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She wished me to have a part of the money; but this I flatly refused, lest I should be evil spoken of in this matter. I then offered to pay her travelling expenses, as she had come to me, which she would not accept, as she did not stand in need of it. In conclusion, I told her that I would now further pray respecting this matter, and consider what to do concerning it.
"I suppose that's all true but you draw only about six thousand a year for personal expenses a good clerk could get that and you, admittedly the most brilliant physicist of the Earth, are satisfied! I don't feel we're paying you properly!" Arcot's expression became suddenly serious. "You can repay me this time," he said, "for this latest discovery has made a new thing possible.
As to his remaining permanently at peace with Spain, that would seem quite out of the question." The King had long kept, according to treaty, a couple of French regiments in the States' service, and furnished, or was bound to furnish, a certain yearly sum for their support. But the expenses of the campaigning had been rapidly increasing and the results as swiftly dwindling.
Massif will pay all the expenses of the first edition of one thousand, and if there is another edition and of course there will be! he will give him ten cents a copy. Amedee signs without reading. All that he asks is that the volume should be published without delay. "Rest easy, my dear poet! You will receive the first proofs in three days, and in one month it will appear." Was it possible?
It is a proud moment in a woman's life to reign supreme within four walls, to be the one to whom all questions of domestic pleasure and economy are referred, and to hold in her hand that little family book in which the daily expenses, the outgoings and incomings, are duly registered. I studied up everything pertaining to housekeeping, and enjoyed it all.
If violence or fraud were alleged, lawyers always got the accused off in a strictly legal manner. In these matters, it must be repeated, no opprobrium ever rested on either the big lawyers or the big operators. "Expenses" went to the underlings, and after some mysterious subterranean manipulation, of which the big fellows remained blandly unconscious, results came back.
The expenses of the year had been very heavy, owing to several causes; first some house repairs had become inevitable, and the landlord offering us only the option of doing them at our own cost or leaving the house, we had to order them.
What of the theory that more honour means also more responsibility and worry, that more pay also means more expenses and a more difficult position, that more seniority also means less youth and joy that Fate only robs Peter to pay Paul, and, when bestowing a blessing with one hand, invariably bestows a curse with the other? Too thin.
"Oh, just the bare expenses of the survey nothing much." "Then," she said, "if you don't mind returning my thirty thousand dollars, I think I'll relinquish my share." He rose hurriedly. "But I but you it won't be possible just yet," he stammered. "This is perfectly absurd! I want you in want you to retain your interest.
The "Tribune" appeared on the day set apart in New York for the funeral procession in commemoration of President Harrison, who died a month after his inauguration. It was a chilly, dismal day in April, and all the town was absorbed in the imposing pageant. The receipts during the first week were ninety-two dollars; the expenses five hundred and twenty-five.
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