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They abound, nevertheless, and many of them are perfectly new finds, like Mr. Tristram in "The American," the bill-paying father in the "Pension Beaurepas," the anxiously Europeanizing mother in the same story, the amusing little Madame de Belgarde, Henrietta Stackpole, and even Newman himself. But though Mr.
"Not bad," Oliver said. "I'm in love." "Oh, no!" "It's complicated," Oliver said. "Remember Francesca?" "Big trouble." "Yeah, I guess. She's still with her husband, but maybe not for long. He's a jerk." "A bill-paying jerk." "He's not right for her." "And you are?" Mark set his pint on the bar. "I am or could be if she wanted." "So what are you going to do, put your life on hold?"
I could never tolerate credit; I was like my aunt in that. Therefore, I must go home and settle the account in some way. I knew not how; I knew only that the thing must be done. Diaz had nothing to do with that; it was not his affair, and I should have resented his interference. Ah! when I was in the bill-paying mood, how hard I could be, how stony, how blind!
Bill-paying and growing gray hairs over results belong to his principals. It is his to guide the risk, to be the Apotheosis of Front, the three-tailed Bashaw of Bluff, the Essential Oil of Razzle-Dazzle. We sat at luncheon, and Sully Magoon told me. I asked for particulars. "My old friend Denver Galloway was a born manager," said Sully.
It would cost a hundred dollars, and the hospital expenses would be at least as much; which meant that, with the bill-paying that had already taken place, their money would all be gone at the outset! But Thyrsis did not waste any time in lamenting the inevitable.
There was a little backwardness in the bill-paying of the couple; but in justice to them it must be added that sooner or later all owings were paid. At the chapel-of-ease attended by the troops there arose above the edge of the pulpit one Sunday an unknown face. This was the face of a new curate. He placed upon the desk, not the familiar sermon book, but merely a Bible.
He sent off a telegram to Corydon to tell her of the victory, and a letter to Darrell, saying that he need send no more money that the path was clear before his feet at last! Section 7. This marked a new stage in the family's financial progress; and as usual it was signalized by a grand debauch in bill-paying.
"I know," smiled Blount; "the bill-paying is summed up in some railroad man's clever phrase, 'all the tariff the traffic will stand. I can remember one year when my father rose up in his wrath and drove his beef cattle one hundred and fifty miles across the Transcontinental tracks to the Overland Central." "That was in the old days," protested Gantry, who was loyal to his salt.
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