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"Before Bill left last night he made out a bond for ninety thousand dollars just what your cattle are worth at the market price. If there's any damages comin' to you you'll get them out of that." "It's a frame-up," growled Carter, at Sanderson's side. "It proves itself. This guy, Lester, makes out a bond before we're within two days' drive of his bailiwick.
For one "clubman" i.e., bagman or suburban vestryman who invades the women's shops, engages the affection of some innocent miss, lures her into infamy and then sells her to the Italians, there are one thousand who never get any further than asking the price of cologne water and discharging a few furtive winks.
'Poz hagel, blitzen, and donner! I I doubt you say true. 'Not, said Glossin, perceiving he had made the desired impression, 'not that I am against being civil'; and he slid into Hatteraick's passive hand a bank-note of some value. 'Is this all? said the smuggler. 'You had the price of half a cargo for winking at our job, and made us do your business too.
It changed hands for large sums during the painter's lifetime, and is now in the Quincy A. Shaw collection, Boston, Mass. The Woman Sewing by Lamplight, painted in 1872, and sold in 1873 for 38,500 francs, the highest price at that time ever paid for one of Millet's works. The Shepherdess, painted in 1862, and exhibited at the Salon of 1864, also again at the Exposition Universelle of 1867.
I tell you I have lain awake all last night, fitting matters one into the other. I did not hear about Padley till last night, and it gave me all that I needed. I tell you Topcliffe hath cast his foul eyes on Padley and coveted it; and he hath demanded it as a price for Mr. Thomas' liberty. I do not know what else he hath promised, but I will stake my fortune that Padley is part of it.
"A promising career cut short and a life ruined by a moment's failure of nerve. The price paid for it was a heavy one. Still, I found the matter difficult to understand, because, so far as I could tell, there was nothing in Blake's character that made such a failure possible. Then it's known that personal courage was always a characteristic of your family." "His mother was my sister.
This jewel a masterpiece by one of the famous Greek engravers of heathen antiquity had been given him in Constantinople in exchange for a team of four horses to which his greatest friend there had taken a fancy. It was in fact of greater price than half a dozen fine horses.
Quoth the farmer: "I should be very sorry for you to have had to come here for nothing, perhaps we may yet come to terms." "Will you sell it? 'Yes' or 'No," said the young man re-seating himself. "If you don't mind giving me my price." "What is your price?" "Land is very dear. This piece is situated quite close to town, it ought to fetch top price. There's two and a half vergées to that field.
The army set out in pursuit of Price, but I was left at Springfield to gather supplies from the surrounding country, by the same means that had been used at Lebanon, and send them forward. To succeed in this useful and necessary duty required much hard work.
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