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"Been spendin' your money at the pastry shops, Charley, again? That's what was the matter with you, I take it." The boy shook his head. "No, Bob. I'm tryin' to save. When I get my week's money I put it away in a bureau drawer, wrapped in six little paper packages with a day of the week on each one. Then I know just how much I've got to live on, and Sundays don't count.
You see, she'd been used to spendin' about six months of the year with Daddy in Washington, three more in flittin' around from one house party to the other, and what was left of the year restin' up down on the big plantation, where they knew all the neighbors for miles around. "But here," says she, "we seem to know hardly anyone.
Why, in one hour, and without spendin' a penny, I could be readin' all seven o' yer books! Yes, yes! "I know," said Johnnie. "I remember. I I was there 'way late last night in a think."
"Hello, Christine!" he cried, "you don't get down here as often as these other girls do; and here I've been spendin' days jist waitin' for a sight of you. I've been jist that lonesome for you, will you think just the same of me if I go to the war?" "I'm sure even the war couldn't make me change my opinion of you, Duke," she answered with twinkling eyes.
I guess they won't want us round a great deal, when they come back." Mrs. Gaylord said, "Well, I never did!" When her husband returned from the parlor, she added, "I suppose some folks'd say it was rather of a strange way of spendin' the Sabbath." "It's a very good way of spending the Sabbath. You don't suppose that any of the people in church are half as happy, do you?
The graveyard is full of unselfish, devoted fathers an' husbands who worked themselves to death for the comfort an' support of their own families, yet spendin' their days on earth tryin' to beat their neighbors in the same game. "It's funny how we're livin'. It's amusin', it is our ethics of Christianity. We've baptised everything but business. We give to the church an' rob the poor.
'Wal! sure it ain't no sin to forget the "miss" of an odd time, I guess, was the large damsel's rejoinder, though without the least spice of sauciness. 'Come, I hain't no time to be spendin' here; and she closed the door after her with a bang which made gentle Mrs. Wynn start.
Once more, Roke grinned broadly. "I ain't seen hide nor hair of Mr. Hade, not since this afternoon," said he. "I been spendin' the evenin' over to Landon's. Landon is a tryin' to sell me his farm. Says the soil on it is so rich that he ships carloads of it up North, to use for fertilizer. Says " "Sato!" broke in Brice. "Can you make him talk?
If you go for to spend a thousand pounds a day, now, it'll just last ten days. If you spend a thousand pounds a year, it'll last ten years. If you spend a thousand pounds in ten years, it'll last a hundred years d'ye see? It all depends on the spendin'. But, then, Mrs Gaff," said the skipper remonstratively, "you mustn't go for to live on the principal, you know."
Great Britain don't make so much show in her pavilions and in showin' off her things; but come to examine it clost, and you'll see, as is generally the case with our Ma Country, the sterling, sound qualities of solid worth. Her immense display of furniture, jewelry, and all objects of art and industry are worth spendin' weeks over, and then you'd want to stay longer.
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