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The terror was imaginary, for not the least remarkable feature in these transactions was that neither insult nor injury was offered to man or woman, and that not a farthing's value of the immense amount of property was appropriated. Similar scenes were enacted in all the other provinces, with the exception of Limburg, Luxemburg, and Namur.
She despised water-colour art; her conception of a picture was a vast domain of oily brown by an Old Master. I like my art unadorned: thought and skill, and the other strange quality that is added thereto, to make things beautiful and nothing more. A farthing's worth of paint and paper, and, behold! a thing of beauty! as they do in Japan.
I got a sloop and went down the river, and, sure enough, I found the vessel newly refloated, and the captain, an old New Hampshire fellow, in a great taking. Piracy there had been, but of a queer kind, for not a farthing's worth had been touched except my packet of gold.
'Couple, said Thornton, coldly, as he replaced the letter in his pocket, 'couple these words with the evidence already against you, and I would not buy your life at a farthing's value.
Yet it was nine years ago, long before the school at Nenana was started, that this Indian boy and girl had been under Miss Farthing's teaching at Circle City.
The weighing of gold, in particular, is an operation of some nicety In the coarser metals, indeed, where a small error would be of little consequence, less accuracy would, no doubt, be necessary. Yet we should find it excessively troublesome if every time a poor man had occasion either to buy or sell a farthing's worth of goods, he was obliged to weigh the farthing.
"Wouldn't hear of it; nothin' to me; only too happy to oblige you," declared Devitt, showing by his manner that he considered the interview at an end. As she walked towards the door, he said: "By the way, where are you stayin'?" "At Mrs Farthing's; it's quite near here." "Quite two miles from us," remarked Devitt, as if more pleased than otherwise at the information. "Quite," answered Mavis.
I spent my two-pence in bread and cheese, and paid one penny for my lodging, and again I started the next morning, but I was very unsuccessful; nobody appeared to want matches that day, and after walking from seven o'clock in the morning, to past seven in the evening, without selling one farthing's worth, I sat down at the porch of a chapel, quite tired and worn out.
But you are nominally responsible for the whole, and any case of insubordination or idleness during afternoon school will be reported to you by the master in charge, and you must deal with it as though you had been in charge at the time. "Now come and make Mrs Farthing's acquaintance."
"You stole her. Her life's in your hands; she's only a child!" A quiver passed over his face; it showed that he was suffering. "Give it up!" I urged. "My last farthing's in it," he sighed; "the chance of a lifetime." He looked at me doubtfully, appealingly, as if for the first time in his life he had been given a glimpse of that dilemma of consequences which his nature never recognises.
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