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Let us have your story now." "Well, Harry, in the first place, do you know this critter I call Lightfoot?" "No; at least I don't now remember to have noticed the animal before." "Well, it is the colt old skin-flint Turner cheated me out of, last year."
A brig is only allowed two lieutenants. The master was a rough, kind-hearted, intelligent young man, always in good-humour. The surgeon and purser completed our mess; they were men of no character at all, except, perhaps, that the surgeon was too much of a courtier, and the purser too much of a skin-flint; but pursers are, generally speaking, more sinned against than sinning.
What difference did it make anyhow? He hadn't stolen anything. He couldn't let a dog choke to death before his eyes. What did Old Man Thornycroft care about a dog, anyhow, the hard-hearted old skin-flint! He remembered the trouble his mother had had when his father died and Old Man Thornycroft pushed her for a note he had given.
Some skin-flint, who loved better the reflecting surface of a dollar, or a bright cent, in which he could see his own brazen face; who regarded even the wild ducks which settled in it as trespassers; his fingers grown into crooked and bony talons from the long habit of grasping harpy-like; so it is not named for me.
You'll make yourself happier and others too. And all he had to do was to write a cheque, and send the poor girl off for a holiday! "The hardest part of it was that the money half-belonged to us already. The old skin-flint only had it for life, in trust for us and the others.
She cried all over my new dress suit the other night." Phil's heart was one gigantic ache. The thought of Carlotta in tears was almost unbearable. Carlotta his Carlotta was all sunshine and laughter. "It was like this," went on Carlotta's parent. "Her aunt told me she was going to marry young Lathrop old skin-flint tea-and-coffee Lathrop's son. I couldn't quite stomach it.
Everything in it had grown grimacing and alien, and each strange insistent object seemed craning forward from its place to hear him. "It was I who put the stuff in the melon," he said. "And I don't want you to think I'm sorry for it. This isn't 'remorse, understand. I'm glad the old skin-flint is dead I'm glad the others have their money. But mine's no use to me any more.
When the old lady took her off at the bottom, with a good motherly hug, I found myself huggin' my rifle like a fool, but whether I thought it was the ladder, or Kitty, I ain't clear about. 'Good, thinks I; 'what more do you want? "A snug little property wouldn't a ben bad, I reckon. Well she had it, old skin-flint, though I didn't know or care about it then.
You'll make yourself happier and others too. And all he had to do was to write a cheque, and send the poor girl off for a holiday! "The hardest part of it was that the money half-belonged to us already. The old skin-flint only had it for life, in trust for us and the others.
Gray, here, would have put things right long ago; but he's been kept that tight by the old skin-flint what's just died. They do say as now the property have got into better hands; but " "Well, well, Mrs. Blobs" interposed the agent; "we shall soon see a change now I hope." "Yes," assented "Cobbler" Horn, "we'll have that is, I'm sure Mr. Gray will soon make you snug, ma'am."
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