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Anyway, Miss Dora wanted her letter to git here, and so she says to me that if I'd take it, she'd pay the hire of a hack, and so, as I wanted to see you anyway, Mike, I 'greed quick enough." Before delivering the letter with which she had been entrusted, Phoebe proceeded to attend to some personal business, which was to ask her husband to lend her five dollars.
I don't hardly see how they can do any more 'n that in Chicago!" "Never mind if we have lost members!" said the indomitable Mrs. Burbank. "The members we still have left must work all the harder. We'll each clean our own pew, then take a few of our neighbours', and then hire Mrs. Simpson to do the wainscoting and floor. Can we scrub Friday and lay the carpet Saturday?
Stephen would then start for the Zaouïa, for an interview with the marabout, who, no doubt, was already wondering why he did not follow up his first attempt by a second. He would hire or buy in the city a racing camel fitted with a bassour large enough for two, and this he would take with him to the Zaouïa, ready to bring away both sisters. No allusion to Saidee would be made in words.
Nate was willin' to let it. He'd let Tophet, if he owned it, and a fool come along who wanted to hire it and could pay for the rent and heat. "So Nate and this Harmon feller rowed over to the Bar to Ozone Island, I mean and the desolation and loneliness of it seemed to suit him to perfection.
They would have been powerless. Tho leaders, they followed, and their kind always will follow, the university student. They may hire this student and pay him his wage, but they are still indebted to him for leading them onward and upward.
With Sir G. Carteret and both the Sir Williams at Whitehall to wait on the Duke in his chamber, which we did about getting money for the Navy and other things. So back again to the office all the morning. Thence to the Exchange to hire a ship for the Maderas, but could get none.
Little did I suspect, when I parted from the upholsterer on the fifth of the month, what the tenth of the month had in store for me. On the seventh I made up my mind to have the bedroom furnished at once, and to postpone the question of the sitting-room for a few days longer. Having dispatched the necessary order to that effect, I next wrote to hire the piano and to order the box of novels.
Fetch it here in cabs; hire every cab you meet on the way; and when you've brought 'em, tell 'em to wait!" An hour later a procession of fifteen cabs drove up to the Grand Central Hotel, Bursfield, to the frank dismay of hall-porters and manager; a dismay which Miss Sally accepted with the lordliest indifference. "You see that they're stowed," she advised Mr.
We were strong enough now. We had a long and tough piece of work before us, but we carried it through before night, Joan keeping us hard at it, and she and La Hire saying we were able to take that big bastille, and must. The English fought like well, they fought like the English; when that is said, there is no more to say.
He says he was on his way over to the Two Diamond, for a job." The young man opened his lips slightly. "Stafford hire you?" he asked. "I'm hopin' he does," returned Ferguson. The young man's lips drooped sneeringly. "I reckon you're wantin' a job mighty bad," he said. Ferguson smiled. "Takin' your talk, you an' Stafford ain't very good friends," he returned. The young man did not answer.
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