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But among the criers who passed backwards and forwards with several sorts of goods, offering to sell them, he was not a little surprised to see one who held in his hand an ivory tube, of about a foot in length, and about an inch thick, which he cried at forty purses. If he is not, I am much deceived."
Even Franz von Sickingen, known sometimes as the "last flower of German chivalry," boasted of having among the intimate associates of his enterprise for the rehabilitation of the knighthood many gentlemen who had been accustomed to "let their horses on the high road bite off the purses of wayfarers."
I trembled to think of the ruined purses this day's performances might result in. I could not help reflecting bodingly upon the intemperate zeal with which middle-aged men are apt to surfeit themselves upon a seductive folly which they have tasted for the first time. And yet I did not feel that I had a right to be surprised at the state of things which was giving me so much concern.
The three then took generous tips from their purses, and put the money in the hand of their host. "Will you please give this to Letta and Peter?" they asked. "Certainly, certainly! and I thank you in their names for it. And now, boys, you will have to walk several miles to reach the little village where Fritz's father said you would stay over night on your way home."
So she will miss her offering; her people will bleed in their purses; and I, being quits with both, will leave Ambialet the way I came. "'You call that being quits, Master Tibbald? said the Viscount, musing. 'Truly, you are not vindictive! "'A merchant, my lord, has a merchant's way of looking at such affairs, answered Tibbald.
The experiment succeeded, and the prince, after he had counted out to the crier forty purses, and the other had delivered the apple to him, waited with the greatest impatience for the first caravan that should return to the Indies.
For example Charles Calvert, governor of Maryland, had already written Lord Baltimore in 1664: "I have endeavored to see if I could find as many responsible men that would engage to take 100 or 200 neigros every year from the Royall Company at that rate mentioned in your lordship's letter; but I find that we are nott men of estates good enough to undertake such a buisnesse, but could wish we were for we are naturally inclined to love neigros if our purses could endure it."
"Hand over then," said the sergeant, and we lightened our purses tremendously. "That's right," said Lomax. "Now about the pay for the lessons. I want that in advance." "Oh!" we both ejaculated in dismay. "We can't pay now, Lom," said Mercer, "but we will." "Yes, you can." "But how?" "Give me your fists, both of you, in a hearty soldier's grip, my lads.
In Russia the peasantry frequently carry a nut in their purses, from a belief that it will act as a charm in their efforts to make money.
"Why, what can be worse than cutting our throats?" she asked, with pretty naive surprise. "Cutting our purses," he answered. "Man is so made these days that his capacity for living is determined by the money he possesses." "'Who steals my purse steals trash," she quoted. "Who steals my purse steals my right to live," was the reply, "old saws to the contrary.
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