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They shall think they are only carrying out a wager." "And I," answered D'Harmental, "will show you that I do not haggle with my friends. Here are two thousand crowns in gold, take them on account if we succeed; if we fail we will cry quits."

I did not give myself much trouble on this subject: I had well recompensed the good offices of the countess: I had ample proof that in serving me she had acted on the impulse of self-interest: we were quits, I thought, and I saw no reason why I should remain isolated just to serve her pleasure.

Whichever you dislike the most, you will be sure to get. Now I understand what she meant when she asked me before dinner if I would praise the shad," and she joined her father's laugh; it was so contagious. "Well, I will be compelled to cry quits, sure enough," said Plaisted; "but I never suspected that she could make such comical verses." "Oh! that is second-hand poetry, Plaisted.

A half-dozen notes of hand were instantly produced and thrown upon the table, and the holder of each was paid off in turn; the last of whom drew from Elwood nearly every dollar he had in his possession. "There, gentlemen," he exclaimed, with a sort of desperate calmness, "in this line of deal, at least, my accounts are all squared. I am quits with you all."

The men behind the deal were getting tired and would drop the whole business. They had been more than fair in the chances they had offered for compromise.... There was a little pause in the message then the voice went on, "I am one of your own men, Harris, inside the works a man that you killed in the way of business. I agreed to give you the message for quits. Good-bye."

To hide the instant's confusion she turned her head away, using a hand to gather in her hair, which the wind was lifting lightly. "That wouldn't quite make us quits," she rejoined; "your life is important, mine isn't. You" she nodded towards the Narcissus "you command men." "So dost thou," he answered, persisting in the endearing pronoun. He meant it to be endearing.

"Well, gentlemen," said Captain Oughton, "what is the matter?" "The matter!" replied Ansell. "Why, my flesh creeps all over me. Of all the thoughtless acts, Captain Oughton, it really beats " "Cock-fighting," interrupted the captain, with a loud laugh. "Now we are quits."

All he can do is hire 'em and fire 'em, and even that's turnin' his hair gray. It'll all work out one way or another, I expect." It does, too. But not exactly along the lines I was looking for it to develop. First off, Lester quits the Corrugated. As he'd been on the same job for more'n six years, and gettin' worse at it right along, the blow didn't quite put us out of business.

The notion had been entertained that the poles, as they are called, of the decomposing cell, or in other words the surfaces by which the current enters and quits the liquid, exercised electric attractions upon the constituents of the liquid and tore them asunder. Faraday combats this notion with extreme vigour.