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If these educational courses were held in the autumn in the training camps of the troops, they would entail little extra cost, and an inestimable advantage would be gained with a very trifling outlay.
The musicians were just putting away their instruments, having played till the last guests were out of hearing. "Just one more, will you?" he asked, grinning at them in a way which they understood meant an extra fee. Then he came back to Sally. "Now for it!" he said. "I never did this myself, nor heard of it but if we can't do an impromptu turn to-night, on our high spirits, we never can again.
It was nice of the housemaid, of course, to try to black the extra pair to keep John out of trouble, but she might have been more discriminating.
"Will my ladies eat from table linen extra, sixpence?" asked Betty, bending her knee in what might have been called a perpendicular courtesy. Had she been sure that her customers were of high rank, she would have saluted them with a low bow, omitting to mention the extra charge for the linen. But as Frances and Nelly were not escorted by a gentleman, she was not sure of their station.
In a day or two you must pay this quarter's rent, and that will leave us just about fifteen pounds in the world. Where is the rent at Christmas to come from? What are we to live upon? There's all sorts of clothing to be bought; there'll be all the extra expenses of winter. Surely it's bad enough that we have had to stay here all the summer; no holiday of any kind.
"There you go, face downwards, every man Jack of you," she said. "And, for all I care, there you may stay." Then she turned round, confronting Dominic Iglesias, who had risen also, her head carried high, her teeth set. "You may not grasp the connection of ideas I don't the very least see how you should, and I've no extra special wish that you should.
This would have made the regular administrative body, already twice as numerous and twice as costly as under the ancient regime, an extra corps expending, "simply in surveillance," one hundred millions more than the entire taxation of the country, the greatness of which had excited the people against the ancient regime.
No matter what the character that Mrs. Kean was assuming, she always used to wear her hair drawn flat over her forehead and twisted tight round her ears in a kind of circular sweep such as the old writing-masters used to make when they attempted an extra grand flourish. And then the amount of petticoats she wore!
On several other occasions Vanderveer was called to testify in this case and there were times when it was thought that he also would be indicted and brought to trial, yet with this extra work and the threat of imprisonment hanging over him, Vanderveer never flagged in his keen attention to the work of the defense.
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