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Roland had clasped his red account-book, restored it to his pocket, wiped his pen carefully, and now watched me from under his great beetle-brows. Suddenly he rose, and stamping on the hearth with his cork leg, exclaimed, "Look up from those cursed books, brother Austin! What is there in your son's face? Construe that, if you can!" And my father pushed aside his books and rose hastily.
First, as respects order and cleanliness in everything belonging to her: it would be impossible to imagine a more proper arrangement than the one she made of each article, both in her wardrobe, her writing- table, her work-box, and her account-book.
In Washington's earliest account-book there is an item when he was sixteen years old, "To cash pd ye Musick Master for my Entrance 3/9."
She got out her jacket and hat, took her pencil, account-book, and kitchen pad, and went out to see what was in the refrigerator. Here she had to stop, for Bridget had gone away in such a hurry she had quite forgotten to wash this out and arrange it properly, so on went the gingham apron again, and out came all the things from the box.
The unproductive labourers may save part of their wages, and invest them in a productive employment. It is not unusual to speak of what is paid in wages to a labourer as being thereby consumed, as if all profit and loss to the nation were to be seen in the capitalist's account-book.
One of the true College stories runs to the effect that Warden Griffiths used the account-book to refute the contention of a great historian of British architecture that Wadham College must have been built at different dates, because its architecture is of different styles an improper combination of Jacobean and Perpendicular.
"You must imitate what I do. For example, suppose I earn a year of indulgence: I set it down in my account-book and say, 'Most Blessed Father and Lord St.
Mr Doubleday returned directly with a large account-book, which he deposited on the table before the junior partner. Mr Barnacle pushed it towards me. "I want a list made out of all the goods sent to Mr Walker, of Bombay, since the beginning of the year. Let me see you make it out."
"Yes, Trude was to have twenty thalers a year, and we are owing her many years' wages. You know, wife, I have always kept an account-book for the debts, and only a few days ago Oh! oh! the pain! Trude, help me cover up the foot warmer! we reckoned it up a few days ago, and we owe Trude one hundred and thirty thalers."
"Only sixpence?" said Erebus in a tone of the liveliest surprise. "Well, you see, there are the bicycles. I don't think we can make it more than sixpence. And I tell you what: we shall have to keep accounts. I'll buy an account-book. You're very good at arithmetic you'll like keeping accounts," said the Terror suavely.
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