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The word "Save" which had dropped out of the British vocabulary suddenly came back. It was dramatised in every possible way and it became part of a new gospel that vied with the war spirit itself. The National War Savings Committee became a centre of activity whose long arms reached to every point of the Kingdom.
These became jumbled up with late Gothic and Renaissance work. Jean de Secondat, who purchased the old fortified manor-house out of his savings as maitre d'hotel to Antoine de Bourbon and Jeanne d'Albret, was probably responsible for most of the sixteenth-century work that one now sees.
From the moment these Associations sprang into existence, the whole War Savings Certificates project began to boom and it has boomed ever since.
As I was supposed to be very rich, the ambassador from Naples came to see me and asked a sum which far exceeded my possessions. I had left France with eighty louis in my pocket, and a portion of my savings I had since lost through the Bank of Venice.
He must have hooked his missus's stocking with all the savings gained at very hard work. It wasn't clean money they had used, but money that could infect them with any manner of vile diseases. Well, anyway, they hadn't thought to invite her for a drink. If you wanted to drink by yourself, you could croak by yourself.
"I can, then, and my family is just as large as yours, and my wages no higher." "If you say so, I am bound to believe you, but I must own myself unable to see how you do it. Pray, how much do you save?" "I have saved about seventy-five dollars a year for the last two years." "You have!" in surprise. "Yes, and I have it all snugly in the Savings' Bank." "Bless me!
But the hoard was amassed so slowly; now old Gawtrey was attacked by illness; now there was some little difficulty in the rent; now some fluctuation in the price of work; and now, and more often than all, some demand on her charity, which interfered with, and drew from, the pious savings.
In January, 1821, he instituted the South Carolina Academy of Fine Arts, which is now extinct. After four years of life in Charleston he returned to the north with savings to the amount of L600, and settled in New York.
Here and there, too, some small investor, some shopman with "savings," had delivered his soul to the local builders and built himself a house, and there it stood, ill-designed, mean-looking, isolated, ill-placed on a cheaply fenced plot, athwart which his domestic washing fluttered in the breeze amidst a bleak desolation of enterprise.
Pinkerton is a milliner, and her husband is her clerk and errand boy. She has considerable business capacity, and makes enough to support the family comfortably, besides adding something annually to the fund in the savings bank. The relationship to the deceased is on the side of the husband, who is a cousin. This relationship has given rise to great expectations on the part of Mrs.
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