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Approached by fraud he presents a front of granite; he cuts through intrigue with sudden, forceful blows. It is true that the sharp bargainer, the overreaching buyer he worsts and puts to confusion and loss without mercy. But, no less, candor and honor meet with frankness and generous dealing. He is as loyal to a friend as to a purpose.
In fact, he was too much of the frank, freehearted soldier, and had inherited too much of his father's temperament, to make a scheming trapper, or a thrifty bargainer. There was something in the whole appearance of the captain that prepossessed me in his favor.
"I don't sell him under four hundred." "Poor Johnny Busshe! You forget that his wife doles him out his money. You're a hard bargainer, Sir Willoughby." "I mean the price to be prohibitive." "Very well; and 'leafage' is good for hide-and-seek; especially when there is no rogue in ambush. And that's the worst I can say of Laetitia Dale. An exaggerated devotion is the scandal of our sex.
You might do either if you KNEW them to be crooks, but you couldn't if you only suspected it that's the woman. When you get ready, come back; I'll show you proof, because I don't claim to be anything but what I am Wilton Struve, bargainer of some mean ability. When they come to inscribe my headstone I hope they can carve thereon with truth, 'He got value received."
But if thou thinkest I have avowed sentiments less abject, and developed qualities higher than those of the mere bargainer for sordid power, oughtest thou not to rejoice that chance has thrown into thy way one whose intellect and faculties may be made thy tool? If I betray another, that other is my deadly foe. Dost not thou, the lord of armies, betray thine enemy?
As she spoke Metem started, for his quick ears had caught a sound. "O Queen divine," he said in a loud voice, as he led the way to the front of the throne, "you are a hard bargainer! Were there many such, a poor trader could not make a living.
They have learned the use of cards and are reckless gamblers, sometimes staking even the garments on their backs in play. The Eskimo is a close bargainer, and after he has agreed to do you a service for a consideration will as likely as not change his mind at the last moment and leave you in the lurch. At the same time he is in many respects a child.
In a silent, undemonstrative manner of his own McClintock gathered the loose money in and about Vesper; a shrewd bargainer, ungiven to merrymakings; one who knew how to keep dollars at work. It is worthy of note that no after hint of ill dealing attached to these years. In his own bleak way the man dealt justly; not without a prudent liberality as well.
But now the stirrings of life without stirred the life within towards freedom, and I began to plan my way. I had worked hard at my carvings, and had become both a better craftsman and a keener bargainer, and so had managed to accumulate a small store of money.
This voice is heard by incredulous philosophers and former Conventionalists; all Catholics hear it, and out of thirty-five millions of Frenchmen, thirty-two millions are Catholics. VII. The Confiscated Property. Reasons for the concordat. Napoleon's economical organization of the Church institution. A good bargainer. Compromise with the old state of things.
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