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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.
One anxiety in life the poor man is saved: he knows not the haunting sense of debt. My tailor never dunned me. His principle was half-a-crown down on receipt of order, the balance on the handing over of the goods.
"It would take a rich man to pay your bills. But you haven't told me why you have come home." "I lost my situation, father some meddlesome fellow told my employer that I occasionally played a game of pool, and my tailor came to the store and dunned me; so old Boggs gave me a long lecture and my walking papers, and here I am."
On being dunned by Brigham Young for the tithes already collected, Brannan blandly resigned from the Church, still retaining the assets. With this auspicious beginning, aided by a burly, engaging personality, a coarse, direct manner that appealed to men, and an instinct for the limelight, he went far.
Guy was evidently "packing up" this time, not because he had been "dunned" for half-a-year's board, though that would have been no new item in his well-patched-up experience. He was going away, and I doubt if ever a man felt half so sorry for being "naughty" as Guy Elersley felt on this particular evening.
Macaulay writes to his sisters at home: "The best way of seeing society here is to have very small parties. "I am dunned unmercifully by place-hunters. The oddest application that I have received is from that rascal , who is somewhere in the interior.
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?"
White till he was paid himself that it could not be expected he should advance money for any body out of his own pocket that he begged he might not be pestered and dunned any more, for that he really had not leisure to think of such trifles.
And then he turned up in Rome, a sickly youth of eighteen; demanded his moneys from Anthony; dunned him till he got some fragment of them; then borrowed largely on his own securities, and proceeded to pay what prodigal Anthony had been much too thrifty to think of doing Ceasar's debts. Rome was surprised.
His creditors dunned him relentlessly: one final reprieve had been granted him, but that at an end, if he could not meet their demands, it was all up with his career and reputation. One morning in the beginning of February 1660, Trumeau called to see his cousin.
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