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The desire to prune, compress, overcharge, was a torment to the nervous woman writing under a sharp necessity for payment. Her songs were shot off on the impulsion; prose was the heavy task. 'To be pointedly rational, she said, 'is a greater difficulty for me than a fine delirium. She did not talk as if it would have been so, he remarks.
From what the doctor said you can let us have some." "I can do that. The storeroom's chuck-full; and it was only a few days ago I said to David it was time we set about getting them off. I will fill your cart, sir, and not overcharge you neither.
Our friend is not a very adventurous or hot-headed person, but he has passed through many dangers, as his mother can testify: there is one great story in particular, concerning a hackney coachman who wanted to overcharge him one night for bringing them home from the play, upon which Felix gave the aforesaid coachman a look which his mother thought would have crushed him to the earth, but which did not crush him quite, for he continued to demand another sixpence, notwithstanding that Felix took out his pocket-book, and, with the aid of a flat candle, pointed out the fare in print, which the coachman obstinately disregarding, he shut the street-door with a slam which his mother shudders to think of; and then, roused to the most appalling pitch of passion by the coachman knocking a double knock to show that he was by no means convinced, he broke with uncontrollable force from his parent and the servant girl, and running into the street without his hat, actually shook his fist at the coachman, and came back again with a face as white, Mrs.
"And what are we to do about our day's work, Mouche and I?" "What is your day worth?" "For the pair of us, my apprentice and me? Five francs," said the old man, looking Blondet in the eye with a hesitation which betrayed an enormous overcharge. The journalist took ten francs from his pocket, saying, "There's ten, and I'll give you ten more for the otter."
He smiled sort o' quiet-like, and said: 'No, it war jest a difficulty about an overcharge of five sous, and it's all settled. 'All that row for five sous? I asked. 'Yes, he answered. Then I said, 'My God, suppose it hed a-been five francs, it would uv been ez good ez er play. Yo' see, that old trick thet they got from big Charlie, they overplay sometimes."
The man who had come to fix the apparatus was unwilling to guarantee it, unless a sign was put on the outside of the door, warning incomers that the door was self-closing. This sign would cost fifteen cents extra. "But you didn't say anything about this when the thing was ordered," declared S. Behrman. "No, I won't pay it, my friend. It's an overcharge."
"Say three," cried the Major. "Well, then, say four guineas: I have a lot of work in store for you." "I never overcharge, and I never depart from my figures," the lapidary answered. "There is only one other man in London who knows the secret of this enamel, and he is my brother. They never make such enamel now.
Make your bargain before you get into the Ark that's what we call this stage or he surely will overcharge you. Oh! how-do, Miss Picolet!" She spoke to the French teacher so carelessly indeed, in so scornful a tone that Ruth was startled. Miss Picolet bowed gravely and said something in return in her own language which made Miss Cox flush, and her eyes sparkle.
And besides that, both parties always derive much benefit from a transaction involving no overcharge. It has always been my experience that, when an overcharge is made, one's nature gets hot, and it results in nobody's knowing exactly what he is doing or saying.
The goods and parcels traffic also furnishes a wide field for overcharge, and also of vexatious delay when the stimulus of a commission on the transaction is lacking. If a servant is sent to fetch a tonga from the bazaar, more often than not he will make the driver give him a pice or two, under the threat of otherwise not giving him any more of his master's custom.
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