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“That picture!” he exclaimed. “What picture—Eurer Gnaden?” inquired the shopkeeper, bowing in the most elegant manner. “It hangs at your door—Joan of Arc, I wish to buy it.” “It is not for sale, Eurer Gnaden.” “Bah!” ejaculated Milor, “I must have it. I will cover it with guineas.” “It is impossible.”
But Watty would have none of the five guineas she tried to force on him. "Well, I think none the worse of you for that," she cried. "Come, give us a kiss, at anyrate." And with a shudder Watty Scott saluted his bride.
"You could have got the best of her, though, if you had gone to work in the proper way. You should never have paid in advance. I know everything." "What do you mean?" "I know she has cost you a hundred guineas, and that you have not won so much as a kiss from her. Why, my dear sir, you might have had her comfortably in your own bed for as much!
After the Earl of Hillsborough had carefully perused the letter and examined into Captain Godfrey's affairs, His Lordship was most generously pleased to present him with twenty guineas out of his private purse for present relief, until His Lordship could more essentially serve him. Not long afterward Captain Godfrey's case was laid before the Right Honourable the Lords of Trade.
'Kills himself, in fact, said Wilkins Flasher, Esquire. 'Just so, replied Mr. Simmery, putting it down. "Flasher ten guineas to five, Boffer kills himself." Within what time shall we say? 'A fortnight? suggested Wilkins Flasher, Esquire. 'Con-found it, no, rejoined Mr. Simmery, stopping for an instant to smash a fly with the ruler. 'Say a week.
"When a man gives his guinea for what is worth one hundred guineas, or when a man bets say one to ten, if he wins, does not the loser make a free gift to him? There is no compulsion. He stakes his bigger sum willingly, and loses it willingly." "Nay, not so," said Amos. "He is not willing to lose his larger sum; he makes no out-and-out gift of it.
"Ne pas être dupe" was one of his determinations, and, though he began by caring little for making money, he was always fond of spending it. "I tell you it is too much," he said to Murray, in returning a thousand guineas for the Corinth and Partsina.
As for the price, when once you have taken the ticket off a hat the secret of its price is gone forever. Many a hat less smart than this hat has been marked in Bond Street at ten guineas instead of ten shillings. Hats are like oil-paintings they are worth what people will give for them. So Vera approached her husband, and said, with an enchanting, innocent smile
Others found it necessary to purchase the connivance of the agents of the government by presents of hogsheads of wine, and of gloves stuffed with guineas. It was impossible for the separatists to pray together without precautions such as are employed by coiners and receivers of stolen goods. The places of meeting were frequently changed.
"True, my dear; and without good golden guineas, we should not have had Nick." "But, sir, I pay as liberally as he can wish," observed the major. "If bribes will buy him, mine are as good as another's." "We shall see under actual circumstances, I think we shall be, in every respect, safer, by keeping nothing back, than by telling all to the people."
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