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He wriggled 'round in his chair, an' looked ten diff'rent ways fer Sunday. "'What do you say? I says, lookin' square at him, ''ll you make it a couple a hunderd? "'Wa'al, he says, 'I guess I couldn't go 's fur 's that, an' I wouldn't like to head the list anyway. "'All right, I says, 'I'll head it. Will you say one-fifty? "'No, he says, pullin' his whiskers, 'I guess not.
"One-fifty is our price, Tom. Think it over before we change our minds!" "Aw, hell," he sneered, "you can't bluff me!" "Get off of my place, you drunken scoundrel!" the Colonel, towering with rage, sprang up reaching for his cane. But Tom, panic stricken, had turned and fled. Sighing, the old gentleman dropped back into his chair. "Let me see where are we!" he said, looking closely at the board.
The local banks would suffer in proportion, though not nearly so severely, for, loaning at one-fifty, they would only sacrifice the difference between that and the lowest point to which the stock might fall. Cowperwood eyed the new-comer, when he entered, with an equivocal eye, for he knew well now what was coming. Only a few days before he had predicted an eventual smash to Addison. "Mr.
It was the ghost of a voice I used to know and I turned around in a hurry. It was Jarvis. I don't suppose it is strictly business to cry while you are shaking hands with a husky you're just putting into harness at one-fifty per.
Valises, eighteen and twenty-five kilos, two; trunks, seventy-five and seventy kilos, two; microbook case, one-fifty kilos, one. The last item fanned up a little flicker of anger in him, not at any person, even himself, but at the situation in which he found himself and the futility of the whole thing. "Yes, that's everything. I have no hand-luggage, just this stuff."
At Christmas time a quart box of forced Marshall strawberries sells at from one-fifty to eight dollars per quart, averaging about four dollars." Our most valuable allies against the insect armies are toads, bats, wasps, dragon flies, and birds; they enjoy the battle. There cannot be too many toads or bats.
Hand, Schryhart, Arneel, and Merrill, weighted with this inpouring flood of stock, which they had to take at two-twenty, hurried to their favorite banks, hypothecating vast quantities at one-fifty and over, and using the money so obtained to take care of the additional shares which they were compelled to buy. At last, however, their favorite banks were full to overflowing and at the danger-point.
And she stood gazing at him in admiration, beautiful and strong and graceful. "You mean to say " "I'm giving the chasm a hundred miles' depth. That's more than anybody could believe possible twice as much. On that assumption, my tests show the distance to the other side and there is another side, by the way! can't be over " "Five hundred miles?" "Nonsense! Not over one hundred to one-fifty.
But the moment was gone, and with it the eager excitement and the half-formed anticipations of the things he would learn and accomplish on Terra. The things he would learn microbook case, one-fifty kilos, one. One of the steel trunks was full of things he had learned and accomplished, too. Maybe they, at least, had some value....
If you'll be an angel, Ethel, and do the honors until I get here, I could lunch early, get through my business in town, and get the one-fifty train for home " "Well, that'll be all right. I'll explain," said the amiable Mrs. Harrington. A few minutes later Mrs.
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