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Colonel Doller replied that while the Vesuvius was entirely too big and too conservative a company ever to skirmish for business, he would, purely out of regard for his long friendship for me, call that evening to have a business talk with Alice and me. Later in the day I had a visit from Frederick Jeems, another neighbor engaged in the profession of fire insurance.
She began to read laboriously and slowly from the book, adding explanatory notes in glib tones. "'July 8. Mister Carrul, tenner, 1 doller. Pade. He's the tenor, you know, to Grace Church. He wanted it to sing in at a sacred concert. His was too short or too long. "'July 11. Miss Lyte and Miss Bobson. 'Tablos. 1 doller. Pade. Mr. Carul knows where they live. 'Twaz him as got the job fer me.
Our losses last year were six million three hundred thousand pounds in round numbers, and our premiums were eight million five hundred and sixty-three thousand two hundred and sixty-five pounds and eighteen pence. "The Royal Liliuokalani is a pretty good company, is n't it?" says I. "The Royal Liliuokalani?" repeated Colonel Doller. "The Royal Liliuokalani?
The copper money of Iaua commeth also out of China, and is almost as thicke, great and heauy, as a quarter of a Doller, and somewhat thicker, in the middle hauing a square hole, 2000. of them are worth a Riall of 8. but of these there are not ouer many, they vse to hang them vpon stringes, and pay them without telling, they stand not so narrowly vpon the number, for if they want but 25. or 50. it is nothing.
I 'll speak to Alice about it." "Be careful not to breathe a word of it to anybody else," suggested Colonel Doller in a low, mysterious tone, "and whatever else you do, don't let my partner, Leet, have even so much as an inkling of the fact that we 've had a talk! You understand?" "It shall be kept a profound secret!" said I, with solemn earnestness.
Pade. She got merried by an Episcopal minister, and he furgot his surplus, and that was all she hed hired him fer, so she rented our'n fer him, and Mr. Jimmels, her new husband, took it outen the minister's pay. Somethin' allers goes wrong to her weddin's." "Does she have them often?" interrupted John gravely. "Quite frequent." "'Aug. 3, Mister Vedder, Ticket Seller to the Theayter. 1 doller.
So far as I can see, they toil not, neither do they spin. The chances are, on the other hand, that both Belville Rock and Colonel Doller regard me as the luckiest of lazy dogs, who has but to lie on his back and look at sun, moon, and stars to earn both fame and fortune.
"Exactly," said Colonel Doller, with a genial smile. "Now, as I was about to remark, it is notorious that this property of yours is situate in the very heart of the delectable tract known to the world as the North Shore.
I didn't want no pay from him, cause he give us his money when yours and Miss King's was gone, but he says as how it might bring him luck in gittin' her, so I took a quarter of a dollar. "'July 29. Mister Vergil Washington. Reckter Colered Church. 1 doller. Pade. Some one stole his'n off en the clo'es-line, and he only hed one. "'July 31. Widder Hubbleston, 56 Wilkins St. 1 Doller.
If you know the colonel as I do, you know him to be a gentleman of wealth, of position, and of influence. Moreover, Colonel Doller is a man of large sympathies. He had heard of our recent acquisition and had come to congratulate me. We shook hands warmly.
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