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As such smuggling avoided the high export duty, the maximum prices appointed by the Ukrainian Government were constantly being overbid.
I'm not obliged to call for sealed bids, or anything like that, so when I've heard from everybody, I'll give you a chance to bid against the highest offer in hand. If you want to top it, you can have the collection for any kind of an overbid that doesn't look too suspiciously nominal." "Why, Jeff, I appreciate that," Gresham said.
"Strange," mused the officer; "it must be the slave that I bid for in the market." And so indeed it was the same beautiful being who had so earnestly attracted him, as the reader will remember, when the Sultan's agent, Mustapha, overbid him in the bazaar. "You know her then?" asked the Armenian. "I think so; but go on."
In view of my estimate I can not for the life of me see how your local company overbid us all by over a million dollars." "It is curious," admitted Bobby, still much puzzled. "It's rather unsportsmanlike in me to whine," resumed Ferris, "but I am bound to believe that there is a colored gentleman in the woodpile somewhere." "That would be no novelty," returned Bobby.
Hastings' boat, Boreck, sometimes called Murdock by his cronies, unknown to them, had secreted the jewel in one of the braces under the gasoline tank. He expected to get it out secretly, but the capture of the gang and the sale of the boat prevented this. Then he tried to buy the craft to take out the diamond, but Tom overbid him.
To this new phase his sense of humor did not rise. Mr. Brice was a Yankee and no gentleman, inasmuch as he had overbid a lady for Hester. "Have you come here to live, Mr. Brice?" he asked. The Colonel eyed his nephew sharply. But Stephen smiled. "Yes," he said, "if I can presently make enough to keep me alive." Then turning to Virginia, he said, "Will you dance, Miss Carvel?"
"We've lost three, I'm afraid, Major Benjy," she said. "Don't you think you overbid your hand just a little wee bit?" "I don't know about that, Miss Elizabeth," said the Major. "If you hadn't let those two spades go, and hadn't trumped my best heart " Miss Mapp interrupted with her famous patter.
To this new phase his sense of humor did not rise. Mr. Brice was a Yankee and no gentleman, inasmuch as he had overbid a lady for Hester. "Have you come here to live, Mr. Brice?" he asked. The Colonel eyed his nephew sharply. But Stephen smiled. "Yes," he said, "if I can presently make enough to keep me alive." Then turning to Virginia, he said, "Will you dance, Miss Carvel?"
He, however, will overbid all, up to four thousand. He will, probably, have it knocked down to him at three thousand, and thus come into the unencumbered possession of a piece of property upon which he has received two thousand dollars." "But three thousand dollars will not satisfy his claim against me." "No. You will still owe him a thousand dollars." "Will he prosecute his claim?" "He?"
Some estates had suffered for a short time; there was a pretty general fluctuation for a month or two, the people leaving one estate and going to another. But this, said Mr. B., was chargeable to the folly of the planters, who overbid each other in order to secure the best hands and enough of them.
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