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The venality of the officials gives the heartless parvenu free scope for his arbitrary misdeeds, and without let or hindrance he persecutes all who are suspected of modernizing tendencies. He is enveloped in an atmosphere of crime and terror. Mapu was guilty of overdrawing his characters; he exceeded the limits of truth.
There, he issued a check to her for that amount unwittingly overdrawing his balance at the bank to do so and wrote this note to his mother: "Dear Mother: "I borrowed some money from you, and I am leaving this check to cover the amount. I am going on a fishing trip. Maybe to Mexico where dad made his stake. Thanks for the car today. "Your son, "Jack."
Play, from one aspect of it, is superfluous energy over and above what is necessary to digest, breathe, keep the heart and organic processes going; and most children who can not play, if they have opportunity, can neither study nor work without overdrawing their resources of vitality.
But the wonder was that the dinner went on without him. Then Melmotte referred to the purport of his call there that day. He would have to draw large cheques for his private wants. 'You don't give a dinner to an Emperor of China for nothing, you know. He had been in the habit of overdrawing on his private account, making arrangements with the manager.
He had begun to drink hard and when not in pool rooms or at the races, betting recklessly on the horses, squandering such huge sums, and overdrawing his check account so often that the bank was compelled to ask him to desist, he sat in the barrooms with his cronies till all hours of the morning when he would be brought home in a condition of shocking intoxication.
He valued far more than he did the promise of a mansion in the skies a certain tranquillity of spirit which comes of conscious virtue. "That credit may just balance the account," he reflected, "although it is quite probable I am still working in the red ink. Well I've asked Him for the privilege of overdrawing my account . . . we shall see what we shall see."
While the complete man can do and sometimes does this, woman has a far greater and very peculiar power of overdrawing her reserves.
On the next day he went into the City, and changed his mother's cheque. This was done after a little hesitation: The money was given to him, but a gentleman from behind the desks begged him to remind Lady Carbury that she was overdrawing her account.
"Please, ma'am," said Matilda, who had been maturing a plan, "you might make out a check to me, dated last week, before you sailed, and I could get it cashed. They'd think it was for back wages." "I told you last Friday, when everything happened, that I had drawn out my balance." "But your bank won't mind your overdrawing for a hundred or two," urged Matilda. "That," said Mrs.
He knows all about the relentless colonel, the lovely Laura, and the 10,000 pounds. 'You told that old beggar all my private affairs? cried Hughie, looking very red and angry. 'My dear boy, said Trevor, smiling, 'that old beggar, as you call him, is one of the richest men in Europe. He could buy all London to-morrow without overdrawing his account.
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