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And, in the meantime, the sun has plumped his hot face into the water, and the moon has shown hers as soon as ever his back is turned, and Mrs. Dear, dear Maria! Is this the woman who, anon, braved the jeers and brutal wrath of swindling hackney-coachmen; who repelled the insolence of haggling porters, with a scorn that brought down their demands at least eighteenpence?
After some haggling with the emperor's secretary, and his insistence that it was a matter of the utmost importance that could not wait until morning, he was finally told His Majesty would see him. "Got it," Hawarden rose. "Come along." Hanlon started toward the door, then looked down at his torn and dirty clothing. "I'm not very presentable." "We can get you a uniform from the barracks."
It was contemptible for a man in love to count his words, and it was intolerable to be haggling with himself at such a crisis over the expense of a despatch. He got cold over the thought that Irene might also count them, and see that the cost of this message of passion had been calculated.
No matter what your embarrassments previously were, the fortune must have been sufficient to cover them and enrich you enormously besides!" replied Velletri. "Count, I was robbed of my legacy dastardly robbed," whined Fougereuse. The Italian rose up angrily. "Marquis," said he, "I am not used to bargaining and haggling. I ask you for the last time, what is your decision? I offer you peace or war.
Don't go haggling over differences in politics and religion. These things are utterly futile. What does it matter whether your nation is the eldest daughter of the Church or the eldest daughter of Reason? The only thing that does matter is that it should live! Everything that exalts life is good. There is only one enemy, pleasure-seeking egoism, which fouls the sources of life and dries them up.
Once more now we moved our camp, the girl returning for the horse and our scanty belongings. Always now we ate, haggling out the hump ribs, the tongue, the rich back fat; so almost immediately we began to gain In strength. All the next day we worked as we could at drying the meat, and taking the things we needed from the carcass. We got loose one horn, drying one side of the head in the fire.
The waterman, pulling to the schooner, talked with the man for a moment, evidently settling the amount of his fare. After the haggling, my gentleman climbed into the boat by a little rope-ladder at the stern. Then the boatman pulled away upstream, going on the last of the flood, within twenty yards of where I stood.
In three or in two parallel columns, artillery between them, horse ahead, horse arear; haggling along there; making for their bread-baskets, thinks the King. A body of French, horse chiefly, under St.
He drank and went on: "I shall have plenty of time: I'll go on to Versailles when it's all over." Goujart was heard haggling with the landlady over the price of the dueling-ground.
Worn out at last by the haggling and delay, an officer of the garrison finally ordered the militia officers to withdraw their forces. By the advice of some determined radical Buonaparte again, in all probability the latter flatly refused, and the night was spent in preparation for a conflict which seemed inevitable.
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