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The major was more than ever elated that the affair should have taken such a pleasant turn, and bid them fill their glasses, which they were glad enough to do, with renewals at such short intervals that the major, who was not to be outdone in number of glasses, providing his patriotism was pledged in them, found himself in a state of mental configuration, for he saw ghosts and dead warriors by the dozen, all of which he would have sworn, in a court of law, were real flesh and blood.
"There's nothing to tell, or nothing much," replied the local secretary, bitterly. "The business he's been giving us has been dropping off, we haven't got a new risk out of him in a month and we've been losing a lot of our renewals, and yesterday Charlie saw his placer going into the Salamander office with a bundle of binders." "The Salamander? O'Connor!" "Yes, sir, O'Connor.
The armistice was to be continued by brief and repeated renewals, until it should be superseded by the truce of years: Meantime, Archduke Albert sent his father confessor, Inigo Brizuela, to Spain, in order to make the treaty posed by Jeannin palatable to the king?
And even if we put on one side the burden of the internal debt, which amounts to 24 milliards of marks, as being a question of internal distribution rather than of productivity, we must still allow for the foreign debt incurred by Germany during the war, the exhaustion of her stock of raw materials, the depletion of her live-stock, the impaired productivity of her soil from lack of manures and of labor, and the diminution in her wealth from the failure to keep up many repairs and renewals over a period of nearly five years.
"Seven hundred and fifty pounds, with interest." "And there are others?" "Yes; three more all renewals." "And the total sum? Can you give it to me?" "What's the use?" Bertie muttered. "But if you want to know " He took a bit of paper from his pocket. "I counted it up yesterday," he added. "I can't get clear of the Jews for less than twenty-five hundred pounds." "It's a heavy sum!"
He positively cherished in fact, as against the too inveterate gesture of distressfully guarding his eyeballs so many New York aspects seemed to keep him at it an ideal of adjusted appreciation, of courageous curiosity, of fairly letting the world about him, a world of constant breathless renewals and merciless substitutions, make its flaring assault on its own inordinate terms.
The birth of a son, who was diplomatically called Alexander, was taken by the old man as a compliment, and we find Boswell visiting at Auchinleck, 'not long at one time, but frequent renewals of attention are agreeable, he finds, to his father. He proposed to Johnson a tour round the English cathedrals, but a brief trip with him to Derbyshire was all that resulted.
Still, these renewals never gave quite such perfect fruit as grew upon vigorous young trees, just come to full bearing. Here or there a plantation owner like my starch and stately grandfather, turned surplus peaches into brandy.
Without this national as well as individual bankruptcy must ensue. Undue inflation, on the other hand, while it might give temporary relief, would only lead to inflation of prices, the impossibility of competing in our own markets for the products of home skill and labor, and repeated renewals of present experiences.
Such new housing and repairs as are necessary are tinder way and the 6-year program in aviation is being put into effect in both branches of our service. Our Navy, according to generally accepted standards, is deficient in cruisers. We have 10 comparatively new vessels, 22 that are old, and 8 to be built. It is evident that renewals and replacements must be provided.
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