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She had taken his measure as perfectly as the tailor himself, and was enjoying the counterfeit presentment of a real London dandy who came to her in the shape of a house-agent. "I don't want a big place," she explained in English, with a foreign touch about it. "There's only myself and my uncle, Major Duplay he'll be in directly, I expect and we've no more money than we want, Mr Sloyd."
He was looking for a totally different kind of house in another part of the town." "I don't believe that!" his wife broke in. "Well, no matter. But see what a scandalous rent you asked for it." "We didn't get much more than half; and, besides, the agent told me to ask fourteen hundred." "Oh, I'm not blaming you, Isabel. I'm only analyzing the house-agent and exonerating Fulkerson."
To use one of Fanny Kemble's expressions, "we felt mean," and left the office of this aristocratical house-agent half ashamed of our humble fortunes. I fear I should tire the patience of the reader, did I detail all our "adventures in search of a house," but we must entreat indulgence for our last journey.
And I thought somehow that an arboreal villa agency was a sort of of compromise between being a botanist and being a house-agent." Rupert could not help laughing. "Do you have much custom?" he asked. "But what there is very select." "My dear friends," said Basil, puffing his cigar, "always remember two facts.
She looked at it all as though it had been the scene of some unknown life, of which the vague report had reached her: she felt for herself the only remote pity that busy people accord to the misfortunes which come to them by hearsay. She walked to Broadway and down to the office of the house-agent to whom she had entrusted the sub-letting of the shop.
Any new Utopias lately?" "No, I'm house-hunting, Mr. Wilcox, as I've already told you once. Do you know of any houses?" "Afraid I don't." "Well, what's the point of being practical if you can't find two distressed females a house? We merely want a small house with large rooms, and plenty of them." "Evie, I like that! Miss Schlegel expects me to turn house-agent for her!" "What's that, father?"
The room ye work in, the dead work they pile on ye; or maybe 'tis more credit ye need at the store, or maybe the doctor to come when ye're sick. Just now 'tis our roof that leaks so bad we can't find a dry place to sleep when it rains." "I see," said Hal. "Who owns the house?" "Sure, there's none but company houses here." "Who's supposed to fix it?" "Mr. Kosegi, the house-agent.
We take the trouble to follow him to one of his appointments, and if ever two human beings were plotting together and lying to every one else, he and that impossible house-agent were doing it. We followed him home, and the very same night he is in the thick of a fatal, or nearly fatal, brawl, in which he is the only man armed.
"I want a quiet street," said the wily writer, and named the one in which it stood. "Have you nothing there?" "I have one," said the agent with reserve, "and it's only seventy." "The less the better," cried Langholm, light-heartedly. "I should like to see that one." The house-agent hesitated, finally looking Langholm in the face.
He was looking for a totally different kind of house in another part of the town." "I don't believe that!" his wife broke in. "Well, no matter. But see what a scandalous rent you asked for it." "We didn't get much more than half; and, besides, the agent told me to ask fourteen hundred." "Oh, I'm not blaming you, Isabel. I'm only analyzing the house-agent and exonerating Fulkerson."
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