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"God bless you, Solomon Mahaffy!" cried the judge unsteadily. "I've got the boy he's with me," said Mahaffy. "God bless you both!" repeated the judge brokenly. "Take care of him, Solomon. I feel better now, knowing he's in good hands." "Please, Judge " it was Hannibal "Yes, dear lad?" "I'm mighty sorry that ten dollars I loaned you was bad but you don't need ever to pay it back!"
It instantly came to me that the three had been brought into line for Cromwell by their powerful business associates in Wall Street, probably by the great bankers who loaned them money. Swift upon the surge of anger I had suppressed before it flamed at the surface came a surge of triumph which I also suppressed.
"Pressnell's foreman!" said he, recalling both man and incident. "The cow has a roan calf. Sit down. Will you need a fresh horse to-day? Do you like lettuce?" "I reckon, Nat," said the other foreman, an hour later, as the two mounted loaned horses, "I reckon your big talk goes up in smoke. You're not the only director in this cattle company.
Washington was entertained in the home of Robert Morris, a patriot banker, without whose help, in raising money, Washington could not have saved the country and who more than once had come to the aid of the army. At this time, he loaned the government $20,000 in gold, and at about the same time, France sent the colonists more than a million dollars in coin.
The Funding Act of 1876 repudiated $4,700,000 outright, reduced the bonds loaned to one railroad from $5,300,000 to $1,000,000, gave land in payment of $2,000,000 more, scaled other bonds one-half, and funded still others at par excluding interest. About $13,000,000 in all was repudiated and the State was left with a debt of less than $10,000,000 .
"What was in it?" "Nothing." "How far was it from your room?" "Just across the street." "You say there was nothing in the valise?" "I don't think there was." "Where did you get it?" "I bought it in Indianapolis." "How did you happen to take it out Saturday night?" "I don't recollect just now." "Where is it now?" "I loaned it to a student of the name of Hackelman." "What did he want with it?"
Uniforms and clothing issued to enlisted men must not be sold, pawned, loaned, given away, lost or damaged through neglect or carelessness. Any soldier who violates this rule may be tried by a military court and punished.
Cole Martin, one of the men who loaned me the money, said to me: "Now, after the faro bank closes to-night, at my house, if you bring your keno over I will help you get up a game." "All right," I said; so I took it over, and opened on the billiard tables, and he brought all of his players into the room, and said, "Let us start this young man's game."
Lots, he said, were then on the market, and could be had far more reasonably than the lots in Rome. My fellow-citizens straightway began to pick out their lots in the new town. Webb loaned them the six-mule Government wagons to bring over their goods and chattels, together with the timbers of their houses.
His elder brother grew playful, and caught him by the baggy reverse of his more essential garment. "Hush!" said Mrs. Sprowle, "there's the bell!" Everybody took position at once, and began to look very smiling and altogether at ease. False alarm. Only a parcel of spoons, "loaned," as the inland folks say when they mean lent, by a neighbor.
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