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The weekly subscription was twopence each; and when about fifty-two calls of twopence each had been made, they found that they were able to buy a sack of oatmeal, which they distributed at cost-price amongst the members of the society.

To ease the struggles of the poor, unless it be in sickness or absolute want, I have repeatedly proved to be a cruel kindness." "Then you don't sell to the poor women at cost-price always?" "No only to the soldiers' wives. They have a very hard life of it, poor things!" "That is your custom, then?" "For the last ten years, but I don't let them know it."

Moreover, O my son, I hear that they have married thee, by way of intermediation, to the lady Zubeideh the Lutanist and have imposed on thee a dowry of ten thousand dinars; wherefore I send thee also fifty thousand dinars by thy slave Selim, the bearer of these presents, whereout thou mayest pay the dowry and provide thyself with the rest. When Alaeddin had made an end of reading the letter, he took possession of the goods and turning to the old merchant, said to him, 'O my father-in-law, take the ten thousand dinars, thy daughter's dowry, and take also the loads of goods and dispose of them, and thine be the profit; only return me the cost-price. 'Nay, by Allah, answered he, 'I will take nothing; and as for thy wife's dowry, do thou settle it with her. Then they went in to Zubeideh, after the goods had been brought in, and she said to her father, 'O my father, whose goods are these? 'They belong to thy husband Alaeddin, answered he; 'his father hath sent them to him in place of those of which the Bedouins spoiled him.

The curate woke up in the presence of the unwinged, and saw that the woman had left the shop. "I did let her have the print at cost-price," Mr. Drew went on, laughing merrily. "That was all I could venture on." "Where was the danger?" "Ah, you don't know so well as I do the good of having some difficulty in getting what you need!

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