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On her side, Montalais was no miser with stories. By her means, Malicorne learnt all that passed at Blois, in the family of the dowager Madame; and he related to Manicamp tales that made him ready to die with laughing, which the latter, out of idleness, took ready-made to M. de Guiche, who carried them to Monsieur.
'But I cannot fly to starve; give me thy bag of gold! And the youth snatched at it. 'Wretch! wouldst thou rob thy father? 'Ay! who can tell the tale in this hour? Miser, perish! The boy struck the old man to the ground, plucked the bag from his relaxing hand, and fled onward with a shrill yell. 'Ye gods! cried Glaucus: 'are ye blind, then, even in the dark?
She's always asking me for more, for one thing; but, then women alway do. And look 'ow bad it is for her saving money like that on the sly. She might grow into a miser, pore thing. For 'er own sake I ought to get hold of it, if it's only to save her from 'erself." Mr. Chase's face reflected the gravity of his own. "You're the only man I can trust," continued Mr.
The fairies guarded the berries as carefully as a miser guards his gold, and whenever they were about to leave fairyland they had to promise in the presence of the king and queen that they would not give a single berry to mortal man, nor allow one to fall upon the earth; for if a single berry fell upon the earth a slender tree of many branches, bearing clusters of berries, would at once spring up, and mortal men might eat of them.
He was neither miser nor mercenary; he did not labor to accumulate perhaps because he was a lucky accumulator without any painstaking of his own: but he was, by nature an aristocrat, and not unwilling to compel respect through the means of money, as through any other more noble agency of intellect or morals.
The passion for collecting which leads a man to be a systematic naturalist, a virtuoso, or a miser, was very strong in me, and was clearly innate, as none of my sisters and brothers ever had this taste." Some of the incidents of his Cambridge life which he records are full of interest in their bearing on his future career.
German grand strategy and Verdun Why the British did not go to Verdun What they did to help Racial characteristics in armies Father Joffre a miser of divisions The Somme country Age-old tactics If the flank cannot be turned can the front be broken? Theory of the Somme offensive.
Men who seek money and goods may therefore be seeking very different things; one is merely acquisitive, has the miser trend; another loves the game for the game's sake, picks up houses, bonds, money, ships, as a fighter picks up trophies, and they stand to him as symbols of his superiority.
As time, however, wore on, his heart began to expand to human affections; for we have seen, how fond he became of the society, first, of Faith, and, finally, of his brother; deriving, possibly, a sort of insane gratification from even the concealment of his relationship, as a miser gloats over the security of his hoard.
"Oh, Ernest," she said brokenly, "Jacob Patterson has just been here and he says he says " "What has that old miser been saying to trouble you?" demanded Ernest angrily, taking her hands in his. "He says he holds your father's promissory note for nine hundred dollars, overdue for several years," answered Mrs. Duncan. "Yes and he showed me the note, Ernest."
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