the market place was built at the sole expense of this deceased individual. Its cost exceeded seven hundred thousand roubles, and its interior was said to be finely decorated.
But, as experience will soon teach the stranger, they are far less delicate than English horses. They get through a considerably greater quantity of work, and are less fatigued at the end of it. A walk down Collins Street or Flinders Lane would astonish some of the City Croesuses.
The good Deacon Twinkham himself, who had, at a late prayer-meeting, stated that "his feet already felt the splashin' of Jordan's waves," temporarily withdrew his aged limbs from the rugged banks famed in song, and caused them to bear him industriously up and down the Ridge Road, past Nathan's mother's house, until he saw all three of the bearded Croesuses seat themselves on the piazza to smoke.
Of course I could give it to some fund, or several funds, but it's a lot of money and I should like it to be used to the best advantage. Now what do you say?" "I say," said I, "that you Croesuses make a half-pay Major of Artillery's head reel.
'I warned you, my dear Arkady Nikolaitch, began Vassily Ivanitch, 'that we live, so to say, bivouacking.... 'There, stop that, what are you apologising for? Bazarov interrupted. 'Kirsanov knows very well we're not Croesuses, and that you have no butler. Where are we going to put him, that's the question?
Kennedy calmly passed over the open insult, letting it be understood that he ignored this beardless youth. "There is no way you can beat the game in the long run if you keep at it," he answered simply. "It is mathematically impossible. Consider. We are Croesuses we hire players to stake money for us on every possible number at every coup. How do we come out?
"Ah, well!" said the knight, stretching himself in his chair as the warmth of the liquor coursed through his inert blood; "I, too, would be loth to break the gallows' back! For fear of halters, we must alter our way of living; we must live close, Bardolph, till the wars make us Croesuses or food for crows.
Kennedy calmly passed over the open insult, letting it be understood that he ignored this beardless youth. "There is no way you can beat the game in the long run if you keep at it," he answered simply. "It is mathematically impossible. Consider. We are Croesuses we hire players to stake money for us on every possible number at every coup. How do we come out?
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