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Updated: May 3, 2025
There are two thousand francs' worth of pearls in the case. 'Il faut fixer la somme, said the man, leaving the watch untouched. 'That lies with you. 'Good. You know that I have the right to ask a high price. 'Certainly. Name it. 'It's only on the supposition of a large sum that I will so much as consider your proposal. Songez donc, that it's a MURDER you ask of me. 'The price the price?
Ellesmere had uot relinquished hold of Fixer. All this happened, as such accidents do, in almost less time than it takes to describe them. And now came another dripping creature splashing into the boat; for Master Walter, who can swim like a duck, had plunged in directly he saw the accident, but too late to be of any assistance.
"Elle était d'une figure aimable," says Grimm, "elle est bonne femme; elle est riche; elle pouvait fixer chez elle les gens d'esprit et de bonne compagnie, sans les mettre dans l'embarras de lui parler avec peu de sincérité de sa Colombiade ou de ses Amazones." The description begins:
"Oh, what have we stepped into?" another groaned, holding his forehead in a way of despair. "You mean what have we been drawn into!" said another. "Oh, that it should come to this!" "What have we done? What have we done?" sighed still another. Only the fixer remained silent. His eyes stared, his mouth gaped. But not a word said he. It was Napoleon at Waterloo. Scout Harris had no words.
In a minute or two Fixer became entangled in the weeds, and seemed to be in danger of sinking. Ellesmere, without thinking what he was about, made a hasty effort to save the dog, seized hold of him, but lost his own balance and fell out of the boat. In another moment Mildred gave me the end of her shawl to hold, which she had wound round herself, and sprang out too.
He did not know all about the different kinds of birds, but he knew all about the different kinds of eats, and there are more kinds of eats than there are kinds of birds. How the Bridgeboro troop would be able to get along without their little mascot was a question. For he was their "fixer." That was his middle name "fixer."
This Danny Royal was all things. He could take any shift in a gambling-house, he was an accomplished fixer, he had been a jockey and had handled the Kirby string of horses. He was a miner of sorts, too, having superintended the Rouletta Mine during its brief and prosperous history; as a trainer he was without a peer.
By some of the dark ingenuities of that age of priestcraft a curious thing was discovered that if you kill every usurer, every forestaller, every adulterater, every user of false weights, every fixer of false boundaries, every land-thief, every water-thief, you afterwards discover by a strange indirect miracle, or disconnected truth from heaven, that you have no millionaires.
«En examinant de plus près ces mamelons répandus dans le vallon, on voit qu'ils sont composés de pierres, de sables, et de débris rapportés et amoncelés sans ordre depuis des temps dont rien ne peut fixer l'époque: on voit que les eaux du Rhône ont coulé
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