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Updated: May 6, 2025
Never before in her wanderings had she got so completely in touch with her surroundings. But from habit she always talked of moving. She could never pass an empty house without going through it, sniffing the drains, and requesting the landlord to make certain improvements, with the mania of women who haunt the shops with empty purses, pricing expensive materials.
They bought their sides of bacon and their pounds of coffee as merrily as if they were playing a game of forfeits, the women fingering the calico they did not want for the joy of pricing and making shoppers’ talk. The scene had a scriptural flavor that not even the blue overalls of the men nor the calico gowns of the women could altogether eliminate.
Ellis gravely informed them that she soon expected to be her own housekeeper, for that she had detected Caddy and Kinch in a furniture establishment, pricing a chest of drawers and a wash-stand; and that Kinch had unblushingly told her they had for some time been engaged to be married, but somehow or other had forgotten to mention it to her.
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"Been pricing flats around Morningside. You want to start untying those apron strings and unpinning that cap, old girl." "Oh, Tommy!" said Celia, with her broadest smile. "Won't that be enough? I got Betty to show me how to make a cottage pudding. I guess we could call it a flat pudding if we wanted to." "And tell no lie," said Thomas.
"After pricing every locket in the case, he seized the first one, handed me twenty dollars, and now refuses to give it up, although he knows the price is twenty-seven." "Then?" "Then I locked the door, sir. He sat down there, and hasn't moved since." Mr. Judson looked again at Mr. Bass; this time with unmistakable interest. The other customer began to laugh, and the crowd was pressing in, and Mr.
This was the best store we had come across yet; it had everything in it, in small quantities, from anvils and drygoods all the way down to fish and pinchbeck jewelry. I concluded I would bunch my whole invoice right here, and not go pricing around any more. So I got rid of Marco, by sending him off to invite the mason and the wheelwright, which left the field free to me.
And not the least part of the treasure lay in the arms, which were almost beyond our pricing, so good were they, whether mail or helm or weapon. Yet none were better than those Gerda had given us yesterday in our need. "It is no small treasure which you have made me keep," Gerda said somewhat sadly, as we set the last of the chests in their hiding.
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He could almost remember Marengo or was it Austerlitz? There was a vague but not distressing uncertainty as to which of these conflicts he had directed, but he could almost remember. And he had been one who commanded, and who, therefore, would make nothing of pricing a dog.
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