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Goodman, "but another week I must 'ave, so I must get the money somehow. Peter can't spend much, the way he goes on." Sam gave a little cough. "I'll get a pound or two out of 'im," ses Mr. Goodman. Sam coughed agin. "Won't he think it rather funny?" he ses, arter a bit. "Not if it's managed properly," ses Mr. Good-man, thinking 'ard. "I'll tell you 'ow we'll do it.
Every body agrees the French won't hold out much longer, and then we must have a peace for want of enemies." "So best, so best, boy; for one, who has seen so much of the horrors of war as I, knows how to put a rational value on the blessings of tranquillity!" "Then you ar'n't altogether unacquainted, good-man, with the new trade you thought of setting up?"
He has worried me so this whole day, that I had to show him two full puncheons. Our neighbor, Pierre Champlain, fortunately had two which he had not sold. I asked him to kindly let me have them rolled into our cellar; and oh, dear! now that the good-man has seen them he insists on bottling them off himself!"
"This is all water that you see about you, except that hommoc of blue in the eastern board, which is a morsel of upland in the Bahamas, d'ye see." "A sinful and presuming world is this we live in!" returned the good-man; "nor can any one tell at what moment his life is to be taken from him.
She did her best to keep the hovel tidy, to make the bravest show with their scanty chattels, to administer discreetly the stores of their frugal larder, and to recompense the good-man returning from his hard day's work, with much of rude joy and bustling kindness.
"Well, Monsieur, to cut short discussion on this point, I will say, once for all, that death in foreign countries or on the field of battle is outside of our " "Then what are you insuring? Nothing at all!" cried Margaritis. "My bank, my Territorial Bank, rested upon " "Nothing at all?" exclaimed Gaudissart, interrupting the good-man. "Nothing at all?
And whenever we think of our honored ancestry, it is not as individual adventurers; but we see the good-man, the good-wife, and their children, as the representatives of the great body of those, who with them planted homes, families, society, civilization, in the Western World.
The sudden exhibition of a horde of wealth, which not only greatly exceeded any thing of the kind he had ever before witnessed, but which actually surpassed his limited imaginative powers, was not without its effect on the sensitive feelings of the good-man After feasting on the sight, for the few moments that his companion left the treasure exposed to view, he turned to the envied possessor of so much gold, and demanded, the tones of increased confidence gradually stealing into his voice, as the inward man felt additional motives of encouragement,
If the good-man Homespun could smooth down the temper of his companion as easily as he lays a seam into its place, the thing might not occur, but Do you drink this morning, sir?" "A drop of your best."
"It ain't so 'orrid as I 'ad fancied," ses Sam, lap-ping up the rest very gentle. "'Ave you 'ad enough to do you all the good it ought to?" Mr. Goodman said that it was no good 'arf doing a thing, and p'r'aps he 'ad better 'ave one more; and arter Sam 'ad paid for the next two they went out arm-in-arm. "'Ow cheerful everybody looks!" ses Mr. Good-man, smiling.
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