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Updated: June 11, 2025
I am no compromiser, no treaty-maker, no haggler, no beggar. I live according to my own law. I must, where other people merely should or may, or may not. Whoever does not comprehend that has nothing in common, one way or the other, with me.” She was terrified at the presumptuousness of his words; and yet there was a feeling in her of joy and pride: she felt a desire to be for him, to be with him.
"I'll think it over," said Tess, leaving the room. "Well, she's made a conquest o' the younger branch of us, straight off," continued the matron to her husband, "and she's a fool if she don't follow it up." "I don't quite like my children going away from home," said the haggler. "As the head of the family, the rest ought to come to me." "But do let her go, Jacky," coaxed his poor witless wife.
"I am no haggler. . . . But you have never comprehended me, not even in the old days when we loved each other. For instance, do you understand slave of a spoken word! what it must mean to me to know that at this hour to-morrow there will be alive in Venaissin no person whom I hate?" Messire de Vaquieras reflected. His was never a rapid mind.
"Bartholomew," said he, "I cannot understand this gentleman. What can he want to purchase in the Gulf of Cedars but his wife's grave? And yet of such a bargain how can he speak as he has spoken?" I shook my head. "It must be that he is a merchant, and is too old to speak but as a haggler. Yet I am sure his mind works deeper than this haggling."
"Perhaps something like this is what you are looking for?" she remarked politely, but firmly. The customer, an acidulous, sharp-featured, showily dressed person the sort, Gabriella decided, who would enjoy haggling over a bargain regarded the offered hat with a supercilious and guarded manner, the true manner of the haggler.
"I hain't got time to go back," he said, as an inspiration came to him; "but I guess you kin do jest as well. This book here," picking up the last of the three from the seat, "I offered to sell yer uncle fer five dollars; but he wanted it fer four. I ain't no haggler, you understan', so I jest driv away. Now Mr.
She wanted to be friends with all at home, to go to them fearlessly and make them understand her as she understood them, and to be good all the days of her life. "True repentance"? Why repent? . . . Ah, yes, of course: but God was no haggler over hours.
Wycherley that had she but known him to be within earshot. . . . Oh, it was only Lady Drogheda who sang, he knew, the seasoned gamester and coquette, the veteran of London and of Cheltenham, but the woman had no right to charm this haggler with a voice that was not hers.
My father, I am sure, will agree that you should deal with them according to your pleasure, and our leech Philippus, in spite of his youth, is a perfect Hippocrates I can assure you! He will patch up the fine fellow your head-man I mean, and as to any question of compensation, my father well, you know he is no haggler."
In the insanities of passion, as in some other forms of dementia, there is always left a streak of reason of that craft which leads us to try to get what we want as cheaply as possible. Men, all but beside themselves with love, will bargain over the terms, if they be of the bargaining kind by nature. Norman was not a haggler.
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