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"Depend upon it, Carbonnell, I never will marry without fortune." "I did not know that I had schooled you so well; be it so it is but fair that you should expect it; and it shall be an item in the match, if I have anything to do with it." "But why are you so anxious that I should marry, Carbonnell?"
Brown, you'll find that nobody will trouble you with such bills." "But they must be paid some day, George." "Of course they must; but it will never do to think of that now. In twelve months or so, when we have set the house well going, the payment of such bills as that will be a mere nothing, a thing that will be passed as an item not worth notice. Faint heart never won fair lady, you know, Mr.
His machines were to be sold at a fixed price, payable in installments if desired, with a guarantee of satisfaction. He set up a system of agencies to give instruction or to supply spare parts. Advertising, chiefly by exhibitions and contests at fairs and other public gatherings, was another item of his programme.
But before many weeks had passed this and every other item of news was driven out of our minds by a piece of intelligence which, in different ways, startled and excited the whole civilized world, for the reason that it promised to affect materially the destiny of all the nations of civilization.
Not only are we not paid now for our produce, but, if it is not given in to the day, we are driven and goaded by the officials; and if there be any further delay, we are manacled and severely reprimanded; so that if our own crops fail, we have to buy produce from other districts, and are pushed to the utmost extremity of affliction. "Item.
The little doors were put into the urns so that the man in charge of the flowers could reach up to them. But this item of expense was included among the sacrifices." The coloring of the columns had been a subject of some criticism. The ochre columns were generally admired; but the green columns were considered too atmospheric to give the sense of support.
She saw herself teaching her class in botany to analyze the flowers, to classify them, to tell every minute item concerning them, and she taught them nothing to say concerning the Creator. Was this "skim-milk" teaching? She knew so many ways in which, did she but have this belief concerning heaven, and Christ, and the judgment, in her heart, she could impress it upon her scholars.
If you will get some expert to go through the schedules of the present Payne-Aldrich tariff, you will find a "nigger" concealed in almost every woodpile, some little word, some little clause, some unsuspected item, that draws thousands of dollars out of the pockets of the consumer and yet does not seem to mean anything in particular.
"Have you recovered from the fatigues of Saturday, Mrs. Belgrave?" asked Lord Tremlyn. "Entirely, my Lord. I am quite ready for the next item in your programme," replied the lady. "How did you enjoy the play, madam?" inquired Sir Modava. "As a religious exhibition, from my point of view, it was a failure."
It was not the death alone that was to please God, but the long manner of it, the summed-up account of suffering, the interest paid on the capital of life after it was invested in death. God was to be pleased with items, and the sum of them. Item, a sleepless night. Item, a bad cold, caught by kneeling on the damp stones. Item, a dish of sweets refused on a feast-day.
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