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He also educated her cousin, the young man who is to be groomsman, and gave him a handsome setting out in life; but when the father died there was nothing left all his property mortgaged or something at any rate Elizabeth never got a cent, and her cousin would have been poor as a church-mouse but for the money which had set him up in a splendid business.
Forester at my old post down by the big pin-oak at the creek side; and you stand there, Frank, still as a church-mouse. It's ten to one, if some of those fellows don't shoot him first, that he'll break covert close by you, and run the meadows for a mile or two, up to the turnpike road, and over it to Rocky hill that black knob yonder, covered with pine and hemlock.
"Tantaine," resumed Mascarin, "is the best and kindest fellow in the world, but he is not quite right in the upper story. He was a wealthy man once, but his liberality was his ruin. He is as poor as a church-mouse now, but he is as anxious as ever to be charitable.
When I see the story I may take the other side and urge you to go on, even if you are as poor as a church-mouse, and have to be under the harrow of poverty for years." "Then you have some curiosity to see the story?" "You know I have. And I know I shall like it. It isn't that, Phil; it is what is the happiest career for you." "Well, I will send it to you when it comes back."
"Adam, his brother, could do naught for him: he is poor as a church-mouse, poorer even than I but nathless," he added with a violent oath, "it strikes everyone as madness that I should keep a secretary when I scarce can pay the wages of a serving maid." "'Twere better you paid your servants' wages, Marmaduke," she retorted harshly, "they were insolent to me just now.
Mordaunt's father was an English gentleman of some family, I have always heard, though he was as poor as a church-mouse, when he married one of our Dutch heiresses; and as for Herman Mordaunt himself, he proved he had not lost the instinct by marrying another, though she did not happen to be Dutch.
Have you tried all professions, without succeeding in one? have you invented a gun which burst? and, above all, are you as poor as a church-mouse? What! is it possible that you possess none of these fine advantages, and yet are audacious enough to ask me for my daughter's hand?" M. Moriaz ended this harangue as the Samaden mail-coach passed.
He says in his heart of pride, beneath his stiff neck, that it is all right; that Watts, poor little church-mouse of a Watts, whom he could buy five times over with the money that has dropped into the Barclay till since he entered the shop that Watts should have his due; but only only only that is it only, but only !
Notwithstanding the fact that the young man had just taken unto himself a wife, and was as poor as a church-mouse, the door and the cupboard in his modest little flat were opened cheerfully to the delinquent Uncle Joe, and be it said to the latter's discredit and shame he proceeded to impose upon the generosity of his nephew in a manner that should have earned him a booting into the street.
Is it because he's richer than me? 'Even if he were poorer than a church-mouse I'd marry him. 'Bah! 'You don't believe me? 'All right. Finally I got sore and I told her for all I cared she might marry a dog, and that she was a cheap street-walker.... It's all over now. Well, so much the better. Now we know just where we stand. Where shall we go? To Las Injurias again?" "What for?"
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