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Updated: May 15, 2025
The fact is, at least, it has never been disproved, these strangers whose movements were veiled belonged to that dark and mysterious race whose presence anywhere on this continent is a nest-egg of romance or of terror. They were Spaniards! You need not say buccaneers, you need not say gold- hunters, you need not say swarthy adventurers even: it is enough to say Spaniards!
Pretty good lil' nest-egg, eh? But now you got to find her some other place." "That don't belong to me," said the old man indifferently. "Aw don't be bashful! I onderstan' now what you los'. You dig here there migs up the scent. I just happen to step on that stone ring him, so, with my boot-heel!" "That ain't my pile," the other persisted. "I started to build a fire on that stone two nights ago.
But they were kind and bid him be cautious and keep his little nest-egg snug. "Tie it up in stout leather, my son," said a farmer from Gidleigh. "Ay, an' fasten the bag wi' a knot as'll take 'e half an hour to undo; an' remember, the less you open it, the better for your peace of mind."
This was a little blue affair in which we had always dropped what pennies and nickels we could spare. "There's our nest-egg," she announced. "You don't mean to tell me you're that much ahead of the game the first week?" "Look here, Billy," she answered. She brought out an itemized list of everything she had bought from last Monday, including Sunday's dinner. I've kept that list.
There was a general low ripple of laughter, and everybody began to talk at once, to cover the young lady's palpable confusion. Afterward, Lady Latimer, who had been amused, begged to know what that mysterious nest-egg might be. Bessie hesitated. "Tell us, do tell us," urged Dora and Mrs. Bernard; so Bessie told them.
You've got your nest-egg, whatever it is " "As a matter of fact, I've got ten thousand to start with," Bert said slowly. "But that's all I have got, Rogers," he added firmly, "And I don't propose " "You've GOT ten thousand?" asked the agent, with a kindly smile. And immediately his vehemence gave way to a sort of benign amusement. "Why, my dear boy," he said genially, "What's the matter with you?
Wilkins to come too and just for once be happy, would be both good and desirable. Which of course it wasn't; which certainly of course it wasn't. She, also, had a nest-egg, invested gradually in the Post Office Savings Bank, but to suppose that she would ever forget her duty to the extent of drawing it out and spending it on herself was surely absurd.
"'Well, Doodlem, I don't mind telling you, said the giant, soothingly. 'The great she-eagle has got it for a nest-egg. She sits on it night and day, and thinks she will bring the greatest eagle out of it that ever sharpened his beak on the rocks of Mount Skycrack. I can warrant no one else will touch it while she has got it.
It was his little nest-egg against a rainy day, and hereafter he would have to carry it where it could not readily be reached when under the spell of sudden temptation. He returned to his room, wrapped the bill into a compact little wad and tucked it far into the toe of one of his congress gaiters.
But for the thrift which, like moth, penetrated into Mrs. Wilkins's clothes and spoilt them, he had much praise. "You never know," he said, "when there will be a rainy day, and you may be very glad to find you have a nest-egg. Indeed we both may."
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