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And is it her fault if her capacity in the way of miscellaneous refreshments partakes of the nature of the miraculous somewhat to the inconvenience of Adolphe, who has overspent his allowance? But I am writing of a world that has vanished as completely as the lost Pleiad. The Quartier Latin of my time is no more. The Chaumière is no more. The grisette is fast dying out.
In short your patrimony is not merely exhausted but overspent. That, however, is not the most wonderful part of my recital.” “How dare you pry into my secrets?” “Be appeased, dear Athenian; it is much more interesting to know you deny nothing of all I say.
The partition of this rich booty raised a quarrel among them; and, while their attention was thus engaged, she took the opportunity of making her escape with her son into the thickest of the forest, where she wandered for some time, overspent with hunger and fatigue and sunk with terror and affliction.
"Tis true, 'said Peter, I'm alive: I keep my station in the world: Once in the week I just contrive To get my whiskers oiled and curled. But my assets are very low: My little income's overspent: To trench on capital, you know, Is always inconvenient! 'But pay your debts! cried honest Paul. 'My gentle Peter, pay your debts!
His attitude had the unconsidered and violent prostration of an overspent dog. The beaten animal in him was expressed in every detail of that posture. It showed even in his white, drawn eyelids, and in the falling of a finger. All his face was very sad. It appealed for mercy as the undefended face of sleep always appeals; it was so helpless, so exposed, so simple.
The sun now hung low in the sky. Allan knew that he must have been asleep for at least two hours. He knew, too, that he should rise and return to the castle, since the hour was already late and his time overspent. Yet did the monk's eyes hold him to the spot. Nor was the thing that held him there fear; rather could it be described as the feeling one has before a devout, sacred and holy presence.
"Well," he said as they parted, shaking Arthur's hand to the end of his speech, "I like to see a baby resemble its father, and that's what this 'n 's a-tryin' to do, jest 's hard 's she can." So went matters for a time, and then, while the babe began to fill out and lengthen out, Isabel showed herself daily more and more overspent. The physician reappeared, and spoke plainly:
As he gave his ecstasy utterance it grew; he brandished the weapon like a Bedouin, dug the rowels into his overspent beast and curbed him back to his haunches, fisted him about the ears, gnashed with the pain of his own blows, and howled, and stood up in the stirrups and cursed again.
"However, I'm going into accounts with you presently, and then you'll know everything." "Overspent yourself?" he smiled complacently, with the knowledge of that thousand pounds backing him. "Want money to go on with?" She shook her head. "I don't want anything, thanks." The thought was to her like a bulwark; it was a thought which thousands of wives would have loved to possess.
His eyes fell before her clear honest gaze. His flush deepened. He hung his head, biting his twisted lip. After several moments he began to speak in a hesitating broken murmur: "I've always been wild. But I graduated from Tech. not at the foot of my class. My father always busy piling up millions never a word or thought for me, except when I overspent my allowance. I was in a fast set.
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