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We shall need to pitch in pretty hard for about a week or ten days. That will give us a good big stock, and after that if we turn out a hundred each every day it will be all right. A hundred's not much fag if you spread them over a day." Linton admitted that this was sound, and the Locksley Lines Supplying Trust, Ltd., set to work in earnest.
And Old Hundred again whipped up his team, precipitating a lady into the lap of the gentleman who was "nearly gone," and well-nigh completing his annihilation. In less time than when a friendly sail is lost in the mist, Old Hundred's bulky land-wherry passed from view, and the soldier again turned to his companion.
"A hundred's the game," says the Englishman, putting up his cue. "One shilling." I wonder if this is an English custom to pay your victor a shilling, instead of paying the keeper of the tables. But as there is no one else to pay, I pay the Englishman. Bunker has fallen asleep in his chair. "Going on the Continent?" the Englishman asks. "Not at present.
"Nineteen hundred and thirty pounds in a good year. Must eat and drink; must have a man to look after me not as active as I was. Can't do on less than five hundred pounds. Fourteen hundred's all I can give you, gentlemen; it's an advance of two hundred pounds. That's my last word." The silence was broken by Mr. Ventnor. "And it's my last word that I'm not satisfied.
"Well, I guess you'll think I'm about as forth-putting as I was when I wanted you to give me a three-hundred-dollar picture for a week's board." "I only got a hundred and sixty, Mrs. Durgin," said Westover, conscientiously. "Well, it's a shame. Any rate, three hundred's the price to all my boarders. My, if I've told that story once, I guess I've told it fifty times!" Mrs.
Four hundred's not enough to satisfy a mercenary individual, but it's enough to enable a woman to marry for love and not for a home!" He spoke with a kind of repressed bitterness, as though memory had stirred into fresh flame the embers of some burnt-out passion of regret, and Sara looked at him with suddenly aroused interest.
Gin it be a puir body, tell her tae keep it and get a bit plaidie wi' the money, and she 'ill maybe think o' her auld doctor at a time. "Nae fear o' that as lang as a'm livin', Weelum; that hundred's still tae the fore, ye ken, an' a'll tak care it's weel spent.
"Well, count sheep going through a gate. A hundred's the prescribed amount." She tried to smile because she knew that if she did not, he would think she was unhappy or depressed. "No, I want you to let me have a book," she said; "I think perhaps if I read " "Of course, take anything you like, and try smoking a cigarette. That may make you drowsy." He lay back on the pillows.
Jacob Welse glanced over it and looked up coolly. "One thousand pounds of grub." "That's what I say, but that fellow you've got in the warehouse says no, five hundred's all it's good for." "He spoke the truth." "But " "It stands for one thousand pounds, but in the warehouse it is only good for five hundred." "That your signature?" thrusting the receipt again into the other's line of vision.
You know very well mother would hate the idea of me earning money. Hate it! But I mean to earn some. Surely it's much better to bring more money in than to pinch and scrape. I loathe pinching and scraping." "It's a sound loathing." "And I thought I'd got hold of a scheme. But it's too big. I have fifty pounds odd of my own, but what use is fifty pounds when a hundred's needed?
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