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While this removal was being effected with as much damage to the house and the article as if it were a quarter-day affair in England, the other chief arrived. He had been sent for, being away down the river fishing when we arrived. I saw at once he was a very superior man to any of the chiefs I had yet met with.
I never said a word to him " "There you see you are lending!" He clutched his hair. "We've got to have this out," he added. "Not by the roots! Oh! you do look funny. I've never seen you with your hair untidy. Oh! oh!" Bob Pillin rose and paced the room. Then coming to a halt he said: "Suppose I am lending money to your mother, what does it matter? It's only till quarter-day.
The first quarter's rent was duly paid, but the second quarter-day brought no cheque; and, after the lapse of a fortnight, Miss Shepperson wrote to make known her ingenuous fear that Mr. Rymer's letter might have miscarried. At once there came the politest and friendliest reply. Mr. Still the cheque did not come; another quarter-day arrived, and again no rent was paid.
'Wotever is, is right, as the young nobleman sweetly remarked wen they put him down in the pension list 'cos his mother's uncle's vife's grandfather vunce lit the king's pipe vith a portable tinder-box. 'Not a bad notion that, Sam, said Mr. Bob Sawyer approvingly. 'Just wot the young nobleman said ev'ry quarter-day arterwards for the rest of his life, replied Mr. Weller.
Not otherwise." "I am very fond of three hundred a year," said Norris, "but I cannot pay the price required. I shall not have the pleasure of seeing you again." "You must please yourself," said the lawyer. "Fail to be here next quarter-day, and the thing stops. But I warn you, and I mean the warning in a friendly spirit.
No doubt you owe your tailor, say a year's account, and then your rooms are pretty expensive, and quarter-day has a spiteful habit of swooping down on one four times a year, and and you mustn't have to bother your pretty head about all these sordid things." This was somewhat of an appalling speech for Morgan, who certainly did not want to cheat his creditors.
The material universe is infinitely divisible, and so is the texture of human affairs. We take things in the gross or in the detail, according to the occasion. I think I could as soon get up the budget of Ways and Means for the current year, as be sure of making both ends meet, and paying my rent at quarter-day in a paltry huckster's shop.
It's very odd now, what can have put that in my head! I recollect dining once at Mrs Bevan's, in that broad street round the corner by the coachmaker's, where the tipsy man fell through the cellar-flap of an empty house nearly a week before the quarter-day, and wasn't found till the new tenant went in and we had roast pig there.
"I am an old yachtsman," said Norris; "and I must do the best I can. A fellow can't live in New South Wales upon diplomacy. But the point I wish to prepare you for is this. It will be impossible I should present myself here next quarter-day; we expect to make a six months' cruise of it among the islands." "Sorry, Mr. Carthew: I can't hear of that," replied the lawyer.
So she took out of her pocket the magic fish-bone, that had been dried and rubbed and polished till it shone like mother-of-pearl; and she gave it one little kiss, and wished it was quarter-day. And immediately it WAS quarter-day; and the king's quarter's salary came rattling down the chimney, and bounced into the middle of the floor.
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