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But she was only allowed to taste of this blessedness, for she had soon to learn that even giving itself must be given away cheerfully. After three months Bruce called again with the quarter's interest.
"One moment!" interrupted the prince. "First let me ask a question. How much have you left of my wife's quarterly allowance that I sent her by you?" "That is exactly what I was going to speak to you about," returned the young man. "I have to ask you for the next quarter's allowance also." "Indeed! And must you have it immediately?" "If you please."
Here I left Gregory, and I by coach back again to Sir Philip Warwicke's, and in the Park met him walking, so discoursed about the business of striking a quarter's tallys for Tangier, due this day, which he hath promised to get my Lord Treasurer's warrant for, and so away hence, and to Mr. Hales, to see what he had done to Mrs.
"Sure thing!" says I. "Here's a half get a good pair this time." "No, Son," says he, "a quarter's all they cost, and Jim Isham never takes more'n his due. Just wait till I git out the change." So I stands there lookin' him over while he unwraps about four yards of fishline from around the neck of a leather money pouch. Odd old Rube he was, straight and lean, and smoked up like a dried herring.
Up betimes and among my joyners, and to my office, where the joyners are also laying mouldings in the inside of my closet. Then abroad and by water to White Hall, and there got Sir G. Carteret to sign me my last quarter's bills for my wages, and meeting with Mr.
The little money Duval had brought from Paris was now exhausted; and when the day on which he had been in the habit of receiving his quarter's pension came round, Louise was unable even to conjecture how it was to be applied for.
Is your name, too, upon that long roll of those who are pledged to assist his country?" "It is," he admitted. She drew a little away. "You admit it? You have already consented?" "I have drawn a quarter's salary," Norgate confessed. "I have entered Selingman's corps of the German Secret Service." "You mean that you are a traitor!" she exclaimed.
'Oh, I know you've become a regular Communist, she said sullenly at last, drying her eyes in haste. Well, I tell you, I must have a hundred pounds. I can't do with a penny less than that. He tried to get out of her for what precise purposes she wanted it, and whether her husband had stolen from her the whole of the quarter's allowance he had just sent her.
Whatever may have been his fancied objection that is the time we disappeared and were not heard of for near a twelvemonth. Wondering now I was how we should last until the next quarter's allowance. We always had lasted, but each time it was a different way.
There is no difficulty about the money at all. My son only wanted you to wait till his quarter's allowance came. I have the money here in notes. If you would count it...." She was playing a mother's part well; and she rejoiced because the jeweller's eyes were examining with approval and conviction her beautiful clothes.
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