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Updated: May 24, 2025
To those persons who can't live by printing papers we would say, in the language of the profligate boarder when dunned for his bill, being told at the same time by the keeper of the house that he couldn't board people for nothing, "Then sell out to somebody who can!" In other words, fly from a business which don't remunerate.
I don't believe my Mongol can pass a single man he knows without being in danger of being dunned for some hopeless debt or other. And yet his debt does not seem to distress him. He is most distressed because people will not lend him more money. 'The last of the chiefs was rather rich. Of course I did not.
My doors were blocked up with creditors and I was without cease importuned for payment by claimants, who dunned me in crowds, till I was at my wits' end what to do. Quoth I, "Who can brook their pride and put up with their arrogance?" And he answered, "Thou must put up with it, for the sake of amending thy case."
Will you find him a place in the Stamp Office?" "With pleasure." "No, now I think of it, the man knows my ways: I must keep him. But my old wine-merchant civil man, never dunned is a bankrupt. I am under great obligations to him, and he has a very pretty daughter. Do you think you could thrust him into some small place in the Colonies, or make him a King's Messenger, or something of the sort?"
"Oh, John, don't say such hard things as that of me!" "But I do say them. You'll make me swear among you some day that I will never see Lily Dale again. As it is, I wish I never had seen her, simply because I am so dunned about it." In all of which I think that Johnny was manifestly wrong. When the humour was on him he was fond enough of talking about Lily Dale.
In the days I write of, the travelled were of another genus, and you might dine at Very's or have your loge at "Les Italiens," without being dunned by your tailor at the one, or confronted with your washer-woman at the other.
It seemed to Matt he had scarcely acknowledged the receipt of that check before he had to give Cappy Ricks another nine thousand dollars! Morrow & Company were late again on the third month, but this time they did not wait to be dunned.
I can stand to be dunned once in awhile, but I don't like to be frowned at. Did he say anything about the money I owe him?" "Well," said Lyman, leaning back in his chair, "the subject was mentioned." "What, the old skinflint! Did he blurt it out before everybody?" "No. He talked to me privately." "Well, I am glad he had that much consideration. But why did he want to speak of it at all?
The seer got the letter, but he never answered it. Kant, however, prints one or two examples of Swedenborg's successes. Madame Harteville, widow of the Dutch envoy in Stockholm, was dunned by a silversmith for a debt of her late husband's. She believed that it had been paid, but could not find the receipt. She therefore asked Swedenborg to use his renowned gifts.
You will oblige us by letting us have your check, won't you?" Benson spoke as though he had not a doubt of immediate settlement. Yet his tone and his manner were such as not to give the least offense to the man who was being "dunned." "Why, this er is rather a late time in the day to collect bills," hinted Mr. Forrester, in an uncertain voice.
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