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'You'd better make haste, sir, said Mrs. Sims, 'for I must leave on Thursday, and now it's Saturday night. There's not overmuch time for everything although, indeed, Mrs. Graham, that goes out charing, might come in and make you your meals for a week, though it will cost you half a quarter's salary, charing is that expensive in these parts.
Contracts of leases are also entered, and in the case of farms being taken, caution-money, amounting generally to a quarter's rent, must be deposited with the authorities." "One more question. Are there no entailed estates amongst your aristocracy?" "Very few, indeed, even among the richest aristocracy.
"This is to be your home now, Nannie, and you may be sure I'll help you to be somebody if you'll help yourself;" and, turning to the woman, he told her the reason of the child's pitiable condition, and payed her in advance a quarter's rent, giving her also some money with which to procure a dry suit for the children; and then he departed to send the few articles of furniture from their former abode, to which he added a bedstead and bedding, a nice cooking-stove, a couple of chairs, and a few other conveniences.
"I can only say, that either Kitty leaves the house, or I do. Which is it to be, Mr. Caudle? Eh? "But you're not going to get rid of me in that manner, I can tell you. But for that trollop now, you may swear and rave as you like "Very well; it's no matter what you say her quarter's up on Tuesday, and go she shall. A soup-plate and a basin went yesterday.
In their command of the pianissimo and the gradual crescendo, and in the precision of their attack, the Portland singers can easily teach the Handel and Haydn a quarter's lessons.
I have sent in my quarter's accounts, and in a month the payments will begin to come in. I'll make a good business yet." "I believe you will." "What a pretty room!" said Rachel, looking round. "How nice it is to know you are comfortable; by the time you are tired of your secretaryship, I hope to have a nice little sum laid by for you."
"Not so bad as that; I have just paid the rent of the baraque for three months in advance, and there is your quarter's pay, in advance also. My kind regards to Madame, and tell her to keep your skin safe from the schemes of these lunatics." Thrusting some pieces of gold into the hands of the porter, Lebeau nodded his adieu, and hastened along his way.
Mr Gardiner was so kind as to ask me to dine with him to-day: so you see there was no danger of my being solitary, much less, melancholy. "But now to my business, for even to-day I have business to write about. You know when I arrived here, at Midsummer, Mr Gardiner paid me my first quarter's salary in advance: he bid me not mention the circumstance, for fear of others expecting the same favour.
That fool, that idiot, Jane" and she stamped her little foot upon the pavement "has upset the mummy hyacinth-pot and broken the flower off just as it was coming into bloom. I have given her a quarter's wages and her passage back to England, and packed her off." "Why, Mildred," remonstrated Miss Terry, "what a fuss to make about a flower!" She turned on her almost fiercely.
THE MISTRESS. I should like to see something the Parson does n't hate to have come. MANDEVILLE. Except his quarter's salary; and the meeting of the American Board. THE FIRE-TENDER. I don't see that we are getting any nearer the solution of the original question. The world is evidently interested in events simply because they are recent.
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