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"If he happens to be a millionaire, Ted," he remarked and a twinkle shone through his glasses "you may give up all hope of getting anything out of him. It is proverbial that such gentry haggle over a six-pence when it comes to gratuities!"
"Would you haggle with God?" asked Valentine. So pretty Michal partook of the Lord's Supper, and the clergyman gave her his benediction. And pretty Michal at that moment had no bodily ailment, yet for all that she was on the point of death. Next day it was a dark January morning the gloomy scaffold stood ready in the market-place of Kassa.
He began to haggle, after the usual fashion, with the nearest driver; and again I marvelled at the Duke's disguise; for it was he, of course. Once clear of the city Mishka unfolded the plan. "Presently we turn across country and come to a house; there we leave the droshky; and there also will be horses for us in readiness if we should need them later.
He did not haggle with his tempter over the price but agreed to pay, if only he might have his beautiful kingdom. He did not hear stealthy footsteps along the corridor, nor the rustling of cautiously drawn shades in Jonathan's office. The visitor, too, supposed that he had the building to himself. But he worked by the light of a dark-lantern and tiptoed instinctively.
and yet to have to sit at a desk all day long, with a pen in your hand, in obedience to the orders of the First Lord of the Admiralty! It's hard to know you can "Bear swift errands over moist and dry, O'er sea and land," as his laureate Milton puts it, and yet be doomed to keep still hour after hour in a stuffy office, or to haggle over details of pork and cheese in a malodorous victualing yard.
"I'll make it twopence," said his lordship "twopence and a screw of snuff." "I'll do it for a extry sixpince," Joseph repeated, doggedly. Noblesse oblige. There was a point beyond which the Earl of Barfield could not haggle. He surrendered, but it galled him, and the agreeable sense of humor with which he commonly regarded Joseph Beaker failed him for the rest of that afternoon.
"I will give you twenty crowns," Gerald replied; "and considering that you owe your life to my interposition, I think that you ought not to haggle about terms." "The party who attacked us," the muleteer said, "lost their captain and several of their comrades in that fray, and would I doubt not gladly enter into your service, seeing that they have received such proof of your worship's valour."
"Thursday night," said the seaman, "Five hundred is my price; p'raps he told you. I'm not going to haggle." "Just so, just so," said the other quietly. "It's worth five hundred." "Spoke like a man," said the seaman warmly. "I like to deal with a man who knows his own mind," said the stranger, "it saves trouble. But if we buy it for that amount you must do one thing for us.
Then they left, but before they went they demanded still more money ten thousand pieces of eight as a ransom for the town, which otherwise should be given to the flames. There was some hesitation on the part of the Spaniards, some disposition to haggle, but there was no hesitation on the part of l'Olonoise.
"And now, one question, and I've done. Did you never kiss a girl?" No answer. "Come, that's the last. After all you've owned you needn't haggle at that; out with it, man, it must come at last. Did you never kiss a girl?" Alas for the sake of morality, the witness was at length obliged to own that he had perpetrated the enormity. "And," asked Mr.
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