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"First, as to Smith's Island, I merely want to fulfil the conditions of the sale as prescribed in the published notice. I should have required them of any other purchasers, and must require them of you.... "Now as for the house: The estimates of your bidders are higher than I anticipated, and I think too high by at least $1,000.
Then if Morrison keeps still about making the dear people millionaires by having 'em peddle their puddles to the highest bidders, capital can go ahead and do business in this state. I think his mouth is going to be effectively shut! The right operators are on the job!" Despeaux took a peep at his watch. "Time slipped by while we were waiting to get at Corson.
Richard's chief need would still be money both for the war in France and for further payments on his ransom; and he now imposed a new tax of two shillings on the carucate of land and called out one-third of the feudal force for service abroad. Many resumptions of his former grants were also made, and some of them were sold again to the highest bidders.
Winkle began to dream that he was at a club, and that the members being very refractory, the chairman was obliged to hammer the table a good deal to preserve order; then he had a confused notion of an auction room where there were no bidders, and the auctioneer was buying everything in; and ultimately he began to think it just within the bounds of possibility that somebody might be knocking at the street door.
"Sold to Juana Briones for thirty-five dollars," he said, as his improvised gavel fell on the table before him. "I bid forty!" stormed McTurpin. All eyes turned to him. But Brannan paid him no attention. Someone laughed. "Next! Who bids?" invited the auctioneer. "Twenty-five," began Benito. This time there were other bidders, all of whom Brannan recognized courteously and promptly.
In consequence of this proclamation, two bidders were found, namely, Sulpicia'nus and Did'ius. The former a consular person, prefect of the city, and son-in-law to the late emperor Per'tinax. The latter a consular person likewise, a great lawyer, and the wealthiest man in the city. 20. Sulpicia'nus had rather promises than treasure to bestow.
If no other or better bid is made, this sum is all that the Government will receive on its claim of nearly $13,000,000. The Government has no information as to whether there will be other bidders or a better bid than the minimum amount herein stated.
No hurricane could bend that head, so solid was the neck which supported it. In these battles of the bidders each of its nods meant an additional hundred thousand dollars. There was no one to dispute with him. "Twelve hundred thousand dollars twelve hundred thousand!" said the auctioneer, with that peculiar accent which men of his vocation find most effective.
The rival bidders for custom shrieked with laughter at his wit, the official fled, and I tried in vain wonderful to relate to get the attention of the group and offer them a fresh opportunity for discussion by trying to hire one of them. My note-book furnishes the following: "If anybody wants a merry izvostchik, with a stylish flourishing red beard, I can supply him.
There were several bidders at the sale, and Shott was pushed to the very end of his tether. He managed, however, to outbid them all, though he trembled at his own temerity; and the farm was on the point of being knocked down to him when a lawyer's clerk at the end of the room went £50 better. Shott took a gulp of whisky to steady his nerve and desperately put the price up fifty more.
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