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Only I'd rather not be put to more expense than I can help." "Just so!" And the worthy solicitor sighed, as he realised that there were no "pickings" to be made out of his present visitor "Have you brought the document with you?" "Yes, sir!"
Ahenobarbus might have his debts paid by his father, and forego risk and crime if he did not absolutely need Drusus's fortune; but Pratinas, she knew, must have planned to secure rich pickings of his own, and if Ahenobarbus married permanently, all these were lost; and the Greeks never turned back or let another turn back, when there was a fortune before them. It was a fearful sort of confidence.
As he had no near relations, he left the whole of his property to her; and having been in India in the days when, under Warren Hastings, there were good pickings to be obtained, it amounted to a handsome fortune.
With him it was: "The king is dead! Long live the king!" He, who had found but poor pickings under the former master dry crust fees for pleadings, demurrers or rejoinders now anticipated generous booty and spoil.
They had carried water in the wagon, and father and son went for wood. Some way down the hill they came upon a gully with some dead brush, and climbed back with this. Supper was eaten on the ground, the horses were watered, given grain, and turned loose to find what pickings they might in the lean growth; and dusk had not turned to dark when the emigrants were in their beds on the soft dust.
So I fled from Baltimore, pretty speeches, and starvation, to San Francisco, plain talk, and pure gold. And now see here, Sir! I carry these always about with me, lest the pretty pickings of this Tom Tiddler's ground should make my experience forget." He drew from his pocket an "illuminated" card, bearing a likeness of Queen Victoria, and a creased and soiled bit of yellow paper.
The books of his father and there were quite a number of them were taboo for a double reason: first, because they were not held safe for him to read, and, secondly, because his father regarded them as his particularly private property that must not be touched by any one else. So he fell back on the old Bible and chance pickings.
"Including your large land purchases and contract concessions in the very country you propose war with," put in the Marquis, "Say that he knew you had resolved on war, and had already started a company for the fabrication of the guns and other armaments, out of which you get the principal pickings what then?" "What then?" echoed Perousse defiantly "Why nothing!
If they hadn't moved the flag two hours ago, I'd have had a three. Now, what do you think of that for rotten luck?" "Lay it dead," said Pickings, anxiously, shaking his head sympathetically. "The green's a bit fast." The put ran slowly up to the hole, and stopped four inches short. "By heavens! why didn't I put over it!" said Booverman, brandishing his putter.
His ambition was to emulate the brilliant Villa. But pickings had been poor of late, no more than that of stealing a few horses from across the border. To Burkhardt, who had heard of him and sought him out, he listened with interest and bargained with zest. Five thousand in gold for fifty men was like pearls from Paradise.
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