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Her wages will average seventy-five dollars a day; it costs twenty dollars a day to feed her crew; incidentals, say twenty dollars a day; insurance, say, four dollars a day; wireless, three and a half dollars; depreciation, say, two dollars and seventy-five cents a day; total in round figures two hundred and thirty-five dollars a day.
His sharp old eyes ran up and down the column of figures. Something among the items seemed to annoy him. "Looking at those 'incidentals'? I took those from the check-books. They are pretty heavy." "It's an outrage!" exclaimed the old man, indignantly, "that there $32.50 to the telegraph company. How's it come you didn't have a Western Union frank this year? I s'posed you had one.
"Am I to be their guest entirely, papa?" asked Patty. "Mr. Farrington insisted that you should, but I wouldn't agree to that. I shall pay all your travelling expenses, hotel bills, and incidentals. But if they take a furnished house in Paris for the season, as they expect to do, you will stay there as their guest."
I might trace the girl to her hiding-place for you! She has surely been sent home by sea!" Alixe Delavigne was gliding up and down the room as noiselessly as a serpent. She abruptly stopped her march. "I will find her in Europe! What do you require to follow my orders for three months? To wait here and then to take the road or to join me in Europe! I pay all expenses and incidentals.
At these times the thought of liberty became a passion with us. Still, we never minimized the danger nor allowed ourselves to become too optimistic. We knew what was ahead of us if we were caught: the cells and the Strafe-Barrack, with incidentals. On the fourth day we crossed an open patch of country, lightly wooded, and then came to a wide moor which offered us no protection whatever.
When a man particularly an obnoxious foreigner lands there, they are rather more than likely to forget little incidentals like food and water. And if he should happen to be of a nation without diplomatic representation here, as is the case with the United States at present, he might well lie there incomunicado until his hearing, which might be in two days or might not be for a month.
Said he wasn't going to pay ten dollars fare and incidentals any more, to come down from Chicago on Christmas Day for an all-afternoon view of his brother's feet as said brother lay piled up on the sofa. He was going to come down after this on the Fourth of July. It doesn't affect the women so badly because they don't eat so much. They haven't time.
We don't know who rules over us even ... we don't know that!" "No," I echoed, "we don't know that." Failure in a Modern Utopia Section 1 The old Utopias save for the breeding schemes of Plato and Campanella ignored that reproductive competition among individualities which is the substance of life, and dealt essentially with its incidentals.
Presently Mother Mary Superior and my two sisters came to us in the reception room and my brother deposited the fund for my school incidentals, and after a brief conversation, departed. The preparations in connection with my coming had been so rapidly carried out that I had had little time in which to question or anticipate what my reception at the convent might be.
They will spend at least twenty-five to thirty dollars in flowers; and refreshments will cost fifty more; and music another twenty-five; and incidentals twenty-five extra and so on. Is that right, Sarah, these times, and as people ought to live now?" "But some one gets the benefit of all this money spent. Surely that is a help to some of the working people."
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