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Brown, you have got the most beautiful wife in the world, and I hope you value her properly." It was this daring quality in his hostess Josiah appreciated so much. "She's not afraid to say anything, 'pon my soul," he said to himself. "I rather think I know my own possession's value!" he answered aloud, with a pompous puffing out of chest, and a cough to clear the throat.
"Ask me, then, 'Of what use to possess it, when one makes no use of what one possesses? I, a millionaire, did I lead the life of a millionaire? No: I lived like a poor beggar. I loved, then, to possess, for possession's sake." "But once more I ask you, of what use is it when one dies?" "To the possessing!
I had but come back in time a day later, and he would have sat here and seen me in the Pit below before giving way. Possession's nine points were with me; and here I sat and faced him; and here he stormed, and would do this and should do that; and I went on with my work. Then he would buy my Colisyum, and I wouldn't sell it for all his puffball lordship might offer.
And looking up at the houses he thought: 'After all, we're the backbone of the country. They won't upset us easily. Possession's nine points of the law.
And looking up at the houses he thought: 'After all, we're the backbone of the country. They won't upset us easily. Possession's nine points of the law.
Possession's good in law, I'll admit; and I contind that's jest what the tenants has. I contind that the tenants has this very, precise, lawful possession, at this blessed moment, only the law won't let 'em enj'y it. It's all owing to that accursed law, that the tenant can't set up a title ag'in his landlord.
Benson, still covering him, advanced and laid hold of his collar. Then in burst Quincy, also with drawn revolver. "Got him, have you? Good enough! I'll take him." "Oh, no, you won't," answered Benson. "He's mine. Possession's nine points of the law, you say." With his hand still on Rogers's collar he covered Quincy with his weapon.
"But I have," roared out the 'squire, at length recovering himself, seeing his opponent had quitted the field. "Stop a minute." John paused at the door. "Tell Ursula March she may marry you, or any other vagabond she pleases it's no business of mine. But her fortune is my business, and it's in my hands too. Might's right, and possession's nine-tenths of the law.
Possession's nine points in law, and Lancaster's up at Bismarck nailing the tenth." If the storekeeper's blunt assertions were of any particular interest to the other, he failed to show it. He occupied himself with finding a cigar, cutting it carefully, and lighting it at the stove. Then he turned about to Colonel Cummings, his glance, as it travelled, utterly ignoring Lounsbury.
I had but come back in time a day later, and he would have sat here and seen me in the Pit below before giving way. Possession's nine points were with me; and here I sat and faced him; and here he stormed, and would do this and should do that; and I went on with my work. Then he would buy my Colisyum, and I wouldn't sell it for all his puffball lordship might offer.
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