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Bascomb, plainly taken aback. "Oh, we're not millionaires," Tom laughed easily. "Yet I fancy Hazelton and I could raise enough money to fight any breach-of-contract case in court. With a steady-paying mine, you know, we could even discount to some extent the earnings of future years." "Oh, well, we don't want hard feelings," urged Mr. Bascomb, his manner becoming more peaceable.
Chiefly she bore a grudge against the shopkeepers; and when, upon a rumour of peace, the shop-windows one day suddenly blossomed with prodigious quantities of all edibles, at highest prices, thus proving that the famine was artificially created, Sophia was furious. M. Niepce in particular, though he sold goods to her at a special discount, suffered indignities.
"I think a share of it belongs to me; but I am willing to discount my claim, you see." "Discount it?" queried Leopold. "I can't wait a year or two till you find out whether or not the man that buried the gold has any heirs or not." "I am very sorry you are so impatient." "I want the money now, when my governor is cruel to me.
Barbet was the terror of printers, who could not tell what to make of him; he paid cash and took off the discount; he nibbled at their invoices whenever he thought they were pressed for money; and when he had fleeced a man once, he never went back to him he feared to be caught in his turn. "Well," said Lousteau, "shall we go on with our business?"
He compared it with a well known English railway. The Irish one, he said, had cost in its construction £15,000 per mile; the English, upwards of £26,000 per mile; the weekly traffic on the two railways, allowing for some difference in their extent, was about the same on both, varying in amount from £1,000 to £1,300 per week; yet the unfinished British railway was at £40 premium in the market, the unfinished Irish one at £2 discount.
Consequently they use the word "mind" with the imprudence of a banker who should discount a trade bill without ascertaining whether the payment of that particular piece of paper had been provided for. This amounts to saying that the discussion of philosophical problems takes especially a verbal aspect; and the more complex the phenomena a concept thus handled, contains, the more dangerous it is.
The example is being followed by the exchange of gold trinkets for trinkets made of iron, with the addition of the price paid at the central collecting station paid, of course, in paper, which is at a 30 per cent. discount in Germany and 47 per cent. discount in Austria. The gold hunt has revealed unexpected possessions in the hands of the German and Austrian lower classes.
Smith, "He evidently tried to get the best he could." "Yes," admitted Miss Sally. "He wouldn't know this box of candy so well as we town folks do, him bein' a newcomer here. I suppose Rudge gave him a discount off the price on account of the box bein' soiled a little. I hope to goodness that man wasn't so foolish as to go an' pay straight sixty cents a pound for it.
For our ravished one you will, I suppose, permit his beloved country to pay in its new paper money at 'most any discount and call it square, eh?" Half the bitterness of her tone was in its sweetness. In a sudden white heat the granddaughter clutched one aged knee with both hands: "Wait! If I don't get seven times all it was ever worth, the Yankees shall!"
But to-day, with Princess Heinrich frowning, heaven at a discount, and everybody rather ashamed of themselves, was it likely that I should desire to upset her again? Victoria was quite of this optimistic opinion. Our interview was interrupted by the arrival of Bederhof, who came to take my final commands with regard to the marriage arrangements.
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