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He was not even worrying about what the holiday was costing, and had made up his mind to pay not only his own expenses but his wife's as well, and surprise her at the end by presenting her with her nest-egg as intact as when she started; and just the knowledge that he was preparing a happy surprise for her made him feel warmer than ever towards her. In fact Mr.
The nine shillings will go on till we get another fee; for I have two frocks ready made for the Popes, so the two pounds are a real nest-egg towards the church." "The church!" repeated Rlchard, half smiling. "I looked in the paper the other day, and saw that a chapel had been built for nine hundred pounds," said Ethel. "And you have two!"
"It's not for sale. Seven figures wouldn't touch it." He looked at it lovingly before he put it up, and then added: "Well, there's a figure for each, Rodney, and a big nest-egg for the old woman besides. There's nothing like it, old man. You'd better come in." And he put his hand affectionately on Henderson's knee. Jeremiah Hollowell commonly known as Jerry was a remarkable man.
I'll give you the benefit of my experience as a 'tec, and with my plot and your own writing we'll be able to knock up a story for the paper I talk of. Then, with one hundred pounds you'll have a nest-egg to start with." "I accept with gratitude," said Beecot, moved, "but I really don't know why you should trouble about me."
"It is just like you," Elisabeth continued, tossing her head, "to be so busy saving your own soul and laying up for yourself a nice little nest-egg in heaven, that you haven't time to consider other people and their interests and feelings." "I think you do me an injustice," replied Christopher quietly.
Stephen in a few words thanked the president and the council very heartily, and then retired with the admiral. “That is a nice little nest-egg for you, Stephen,” the latter said. “I consider that it ought to have been fifty thousand, but their necessities are so great that they cannot afford to be generous.”
His burgher thrift began to assert itself again, and he deposited a nest-egg from the ransoms of his prisoners in the hands of his host, who gave him bonds by which he could recover the sum from Lombard correspondents in London.
Several months passed before Polly, on the threshold of her parlour, could exclaim, with an artlessness that touched her husband deeply: "Never in my life did I think I should have such a beautiful room!" Still, as regarded money, the whole year had been a steady ascent. The nest-egg he had left with the lawyer had served its purpose of chaining that old hen, Fortune, to the spot.
One would have imagined that his sole idea about the nest-egg had always been that it should be lavished on just this.
Wal, yis, naow goin' to walk to the cross-road tavern? better not. Jest wait a minit and I'll hitch up and take ye over. "Thank you, Biah, but I can't stop, and I'd rather walk, so I won't trouble you." "Wal, look here don't ye want a sort o' nest-egg? I've got fifty silver dollars laid up: you take it on venture and give me half what it brings." "Thank you, Biah.
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