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Come to my room and I'll bandage your hands. I'm not afraid of lockjaw, but you can't go about any longer like that. Then we must get a clean cloth, and begin again." Poor Maud! She set her lips and went through the new duties without shirking or skimping, resolutely avoiding a look into the garden.
I know in my own case that I very often find myself ah skimping, so to speak; I mean going over a thing without really getting the ah the meat out of it. I'm almost certain that if you really settled your mind on this, Edwards, that you'd get along very well with it. Suppose now that you give twice as much time to it to-night as you usually do.
But they had involved some contrivance and labour, some skimping of pocket money, and much delightful cloud-building as to the effect on their enraptured recipient.
I'll wager you a nickel that before we leave, she comes over here and offers me the room at the same price she got last winter." "I hope you are right," said Adam. "How do you like her?" "Got a grouch, nasty temper, mean disposition; clean house, good room, good cook maybe; lives just on the edge of comfort by daily skimping," summarized Kate. "If she comes, are you going to try it?" asked Adam.
Merle filtered coins through his fingers for the wondrous feel of them. "Well, mebbe we better," he said at last. "How much do we get?" demanded Wilbur, exalted but still sane. "Oh, a lot!" said the girl, carelessly. Plainly she was not one to haggle. "Here, I'll give you two double handfuls see, like that," and she measured the price into the other cap, not skimping.
But they had involved some contrivance and labour, some skimping of pocket money, and much delightful cloud-building as to the effect on their enraptured recipient.
There is no greater mistake than skimping your work BECAUSE YOU ARE WORKING FOR ANOTHER, AND FEAR YOU MAY DO TOO MUCH. For your own sake remember that whatever you do in the way of honest concentrated work you do FIRST OF ALL FOR YOURSELF. Only one thing in the world can improve you and better your condition, and that thing is your own effort.
Comstock stared at the total with dazed and unbelieving eyes. Through her sick heart rushed the realization, that if she merely had stood before that wicket and asked one question, she would have known that all those bitter years of skimping for Elnora and herself had been unnecessary. She arose and went back to the depot. "I want to send a message," she said.
The money was yours and you had a right to spend it as you chose, but the debts will be ours. The skimping and saving will fall on me as much as on you, and skimping makes people mean and penurious. Promise me you won't go into debt without telling me again." "Forget it, little woman," John replied, patting her face and kissing it many times. "I'll never do anything to disgrace you."
While she gloried in her skill in filching from the pig what would serve the chickens, in making Jenny go short to save to-day's baking of havre-bread, in skimping Tim's bowl of porridge his appetite being a burden on her estate which she often declared would break her she had more than once given a hundred pounds at a blow to build a raft for a poor drowning wretch who must otherwise have sunk.
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