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If it wasn't such a good loft, Mawruss, I would say it no, Mawruss, we shouldn't take the loft; but the loft is a first-class A Number One loft." "S'enough, Abe," Morris replied. "You don't have to tell it me a hundred times already. I ain't disputing it's a good loft; and so if Slotkin calls off the strike we take the loft." At this juncture the store door opened and Slotkin himself entered.
The only thing which causes me to hold aloof from him as much as I can is the strange clause in my father's will." "Strange clause?" echoed the old man. "What clause?" "My father, in his will, cut me off every benefit he could unless I married Benton's adopted daughter, Louise. If I marry her, then I obtain a quarter of a million. I at first thought of disputing the will, but Mr.
Yet there were sweet chains in the little hands that held her gown, and in the thought of the lonely old man who depended on her for enlivenment. The day was long, for Amoret was missed; and the two children were unusually fretful and quarrelsome without her, disputing over the new toys which Brother Amyas's guinea had furnished in demoralising profusion.
However strongly he had struggled against this conviction, he knew that she, if any one, could make his son happy far happier than he had ever been with the tall, slender, snow-white, unapproachable countess, who had helped bring him to ruin. While consuming the food and drink, he heard his wife, usually a most obedient daughter, disputing with her mother.
The women of the house, as a rule, worked harder than the men, and were almost always disputing. For thirty years past they had all shared the same character and represented almost the same type: foul, unkempt, termagacious, they shrieked and grew desperate upon the slightest provocation.
But from what she could gather of the incoherent and various projects they discussed, one after another disputing upon each with frightful oaths and scarce intelligible slang, she could only learn that it was resolved at all events to leave the district in which they were but whither seemed yet all undecided.
Through a haze of smoke she beheld groups of swarthy foreigners fiercely disputing among themselves apparently on the verge of actual combat, while a sprinkling of silent spectators of both sexes stood at the back of the hall.
Hvalinsky has no special gift of eloquence, or possibly has no opportunity of displaying his rhetorical powers, as he has a particular aversion, not only for disputing, but for discussion in general, and assiduously avoids long conversation of all sorts, especially with young people.
I came out of my little reverie to find that Gladys had appropriated my glass of water and Sahwah and Hinpoha were still disputing about being the head of the table. Finally, we jokingly advised Sahwah to ask the waiter, and she promptly took us up and did it, and found that Hinpoha was the head.
They were disputing about our earth, and doubted whether it could be inhabited. The atmosphere, they asserted, must be too dense for any inhabitants of the moon to exist there. They maintained that the moon alone was inhabited, and was really the heavenly body in which the old world people lived. They likewise talked politics.