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But those who had confidently expected to see her squander it were disappointed: on the contrary, it was presently whispered that she was exceeding penurious. That admirable woman Mrs. Stiver of Red Dog, who accompanied her to San Francisco to assist her in making purchases, was loud in her indignation. "She cares more for two bits than I do for five dollars.
"But dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of." "If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality."
I know not whether those who shall hear of this debate, may not impute such reflections rather to cruelty than negligence, and imagine that those who squander the treasure of the nation take pleasure in reproaching that poverty which their counsels produce, and indulge their own vanity by contemplating the calamities from which they are themselves secure, and to which they are indebted for opportunities of increasing their own fortunes, and gratifying their ambition.
I failed because the mounting fortunes of the Little Clean-Up, my share of which was as yet merely giving me money to squander on the extravagant whims and caprices of Agatha Geddis, were making all three of us, Gifford, Barrett and myself, marked men. One incident of the marking timed itself in one of my trips to Denver.
If you wish to squander it that way" He stopped abruptly, warned by the flash of her eye. "I had not used that word in this connection," she said coldly, "but you may if you choose." "Well," he returned, in some desperation, "we'll drop the word 'squander, then, if it is offensive to you. But you must allow you are spending a great deal, mustn't you?
His father used to mend her shoes for her when she was a student. Cuzak questioned me about her looks, her popularity, her voice; but he particularly wanted to know whether I had noticed her tiny feet, and whether I thought she had saved much money. She was extravagant, of course, but he hoped she would n’t squander everything, and have nothing left when she was old.
Rafael was at liberty to squander it, scatter it to the four winds of heaven; but don Andrés wasn't talking to a child, he was talking to a man with a heart: so he begged him, as his childhood preceptor, as his oldest friend, to consider the sacrifices his mother had been making the privations she had imposed upon herself, going without new clothes, quarreling with her help over a céntimo, despite all her airs as a grand lady, depriving herself of all the dainties and comforts that are so pleasant to old age all that her son, her señor hijo, might waste it in gay living on a woman!
'But dost thou love life, then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of, as Poor Richard says. How much more than is necessary do we spend in sleep, forgetting that 'The sleeping fox catches no poultry, and that 'There will be sleeping enough in the grave, as Poor Richard says.
I feel so glad that he has no extravagant tastes, but inherits the careful and economical habits of his mother and myself. I am sure he will never waste or squander the little property which I hope to leave him. "I don't believe he will," thought Frank, "for he is about as mean as his mother, and that is saying a good deal."
My devoted landlady is preparing a repast which millionaires would squander their fortunes for. Her sister happens to live in Devonshire. . . ." "So you were expecting me?" she cried, turning round and facing him. "I was," answered Vane. She laughed shortly. "Well what do you think of dyspepsia and Vichy?" "I've been trying not to think of him ever since lunch," he answered grimly.
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