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I believe we should starve to death if we stayed here long. If it wa'n't for gittin' my money's worth, I should be for goin' home to-morrow. No butter an' no tea after we've come that long journey. I never heard of such a thing." "I don't care anything about the butter and the tea," rejoined Amanda, "but I 'most feel as if I'd better go home to-morrow." "If," said Mrs.
The question is, why, if one man is not presumed to intend to pay money until he has money's worth, the other is presumed to intend to give money's worth before he has money. An answer cannot be obtained from any general theory.
And in this case I am sure in time that it will give you a just comprehension of money's value. "If we do not recover the locket, why, in time, we will look about for another pretty trinket " "No, Uncle Dick," Betty said seriously. "I loved that locket. I should have been more careful of it. I hope it will be found and returned to me. I do! I do! But I don't want you to give me another."
After the ceremony the rent begins and the grocers' bills and the butchers' and the bakers' and a thousand or so more. Somebody's got to pay 'em, and the money's got to come from somewhere. Your wages here, Al, poetry counted in, ain't so very big yet. Better wait a spell before you settle down to married life, hadn't you?" "Well well, I I didn't say we were to be married right away, Grandfather.
If I could raise the money within thirty days..." Thornton laughed. "Nothing doing, Pollard," he cut in. "When your money's due you can come talk to me. Not before." "I said I had a proposition, didn't I?" went on Pollard evenly. "I see where I can make by it, and I'm willing for you to profit at the same time." "Spit it out. Where do I get off?" "You owe me five thousand yet."
"But isn't this other scandal just what you're going in for?" "It will be a great public service." "You mean it will be a big scandal, whereas my poor story would be a very small one, and that it's only out of a big one that money's to be made." Mr. Locket got up he too had his dignity to vindicate. "Such a sum as I offer you ought really to be an offset against all claims."
If you do " He stopped, unable to continue. "Oh, yes," said Herbert slowly, "I think I know what you mean. Of course I'm not going back on my word to a pal." "Then give me the money I let you have to bet on Barville." "Why, that money's gone. We lost it." "Yes, but you pledged yourself to make good any loss I might sustain. There are reasons why I must have that money back right away, too."
The former continued: "I'd touch on the money-question last, with any other fellow than you; but you always know that money's the hinge, and nothing else lifts a man out of a scrape.
"Good," said the shoemaker. "But you will get your money's worth. The bed is a good one. It is my son's. He is away, and I am alone in the house." He led the way upstairs as he spoke, going heavily one step at a time, so that the whole house seemed to shake beneath his tread. The room was that attic in the roof which has a dormer window overhanging the linden tree.
"There won't be money's worth left in my field, at the rate you're spoilin' it." She turned upon the two judges, who were advancing timidly to placate her, while the crowd hung back. "And now, Mr Nicholls now, Mr Widger I'd like to hear what you have to say to this!"
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