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"And if any other marries her," Asgill said quietly, "he will want her rights." "Well, and do you think," the younger man answered in his ugliest manner, "that if it weren't for that small fact, Mister Asgill " "And the small fact," Asgill struck in, "that before your grandfather died I lent you a clear five hundred, and I'm to take that, that's my own already, in quittance of all!"
Young Marcovich owed Young Dick two dollars, and Young Dick accepted the payment of a dollar and forty cents as full quittance of the debt. Also, with shyness and perturbation, Young Dick wandered down Montgomery Street and vacillated among the many pawnshops that graced that thoroughfare.
And when I'm done, Black Roger shall hang what's left of thee, ere he go to feed my hounds. That big body o' thine shall rot above my gate, and for that golden head ha! I'll send it to Duke Ivo in quittance for his gallows! Yet first O, first shalt thou sigh that death must needs be so long a-coming!"
I have brought thee to the bazar for quittance of mine oath; now get thee home and thwart me no more as is thy wont. Woe to thee! do I need thy price, that I should sell thee? The furniture of my house would fetch thy value many times over!" When Al-Mu'in saw this he said to Nur al-Din, "Out on thee! Hast thou anything left for selling or buying?"
And I opened the door. "But you have not told me all." "You had better not wait until I do tell you all. Such extra communicativeness could give you no pleasure. March!" "Cross thing!" said she; but she obeyed: and, indeed, the first classe was my territory, and she could not there legally resist a notice of quittance from me.
"Bear with me," he said, "my good lord, we citizens are a wary and thrifty generation; and I should lose my good name for ever within the toll of Paul's, were I to grant quittance, or take acknowledgment, without bringing the money to actual tale. I think it be right now and, body of me," he said, looking out at the window, "yonder come my boys with my mule; for I must Westward Hoe.
And therefore I trust that you will now deliver me these 200 florins to his Imperial Majesty's order and quittance, that so I may receive a fitting reward and satisfaction for my care, pains, and work as, no doubt, was his Imperial Majesty's intention.
I have set some of my rogues to dig rabbits; but as I live, young Colbrand, you may thank your stars that you are alive to-day to eat. Poor young Cheek Sir John Cheek, the grammarian's son got his quittance last night by a Spanish pike, rushing headlong on, just as you did. But have you seen your prisoner?" "No; nor shall, while he is in Winter's tent." "Why not, then?
Up came Montrose on the instant, and he was the first to give us a civil look. But for him we had no doubt got a short quittance from MacColkitto, who was for the tow gravatte on the spot Instead we were put on parole when his lordship learned we had been Cavaliers of fortune.
"I am entitled to them a spear on a bend sable, and a falcon for my crest; but we have not yet applied to the heralds for the confirmation. And you, sir?" "He writes himself armigero in any bill, warrant, quittance, or obligation," here put in Davy the serving man. "Ah, that I do! and have done any time these three hundred years."
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