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You'll let us have any mortar and cement that are needed for nothing, Doyle; so we'll only have to pay for labour. I'll superintend the erection without charging a fee. Illuminated Address, £4. Bouquet £1 is. That's a good deal to give for a bouquet, but I don't think we'll get a decent one for less.
"This matter may be different; in a way it is. But not as Mr. Holliday Kendrick sees it. When a lawyer accepts a retaining fee not for one case but for all cases which his client may give him he is, by the ethics of his profession, honor bound to " "Honor!" scornfully. "Suppose we omit the 'honor'." "That is not easy to do. I AM my cousin's attorney. But, as Mrs. Barnes' friend and yours, I "
Judson, and grasping his arm, led him out under it in the dark; while a fee, put into the hand, first of the turnkey and then of the porter, may have secured that the four legs under the cloak should pass unobserved.
In the midst of their trouble, says Mr. Jefferson, "a young lawyer called on the Managers. He had heard of the injustice, and offered, if they would place the matter in his hands, to have the license taken off, declaring that he only wanted to see fair play, and he would accept no fee whether he failed or succeeded. The case was brought up before the council. The young lawyer began his harangue.
"You will not get your fee," laughed Chowles, as they were left alone. "So it appears," replied Judith, taking the pan from the fire; "there is no use in wasting a poultice." Shortly after this, the door of the vault again opened, and Parravicin looked in.
Lady Forester's servant, of tried fidelity, had been employed by her to propitiate the Doctor by a suitable fee, and a story intimating that a soldier's wife desired to know the fate of her husband a subject upon which, in all probability, the sage was very frequently consulted.
There would be an agent's fee for him in the deal, if it went through, and Mr Mariner was not a man who despised money in small quantities. There was a touch of hopefulness in his gloom this morning, like the first intimation of sunshine after a wet day.
"'A very strange animal, I began, suspiciously, for I felt sure that he was lying to me. But just at that moment I heard the sound of my men's voices. They were advancing towards me through the giant grass, singing as they came, but as yet a long way off. The Kalubi heard it also and sprang up. "'I must be gone, he said. 'None must see me here. What fee, O Lord of medicine, what fee?
"Now and then I make use of it, though I don't, as a rule, get a fee." Then he looked rather hard at Nasmyth. "Quite a few of us find it advisable to let our professions go when we come to this country." Nasmyth nodded, for this was a thing he had discovered already. Many of the comrades he had made there were outcasts men outside the pale and they were excellent comrades, too.
I thought he would add something definite when we came to separate, and, to loosen his tongue, I gave him an extra fee, but he added never a word, and, unless I am mistaken, regretted what he had already said."
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