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The warm welcome he received on reaching Madame Hanska's residence made him so sanguine that he wrote to Froment-Meurice, his jeweller in Paris, asking that the cornaline cup might be sent him which had been on order for the past two years. The jeweller was evidently not anxious to oblige such a bad payer.

Royston shook his head impatiently; he was too proud to save his credit by dissembling a defeat; and his reply was quick and decisive. "Vous me flattez, M. le Vicomte. Quand on perd, on doit, au moins l'avouer loyalement, et payer l'en jeu. Cette fois j'ai tant perdu, que je ne prendrai pas la revanche."

God has commanded in His Word, "Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work; but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work." No man, no boy, can continually break the Sabbath day and get away with it. Sooner or later he will come to sorrow because of it. Fellows, God is the best "payer" that ever promised.

Telegraphic inquiries had been already made which showed that Marx knew nothing of his customer save that he was a good payer. Odds and ends, some pipes, a few novels, two of them in Spanish, and old-fashioned pinfire revolver, and a guitar were among the personal property. "Nothing in all this," said Baynes, stalking, candle in hand, from room to room. "But now, Mr.

He should have brought the ransom himself; 'and the great Sheikh sent two curling streams out of his nostrils. 'Whoever be the bearer, he is the payer, said Eva. 'It is he who is the prisoner, not this son of Franguestan, who, you think, is your captive. 'Your father wishes to scrape my piastres, said the great Sheikh, in a stern voice, and looking his granddaughter full in the face.

"Nothing then remained," says Burton, "but payer d'audace, and, throwing all forethought to the dogs, to rely upon what has made many a small man great, the good star. I addressed my companions in a set speech, advising a mount without delay." The End of Time, having shown the white feather, was left behind, but the rest courageously consented to accompany their leader.

Captain Carlsen was pilot, Captain Weyprecht commanded, and Lieutenant Payer was the land explorer. The Tegethoff left Bremen on the 13th of June, 1872, and came in sight of Novaya Zemlya on the 29th of July. In August the Jabjorn yacht joined company; but little in the way of exploration was undertaken until August, when the yacht, with Count Wilczek, left the Tegethoff to her own devices.

Anozzer skonk treeck, hein?" The just complaint of Mr. Grunch, income tax payer, as imparted to me over his own port wine, after dinner. "No, I shouldn't want to complain: I mean, in any way that would reach the outside, reach it, that is, in connection with my name. Though I think that the thing ought to be said by SOMEBODY. I think you might say it.

A great glacier was crossed, but as it was quitted an immense fissure engulfed the sleigh with the stores, while the others only narrowly escaped by cutting the traces. Lieutenant Payer hurried back for assistance, and at length dogs, men, and sleigh were pulled up, safe and nearly sound. Rounding Auk Cape, the explorers reached open water by the shore.

In Mme. de Brecourt's eyes this pair were very shabby, they didn't payer de mine they fairly smelt of their province; "but for the reality of the thing," she often said to herself, "they're worth all of us. We're diluted and they're pure, and any one with an eye would see it." "The thing" was the legitimist principle, the ancient faith and even a little the right, the unconscious, grand air.

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