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He charged cint per cint whin Casey, th' plumber, buried his wife an' borrid money f'r th' funeral expenses. I see him wanst chasin' th' agent iv th' Saint Vincent de Pauls down th' road f'r darin' to ask him f'r a contribution. To look at his har-rsh red face, as he sat at his window markin' up his accounts, ye'd know he was hard in th' bit an' heavy in th' hand.
"Sure it was only an hour ago while I was at me woorrck in the kitchen, and Jim rushes in and sez: 'For the love of God, if iver ye want to see a blessed cint of the money ye put in the masther's bank, off wid ye now and draw it out for there's a run on the bank!" "It was an infamous lie," said Cissy fiercely. "Sure, miss, how was oi to know?
"Nobody offered to pay for the drinks, and I haven't a cint to pay for any mesilf." "And you won't get a cent from me; you must earn it by taking out gold. If you succeed it'll be yours, and you can do as you please with it." Tim removed his cap and scratched his head. "I've gone a good many wakes without it, and I feel so much better that I'm thinking of keeping up the good work."
What wud the loikes of ye work for Misther Hicks for?" Swanson's impassive face remained imperturbable; he stroked the moustaches dangling over the corners of his dejected mouth. "Two tollar saxty cint." Mike glared at him, and then at the girl, his own lips puckering. "Bedad, Oi belave the poor cr'ater do n't know anny betther.
The Jook iv Marlburrow, whin he come out iv th' academy where they had him, he hadn't a cint to his name. Ne'er a wan. "They ain't manny jobs f'r a young jook. Th' thrade is limited; an' this here la-ad wint round night an' day lookin' f'r a sign, 'Wanted, a young jook, r-ready an' willin' to do light family jookin', an' no sign did he see.
Here's to the learned, livin' skeleton from Boston! Five per cint. man and ninety-five per cint. crank!" The next morning the group of painters all except Joplin, who was doing a head in "smears" behind the Groote Kerk a mile away were at work in the old shipyard across the Maas at Papendrecht.
'How did ye come out? says I. 'I haven't a cint lift but me renommynation f'r th' ligislachure, says he. 'Well, says I, 'Cassidy, I says, 'ye've been up again what th' pa-apers call hawt finance, I says. 'What th' divvle's that? says he. 'Well, says I, 'it ain't burglary, an' it ain't obtainin' money be false pretinses, an' it ain't manslaughter, I says.
"'Lord love ye, Miss dear, it's tuk up and sint to the Island for tree months she is; for a drunken ould crayther is Biddy Ryan, and niver a cint but goes for whiskey, more shame to her, wid a fine bye av her own ready to kape her daycint. "Then I WAS discouraged, and went home to fold my hands, and see what fate would send me, my own efforts being such failures."
'Snowplows common was up two pints this mornin' on th' rumor that th' prisidint was undher ar-rest. 'They was a gr-reat bulge in Lobster preferred caused be th' report that instead iv declarin' a dividend iv three hundhred per cint. th' comp'ny was preparin' to imprison th' boord iv directors. 'We sthrongly ricommind th' purchase iv Con and Founder.
"'Money, sez they, fur thayer was talk all round thin that Oi had sold me cow fur $25. "'Sure, thin, Oi'll get up an' help ye, sez Oi, fur divil a cint hev Oi been able to set me eyes on sense apple harvest." "We want $25, or we'll kill ye.
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