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I never knew a man spend less upon himself; but he would be extravagant for me, and I dared hardly utter a foolish liking lest he should straightway turn it into a cause of shame by attempting to gratify it. He had, besides, a weakness for over-paying people, of which neither Marion nor I could honestly approve, however much we might admire the disposition whence it proceeded.
"He is a little awkward, and over-blunt at moments, but nothing to which one would give a second thought. I was so pleased with him that I asked him to call on me." "It seems to me," said another, "that you are over-paying him." "That was the most curious part," replied Miss De Voe. "I'm not at all sure that he means to come.
Most of us did not mind being scolded for over-paying our sweating rick-shaw coolies, but we all felt rather uncomfortable when we were told that we should never have paid the first price asked in any of the shops, and that our prize purchases could probably have been bought for half the price by a clever bargainer.
"Well, I swan!" he said. "I guess you must find it pretty slow down here. But" brightening "if you feel that way about it, I'd better take you over to Sothern and Lee's. They'd be glad to get you at the price." "And in a week they'd think they were over-paying me," Duncan argued. "No I've been there. Why not try me on here?" "Well, I'm just a little bit afraid you wouldn't learn much, my boy.
"How much would you consider your services worth?" asked Mr. Melville. "I am content to leave that to you," said Herbert. "Suppose we say six dollars a week, then?" "Six dollars a week!" exclaimed Herbert, amazed. "Isn't that enough?" asked Melville, smiling. "It is more than I can earn. Mr. Graham thought he was over-paying me with three dollars a week."
But he thought he was over-paying me, inasmuch as, every time I dressed his beard he would croak out to me, with closed eyes, an aria of his own composing, which flayed the skin off my ears, although the remarkable antics of this creature afforded me much entertainment which was the reason I continued to go back to him.
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