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Updated: May 1, 2025
She was a combination beggar and merchant, with a blundering wit, a ready tongue and a vocabulary unfit for publication. Her commercial genius is shown in the fact that she secured one good-paying customer Alexander T. Stewart. Stewart grew to believe in her as his spirit of good luck.
We couldn't afford it." "That would not be necessary, madam, I assure you," murmured Mr. Smith gravely. "But how do you get money to live on? I mean, how am I to know that I'll get my pay?" she persisted. "Excuse me, but that kind of business doesn't sound very good-paying; and, you see, I don't know you. And in these days " An expressive pause finished her sentence. Mr. Smith smiled.
And you know that from the time I was Macklin's age it has been my ambition to be a banker like grandfather. Since I failed to get that, nobody, not even Aunt Eunice, knows how hard I've tried to get into some steady, good-paying job.
A bright fellow entering the telegraph service to-day finds the experience he may gain therein valuable, but he soon realizes that there are not enough good-paying official positions to "go around," so as to give each worthy man a chance after he has mastered the essentials of the art.
"But I've rode a long ways, and this ain't much to find at the end of the trail." "Maybe it'll pan out pretty well after all." "If Sour Creek holds the person I'm after, I'll call it a good-paying game." "I hope you find your friend," remarked Riley, with his deceptive softness of tone. "Friend? Hell! And that's where this friend will wish me when I heave in sight.
That didn't startle me. I had been in the business long enough to know that the average newspaper man is forever threatening to resign. Most of them to hear them talk are always just on the point of throwing up their jobs and buying a good-paying country weekly somewhere and taking things easy for the rest of their lives, or else they're going into magazine work. Only they hardly ever do it.
It was a paradox that this poverty-stricken soldier should entertain so lavishly, and the people admired the nerve which prompted him to do it, supposing, many of them, that his creditors were men of a speculative nature, who saw in the man a good-paying future investment.
The dismal house boasted a sham carriage entrance, the porter's box being contrived behind one of the useless leaves of the gate, and lighted by a peephole through which that personage watched the comings and goings of seventeen families, for this hive was a "good-paying property," in auctioneer's phrase. Lucien, looking round the room, discovered a desk, an easy-chair, paper, pens, and ink.
It seemed to him that every blow of that bit was struck upon his naked nerves, for he had a deep conviction that this was to prove the night of his life, and the strain of waiting was becoming onerous. This well meant so much. Ten thousand barrels, fifteen, five even one thousand; it mattered little how heavy the flow, for a good-paying well would see him through his immediate troubles.
Even if you can not get just what you might want, you can have plenty of good-paying work, and be at home. Something brought in every week for the support of the children is needed here more than anything else." "I can not see my way clear to do that, Austin. While I am sticking with a poor job here, the very kind I want might be getting away from me.
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