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Thus do we buy a pig or land or labour or malt or lime, always with elaboration and set forms; and many a London man has paid double and more for his violence and his greedy haste and very unchivalrous higgling.
'To me that's about the average value of books like these. Perhaps the offer was a fair one; perhaps it was not. Reardon had neither time nor spirit to test the possibilities of the market; he was ashamed to betray his need by higgling. 'I'll take it, he said, in a matter-of-fact voice. A messenger was sent for the books that afternoon.
And it seems to me that the establishment of the world's work upon a new basis and that and no less is what this Labour Unrest demands for its pacification is just one of those large alterations which will never be made by the collectively unconscious activities of men, by competitions and survival and the higgling of the market.
"What! half a crown for a book no thicker than a quire of paper?" "Only half a crown for a thing I could be put in prison for selling. Is not my risk to be paid as well as my leaves?" This logic went home, and after a little higgling two shillings was offered and accepted, but in the very act of commerce the trader seemed to have a misgiving.
There is a ceaseless higgling and haggling, or rather a life-and-death struggle between these two things as long as life lasts, and one or other or both have in no small part to re-enter into the womb from whence they came and be born again in some form which shall give greater satisfaction. All change is pro tanto death or pro tanto birth.
A good deal of higgling about the price of the choicest bird had taken place between Billy Kirby and its owner before Natty and his companions rejoined the sportsmen It had, however, been settled at one shilling * a shot, which was the highest sum ever exacted, the black taking care to protect himself from losses, as much as possible, by the conditions of the sport.
There was little in the way of higgling: for Cornish proudly refused much to discuss matters; and when we found what we must pay to prevent the explosion, it sickened us. Jim strongly urged upon Harper the taking of Cornish's shares. "No," said Harper, "the Frugality and Indemnity is too good a thing to drop; and I can't carry both.
You understand, don't you? There are people of position who dislike uproar; they go by themselves to the Grotto, and pray there all day long, for days together, and pay good prices for their accommodation without any higgling."
Lafayette wrote to his wife in 1777: "Host and hostess sit at the table with you and do the honors of a comfortable meal, and on going away you pay your fare without higgling." Dr. Dwight said the best old-fashioned New England inns were superior to any of the modern ones.
I never was in Leaplow, but we says over 'ere, that the Leaplowers eat, and drink, and sleep on our opinions. Lord, sir, it would really do your heart good to see the stuff, in these harticles, that they does take from us without higgling!" "I presume, brigadier, that you use them as an amusement as a means to pass a pleasant hour, of an evening a sort of moral segar?"
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