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And whether you like me or not, I'll tell you you're not going to have any worries that I can help you ward off." They were emerging into the meadow and Lydia laughed up at him mischievously, "I've always thought I overpaid for those school books. They were fearfully used up. Oh, the speeches have begun," and Billy was hard put to it to keep close to her as she rushed toward the speakers' stand.

The soldiers overpaid, of course, joked, picked up the single-shirted pickaninnies, tossed them, kissed them, and otherwise displayed their content. He ordered his house opened, and the shell windows slid back, revealing his pretty daughters in their best raiment, smiling and bowing.

Placed in control of the exchequer at a later period, he was never accused of robbery or peculation. He was a hard-working, not overpaid, very intelligent public functionary. He was made president of the parliament, or supreme tribunal of Burgundy, and minister of state, and was recognised as one of the ablest jurists and most skilful politicians in the kingdom.

As I returned the baby to his father, he grasped my hand with a pressure that pained me and said, scarce above a whisper: "I will pass your kindness along to some other desolate one some day. It is the only recompense within my power to make you." "What I did has been a genuine pleasure. This little fellow has far overpaid me." "It was a great deal you did for me just at that bitter moment."

"I am heartily glad of it I shall be infinitely overpaid for my journey, by having the pleasure of going back with you." After some conversation upon different subjects, Mr. Vincent, with an air of frankness which was peculiarly pleasing to Belinda, put into her hands an anonymous letter, which he had received the preceding day.

The Town Clerk seventeen pounds per week. He did not wish it to be understood that he thought those gentlemen were overpaid far from it. How could they expect a man like that to exist on a paltry fifteen pounds a week? Why, it was nothing more or less than sweating! Councillor Rushton said that he did not propose to make a long speech it was not necessary.

However, in the end he got his safe-conduct, and all would have been well if, on leaving Gazara, he had not overpaid the bill. Overpay is not the word: he drowned the bill. In a hurry for the road, the innkeeper fretted him. 'Reckoning, landlord! he cried, with one foot in the stirrup: 'how the devil am I to reckon half-way up a horse?

"God forbid, madam!" interrupted the young man, eagerly; "were it to do again, and had I ten times as much rank and wealth, and twenty times as many friends to lose, my losses would be overpaid by the first step you made, as a free princess, upon the soil of your native kingdom."

But he did not push his triumph far, and contented himself with saying, "Thy service of the morning hath already overpaid some negligence in so young a soldier. Hast thou dined?" Quentin, who rather looked to be sent to the Provost Marshal than greeted with such a compliment, answered humbly in the negative.

At length I am almost ashamed to say it but I even brought my mind to give acre for acre of my good corn-land for this barren spot. But then it was a national concern; and when the scene of so celebrated an event became my own, I was overpaid. Whose patriotism would not grow warmer, as old Johnson says, on the plains of Marathon?