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Mademoiselle Choin remained alone in her garret, and unaware of what had taken place. She learned it only by the cry raised. Nobody thought of telling her. At last some friends went up to her, hurried her into a hired coach, and took her to Paris. The dispersion was general. One or two valets, at the most, remained near the body.
Tell 'em to rush out an announcement that the big fillum is going to be released two months before expected on account the demand of the public is so strong to see sooner the greatest vampire feature ever fillumed." Quinlan was no office boy, but he obeyed as smartly as might any newly hired office boy. If it was Mr.
Karfa agreed with me in this opinion, and hired from the chief man of the town huts for their accommodation, and a piece of land on which to employ them in raising corn and other provisions for their maintenance. With regard to himself, he declared that he would not quit me until my departure from Africa.
Of course, we had other subjects in common, especially those connected with Retief's massacre, whereof we were the only two survivors, but of these I seldom cared to speak. They were and still remain too painful. Therefore, for my part I was thankful when at last, in Zululand, we fell in with some traders whom I knew, who hired us one of their wagons.
Going round on wheels to be hired out, just the ordinary tin tub of commerce. The fellows were shouting something 'Who'll buy a wash! I suppose. But that's the disadvantage of a foreign language; it leaves so much to the imagination." "The goats were nice," I said, "so promiscuous. I saw one of them looking out of a window."
To this point large bungos come up the river, and Don Pedro had been very wishful to get it opened out above for navigation, but had not succeeded. There were very few men to be hired at Ocotal, and we determined to go on to Depilto, a small mining town near the Honduras boundary, where we were assured there were plenty to be obtained.
M. Lantin replied, seriously: "It is only another way of investing one's money." That day he lunched at Voisin's and drank wine worth twenty francs a bottle. Then he hired a carriage and made a tour of the Bois, and as he scanned the various turn-outs with a contemptuous air he could hardly refrain from crying out to the occupants: "I, too, am rich! I am worth two hundred thousand francs."
The crusades, about which one of the next chapters tells, were followed by a great revival of trade. Cities grew overnight. The townspeople became rich, hired good school teachers and soon were the equals of the knights.
Those wandering dervishes of the industrial world, the hobo, the tramp the entire family of Weary Willies and Tired Timothys will no longer have even an imaginary excuse for their troubled and troublesome existence. But the farmer who was the prey of these pests must, if he would be permanently rid of them, learn to respect his hired farm hand.
Three shillings is the lowest, and I never recommended it. Whisky! there is not a drop in the shop. Who dare say I would turn this shop into a public-house? I'll be at the bottom of this, though it cost me a thousand pounds. Who hired ye to carry round the board, ye peetiful creature? If ye don't tell the truth I'll commit ye to gaol this very meenute."
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