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"Major," she said, "I think I'd like that cigarette now." He came over and lit one for her. Trigger thanked him and puffed. And she'd almost spilled everything, she was thinking. The paid-up reservation. Every last thing. "I'd like to get it straight," she said. "What you're talking about sounds like it's a mind-search job, Holati." "It's in that class," he said.
He says Elijah says set him up the press an' he don't ask no better fun than to live on bread an' water while he jumps from peak to peak of fame, but Mr. Kimball says Elijah's young an' limber an' he shall want the paid-up subscriptions himself afore he begins to transport a printin' press around the country.
I notice that the paid-up capital of registered companies alone, which was 1,013 millions sterling in 1893, has grown naturally and healthily to 2,123 millions sterling in 1908.
She was in love with her match just as farmers are in love with wheat at eighty shillings a quarter; or shareholders innocent gudgeons with seven and half per cent. interest on their paid-up capital.
There would be such a mass of stock! 'You have to back that with a certain amount of paid-up capital? 'We take care, sir, in the West not to cripple commerce too closely by old-fashioned bandages. Look at what we've done already, sir, by having our limbs pretty free. Look at our line, sir, right across the continent, from San Francisco to New York. Look at 'Never mind that, Mr Fisker.
He put his money everywhere, did that old man. There are shares in iron mines in the Alleghanies, worth ever so much." "They are no good to us," said the Solicitor-General, alluding to his client's interests. "Not worth a halfpenny to us, though they are paying twenty per cent. on the paid-up capital. He seems to have determined that the real heir should get nothing, even if there were no will.
"Say, how long do you think you're a paid-up subscriber to this little daily speech of mine?... Well, if I've got to hand you another copy, here goes. You promised me, on your word of honor, if George swung around for suffrage, you'd swing around for me. Well, George has come around. Not that I had much to do with it but he surely did come around!
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