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"Didn't I see you give that man a letther for fourpence, and a bigger letther than this? Do you think I'm a fool?" "No," said the postmaster; "I'm sure of it." He walked off to serve another customer, and Andy meditated. His master wanted the letter badly, so he would have to pay the exorbitant price.
To attach his soldiery to his cause, he lavished upon them immense sums of money; he was therefore forced to exact exorbitant tributes, almost to drain the land of its last dollar, in order to satisfy his rapacious followers.
And that is my plan. If we make money it won't be filched by a complex process from the other fellow's pockets; it won't be wealth created by shearing lambs in the market, by sweatshop labor, or adulterated food, or exorbitant rental of filthy tenements. And I have no illusions about the men I'm dealing with.
For that reason people are exterminated and ruined in proportion as they are free take, for example, Switzerland, Holland, England, and the United States? Does not M. Louis Blanc tell us again, that competition leads to monopoly, and that, for the same reason, cheapness leads to exorbitant prices?
Another cause of emigration is to be found in the high and exorbitant rents at which land is held by all classes of farmers with some exceptions we admit, as in the case of old leases but especially by those who hold under middlemen, or on the principle of subletting generally.
The personal cost, if it could not be wholly realised on the existing patrimony of the magistrate, must be assisted by gifts from friends, by loans from money-lenders at exorbitant rates of interest and, worst but readiest of all methods, by contributions, nominally voluntary but really enforced, from the Italian allies and the provincials.
After some most extraordinary bargaining and after tempting him with solid, visible gold, we each secured a scjambok and a knobkerry at exorbitant prices, and left him even then grumbling and growling. Scjamboks are whips made of rhinoceros' hide. They take a beautiful polish, and a good one is indestructible.
The contractors received the cost of construction plus a percentage commission; obviously they had no incentive to economize; the greater the expense the larger their commission. Hence they willingly paid exorbitant prices for materials and agreed to "fancy" wages.
The council was in session and hundreds of citizens were there to protest against any more deals in letting contracts at exorbitant prices. I opened and read aloud the various bids, including that of the big boss, Jeff Rowley, adding that Jeff's bid had been filed too late to be legal. "You lie!" he screamed. "You're a Welsh liar, and I'll kill you for this!"
I remark that poverty touches Him. The Bible says that this woman had spent all her money on physicians; she had not got the worth of her money. Those physicians in Oriental lands were very incompetent for their work, and very exorbitant in their demands. You know they have a habit even to this day in those countries of making very singular charges.
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