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Clever Ryan, who missed nothing, doubtless suspecting that the faithless editor who had sold out once to him might now be planning to do it again to a higher bidder, had outstripped him. And the Gazette to-morrow would damn him utterly. But Varney's face, as these thoughts came to him, wore a faint, non-committal smile. "That is final, I suppose?" "As death, so far as I am concerned.
Young Dalton Mann, representing the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, raised his hand and snapped his fingers at the auctioneer. "And a hundred thousand!" he shouted. "And a hundred thousand!" Matt Peasley retorted. "And fifty thousand!" Mann flung back at him. Matt Peasley eyed his antagonist belligerently. "That's doing very well for a young fellow," Searles complimented the last bidder.
Gibbons built several of the colored churches in Philadelphia, and in the early forties, during my apprenticeship, he was a bidder for the contract to build the first African Methodist Episcopal brick church of the connection on the present site at Sixth and Lombard streets in Philadelphia.
"My father has learned of our meeting and of how it came about," he quoted. "More bribery," he thought. "The intrigante naturally sold her services to the highest bidder." He recalled the violent haste with which the coach had rolled away from the place of meeting. Had that been due to a fear that Margaret would defeat their plans? All these speculations and regrets were soon put away.
Nothing belonged to her, not even her heart, which was merchandise, a commodity of exchange, turned over to the highest bidder. "Royalty," he mused, "is a political slave-dealer; the slaves are those who wear the crowns." Once inside the palace, he became a man of the world, polished, nonchalant, handsome, and mildly curious.
Is not my blood as good as his? unless, indeed, you are prepared to sell your child to the highest bidder!" "Clara, my dear, I think you had better leave the room," said the countess; "no doubt you have assured Mr. Fitzgerald that you are engaged to his cousin Herbert." "Yes, mamma." "Then he can have no further claim on your attendance, and his vehemence will terrify you."
"Too late didst thou say, oh Taurus Antinor?" said Dea Flavia raising her pencilled eyebrows with a slight expression of scorn, "nay! I had not seen the hammer descend! The girl until then is not sold, and open to the highest bidder. Or am I wrong, O praefect, in thus interpreting the laws of Rome?" "This is an exceptional case, Augusta," he retorted curtly.
In accordance with an order of the United States District Court I am about to sell, at public auction, to the highest bidder, the Mexican Steamship General Carranza, ex-German Steamship Bavarian, to satisfy the following judgments: Mr. J. Augustus Redell " "Cut it out!" roared Matt Peasley. "We've all read the list of creditors, and you're only gumming up the game. Come down to business Jim."
There is also a printer to the state, or state printer, whose business it is to print the journal, bills, reports, and other papers and documents of the two houses of the legislature, and all the laws passed at each session. State printers are either chosen by the legislature, or employed by persons authorized to make contracts for the public printing; or the printing is let to the lowest bidder.
These are, the expediency of your going with the Perseverance, instead of waiting for the other boats, and the propriety of immediately disposing of the two frigates in America" about which frequent reports had arrived, showing that their preparation was in even worse hands than was that of the London vessels "to the highest bidder.
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