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The young fellow with the bad amiable face came in a calash, and refused to overpay the driver with a gay decision that made him Basil's envy till he saw his tribulation in getting the troupe's luggage checked. There were forty pieces, and it always remained a mystery, considering the small amount of clothing necessary to those people on the stage, what could have filled their trunks.
He brought them back with a magnificent bow, and was then as visibly disappointed with the share of the change returned to him as a child would have been. They went to their places with the sting of his disappointment rankling in their hearts. "One ought always to overpay them," March sighed, "and I will do it from this time forth; we shall not be much the poorer for it.
There was a letter offerin' to pray with her any time she'd telephone first, an' a letter tellin' her not to overpay the hack, an' a letter sayin' as it's always darkest afore dawn, an' if she'd got any money saved up to bring it along with her an' invest it by the careful advice of him as had the letter printed at his own expense.
But you mustn't overpay me. I should be so angry if you did that." "There's no danger. I'm a good business man, I assure you. I should pay a capable secretary like you knowing several languages and all that say forty dollars a week. That's about two hundred francs." "Wouldn't that be too much?" "Hardly enough." "You are so good so good! But I knew you would be.
Tom Ryfe was going to Belgrave Square; why should he direct his driver to set him down a quarter of a mile off? why overpay the man by a shilling? why wear down the soles of an exceedingly thin and elaborate pair of boots on the hot, hard pavement without compunction? Why? Because he was in love.
I have not found that business men overpay." "You are right, I am not a business man," answered Melville, "though I wish my health would admit of my being so. As to the extra hundred dollars, I think it worth that much to come upon so comfortable a home ready to my hand. It will really be a home, such as the log cabin I looked forward to could not be."
She threw her arms round him involuntarily, for she was much agitated. "Glad, brother? Yes, I am glad because you are glad." "No more than that, Amelie? That is a small thing to be glad for." "Oh, brother! I am glad for gladness's sake! We can never overpay the debt of gratitude we owe Pierre Philibert." "O my sweet sister," replied he, kissing her, "I knew my news would please you.
She would make any sacrifice for me that a mother would make for a daughter. She has been mother and sister to me. I cannot overpay her devotion by any unselfishness of mine." As she spoke, Lynde caught a hateful glimpse of the road through the stubby pine-trees beyond.
The Queen turned her round, and with one of those sweet smiles which, during the era of life's romance, overpay every risk, held her hand towards Roland, but without "speaking a word. He kneeled reverently, and kissed it, and Melville again resumed his plea. "Madam," he said, "time presses, and you must not let those boats, which I see they are even now preparing, put forth on the lake.
Then I suppose one cannot overpay one's debt to a physician, for a physician gives life as well as a father; or to a sailor who has saved us when shipwrecked? Yet the benefits bestowed by these and by all the others who give us life in whatever fashion, can be outdone: consequently those of our fathers can be outdone.
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