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But Ma selig always had everything she wanted. Say, when a man marries it's different. He begins to save." "There!" said Effie quickly. "That's just it. Twenty years ago I'd have been glad and willing to start like that, saving and scrimping and loving a man, and looking forward to the time when four figures showed up in the bank account where but three bloomed before.
"All right," she agreed with a doleful glance toward the particular blue plate in which she was accustomed to pour her share of the delicacy. "Anyway the doctor calls fudge an 'abomination. Bea will scold because she hates scrimping. But then she doesn't care so much as we do for music unless it is convenient."
And what he makes, he keeps. He's a close-fisted old hunks." "And what is he so scrimping and saving for?" asked a third. "He is unmarried he has no children." "No but he is to be married," said the first. "How! the man's past sixty." "Yes, comrade, but he will not be the first old fellow who has taken a young wife in his dotage.
Only I do wish my Carl could have experienced those joys a little longer. It was so good so good, while it lasted! And it was only just starting. Every new call he got to another university was at a salary from one to two thousand dollars more than what we were getting, even at Seattle. It looked as if our days of financial scrimping were gone forever.
Dexie awaited his return with much anxiety, for the expenses of the funeral, together with their necessary mourning, left little ready money to meet the daily expenses, and it was only by the strictest economy that she managed at all. Her "scrimping," as Gussie called it, met with no favor from anyone; and though Mrs.
With every pound he could scrimp and save he bought shares in the mines and believed in them absolutely. And he went on scrimping and saving and buying shares so as to have as large a stake in the silver future as possible. He got no return as yet from his investment, indeed. But that would come all right in time, and the more shares he could get hold of the larger the ultimate return would be.
As the heaping plate of beans for the waitress had not been scrimping in her measure was set before Bob, together with the rich brown bread and coffee, it seemed to him that never had anything smelled quite so savory, and he began to eat as though he were famished.
Winthrop Adams would see it paid. Betty was quite overwhelmed. "I ought to give half of it to mother!" she cried. "No, no. Your mother will have all she needs. The Mannings would borrow it of her to buy more ground with. I've no patience with all their scrimping, and sometimes I give thanks that poor Elizabeth is out of it all.
I bit my tongue lest it should say something, and went back to Sarah. "Suppose Miss Elliott takes charge of the housekeeping, and I have nothing to do with it, will you stay?" "Indeed, and I won't then. I can't bear her, and I won't put up with her nasty, scrimping, pinching ways!" "Very well. Then you will have to go," I said, with great dignity, though just ready to cry.
I wonder what she'd say to wearing a black alpaca dress seven years running, for her best dress! I declared, it made me feel as if there wa'n't any sort of use scrimping and saving as we do, to pay fifteen dollars a year to support the minister; I told John we better not pay but five next year, and I'd put the other ten on my back. He's got a rich wife, he don't need much salary now.
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