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They went down, over and over again, among the Germans; and I could lay any money that they would succeed. "'How did they get taken prisoners? Gambetta asked, as sharp as a knife. "'By no fault of their own, I answered.
"Pooh!" said Bouvard. "But I am!" cried the other. "It is not your money but your convictions that I want. Come," replied Bouvard. "Oh! you obstinate fellow!" said Minoret. The Mesmerist led his sceptic, with some precaution, up a dingy staircase to the fourth floor.
"Who of you, if he wishes to build a tower, does not first sit down and count the cost, to see whether he has money enough to finish it? Otherwise, if he has laid the foundation and is unable to finish the building, all who see it make fun of him and say, 'This man began to build but could not finish!"
The third bell was ringing, the blast of the steam whistle was echoing across the bay, and the steamer was only waiting for the mails. Taking a step nearer to the gangway, the old parson talked faster. "Did Aunt Anna give you money enough, child?" "Enough for my boat fare and my train." "No more! Now Anna is so " "Don't trouble, grandfather. Woman wants but little here below Aunt Anna excepted.
That seems a most reasonable figure." "Well, fork over the twenty-five then, and the deal's closed." "I'd have to send you the money to-morrow I mean to-day. You see, the thief took all my cash when he took my overcoat." "Did, huh?" "Yes, that's the present condition of things. Very annoying, isn't it? But I'll take your address.
She had undoubtedly received overtures from the directors of the Institute of whom poor Aunt Ju had for the moment been the spokeswoman, and in these overtures it had been intimated to her that the directors would be happy to remunerate her for her trouble should the money collected at the hall enable them to do so.
She half turned, and waited irresolutely until the cold sting of the rain forced her to realize that the middle of the street was no place for deciding a weighty question. Then she went slowly toward home, uncomfortable because she had taken the money, happy because of the affection and sympathy Ruth had shown her.
He liked the word, and tried to picture what "operating" might mean in relation to a board. The good people of Wellsville regarded this uncle with quite all the respect so flashing a figure deserved. Not so the two other Uncle Bunkers from over Walnut Shade way. Their first known agreement, voiced of this financier, was in saying something wise about a fool and his money.
When the body is deposited in the church during the service for the dead, every person invited to the burial lays a piece of money upon the altar to defray the dead person's charges to the other world, which, after the ceremony is over, the parson puts in his pocket.
It seems that, many years before, a young man had migrated from the valley and settled at a distant seaport, where, after getting together a little money, he had set up as a shopkeeper. His name but I could never learn whether it was his real one, or a nickname that had grown out of his habits and success in life was Gathergold.
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