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Updated: June 24, 2025
If you kept a careful watch at the corners, you might perhaps see that there were those who were out to meet the flock of geese." "Then it would be better if you came down on them instead of the poor girls," replied Mother Bækken obstinately; "a man like that clerk down at the contractor's, and him at the Stores, and then that fine clerk, that Veyergang up at the factory and his friends."
During the summer months they are found far away in the colonies of their kinsfolk, here and there planted upon the prairie, or out in gangs where new lines of railway are in construction, the joy of the contractor's heart, glad to exchange their steady, uncomplaining toil for the uncertain, spasmodic labour of their English-speaking rivals.
The vulgar, the street boy, have evolved one of those strange sayings that have the air of being fragments from some lost and forgotten chant: "She's the Army Contractor's Only Daughter, Spending it now." Or simply, "Spending it now." She does not pass with impunity, but she passes. She makes her stilted passage across the arena upon which the new womanhood of Western Europe shows its worth.
Their attitude and the girl's expression would, he realized, be significant to a man of the contractor's intelligence. Then Ida rose and faced the elder man. "I think I would better tell you that I have promised to marry Mr. Weston when things are propitious," she said. She looked around at Weston with a smile. "At least, I suppose I have."
The contractor's foreman and his gang quickly drove their iron bars into the earth three feet six inches deep and about three feet apart and loaded the holes as they went. When they had fifty charges in place, the foreman connected up the battery, and when the men were out of the way he raised the rack bar of the battery to its full height and shoved it down hard.
It winks at exorbitant prices calculated on the difficulty of procuring food, and the dangers to which every form of transport is exposed. That is Algiers from the army contractor's point of view. "It is a muddle tempered by the ink-bottle, like every incipient government.
If you can visualize your proposed home thoroughly by it, the expense is well warranted. The architect can be of great service in the matter of contractor's bids. He knows the past performances of those operating in the vicinity where you propose building and can suggest the men or firms whose work is most satisfactory.
Grindot guessed that the contractor's bills, out of which he was to have a share, would be paid, like his commission, in notes; and little Molineux had just filled his mind with doubts as to their payment. The architect was about to become pitiless, after the manner of artists, who are most intolerant of men in their dealings with the middle classes.
"See here, Geoffrey," began the contractor's brother, and one glance at the speaker was sufficient for Thurston, who stopped him. "Are you coming to torment me about that confounded thing? Give it to me at once," he said. He snatched the drawing from Savine's hand, tore it into fragments, and stamped them into the mould. "Now that's done with at last!" he said. "No," was the answer.
This is what Cowper would have stigmatised as "disclaiming all regard For mercy and the common rights of man," and "conducting trade at the sword's point." We then resolved to buy the farm. But the stars in their courses fought against us; we were unsuccessful in our attempt to purchase the freehold. And so the contractor's men came with axes and saws and horses and carts.
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