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The soldier of fortune thought no longer of his nest-eggs his Unitas Bank deposit-notes. He was fighting with time and with death; foes dire and dreadful, against whose encroachments the sturdiest of mortal warriors can make but a feeble stand. He found the dingy-looking house in the dingy-looking street; and the humble drudge who opened the door informed him that Mr.
In short, you will make him fork out another hundred and fifty thousand francs to add to our nest-eggs within a week." "Madame might give me a little help," said Europe. "Tell her so, for she sits there mumchance, and obliges me to find more inventions than three authors for one piece." "If Esther turns prudish, just let me know," said Carlos.
But there still remained the other one, the really annihilating effect of the expense on the nest-eggs, and especially on Mrs. Wilkins's, which was in size, compared with Mrs. Arbuthnot's, as the egg of the plover to that of the duck; and this in its turn was overcome by the vision vouchsafed to Mrs. Wilkins, revealing to her the steps to be taken for its overcoming.
That boy beats anything this here country ever perduced, barrin' none, and I ain't sayin' that, either, ma'am, just to please you." "Much thanks I owe you for what you think of Joe!" said she, scornfully. "You was ready enough, not so very long ago, to set the whole world ag'in' him if you could." "Well, circumstantial evidence " began Sol. "Oh, circumstantial nest-eggs!" said she, impatiently.
It must be that Jimmy Skunk pulled it out of one of those lower nests." Now he knew just which nests had contained nest-eggs, and it didn't take but a minute to find that none was missing in any of the lower nests. "That's queer," he muttered. "That egg must have come from one of the upper nests. Jimmy couldn't have got up to those.
Charles Shannon being extolled, to humiliate some enterprising student, as a "traditional artist." Why, it would be as sensible to call the man who makes nest-eggs a traditional Buff Orpington!
My eggs are gone, I tell you, and who should take 'em but that lad, I'd like to know? 'Them was two rotten nest-eggs as I throwed away when I was cleaning the stable. 'Who told you to put in your word, John Farden? screamed Mrs. Shepherd, turning on him. 'Ye'd best mind what ye're about, or ye'll be after him soon. 'No loss neither, muttered John, stopping to pick up his shovel.
The pile grew and grew: a woolly lamb, two Noah's arks, bottles and marbles innumerable, a bag of pebbles, a broken steam engine, two china nest-eggs, an orange, a banana and some walnuts, a fishing line, a trowel, a ball of string. These give an idea of the quality of Peter's effects, but not of the quantity. Ellen the cook labored loyally, for it was her last week's work with the family.
And with respect to the gold or silver coins, they are so mixed and mingled in country and date, that I cannot suppose they could be any genuine hoard, and rather suppose them to be, like the purses upon the table of Hudibras's lawyer Money placed for show, Like nest-eggs, to make clients lay, And for his false opinions pay. It is the trick of all professions, my dear Sir Arthur.
With books and money placed for show, Like nest-eggs to make clients lay, And for his false opinion pay. Hudibras. Our readers may recollect a certain smooth-tongued, lank-haired, buckram-suited, Scottish scrivener, who, in the earlier part of this history, appeared in the character of a protege of George Heriot. It is to his house we are about to remove, but times have changed with him.
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