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"I suppose he's been so busy hunting another dirty cargo for us he hadn't time to think of the vessel," Mr. Murphy sneered, and added: "The dirty old skin-flint!" "Well, I'll just tell Cappy Ricks where to head in!" Matt stormed. "Let him fire me if he wants to. I don't care to sail a ship particularly a dirty ship for any man who thinks I don't know my business.

When the old lady took her off at the bottom, with a good motherly hug, 'Good, thinks I; 'what more do you want?" "A snug little property wouldn't a ben bad, I reckon," said Flint. "Well, she had it, old skin-flint, though I didn't know or care about it then. What a jolly row she'd make if she knew I was tellin' the ladder part of the story!

They were uncurtained, too, every one, and grimed with dust: and through this dust we could see rows of cast-off suits dangling within like limp suicides. "Very odd," commented Mr. Trapp. "You're sure he said five o'clock?" "Sure," said I. "Besides five o'clock or six why can't the old skin-flint answer?" He knocked again vigorously.

"That woman is a skin-flint and I don't propose to let her beat me. No doubt she was glad to get four-fifty last fall. She's only trying to see if she can wring me for a dollar more. If I have to board all next summer, I shall have to watch every penny, or I'll not come out even, let alone saving anything.

A brig is only allowed two lieutenants. The master was a rough, kind-hearted, intelligent young man, always in good humour. The surgeon and purser completed our mess; they were men of no character at all, except, perhaps, that the surgeon was too much of a courtier, and the purser too much of a skin-flint; but pursers are, generally speaking, more sinned against than sinning.

To each man one soul only is given; to each soul only is given a little power the power at some moments to outgrow and swallow up the stars. If age after age that power comes upon men, whatever gives it to them is great. Whatever makes men feel old is mean an empire or a skin-flint shop. Whatever makes men feel young is great a great war or a love-story.

"It would have been long," said Oldbuck, with much self-complacency, "ere my womankind could have made such a reasonable bargain with that old skin-flint, though they sometimes wrangle with her for an hour together under my study window, like three sea-gulls screaming and sputtering in a gale of wind. But come, wend we on our way to Knockwinnock."

"Let me have a shake of your fist, sir," he said, seizing the hand of "the Golden Shoemaker." "You're a model landlord. No offence; but it's hard to believe that you're anyways related to that 'ere old skin-flint as was owner here afore you."

I wasted the substance he left me, alas! And lavished it freely on these and on those, Till for need I was minded to sell the fair maid, Though sorely I grudged at the parting, God knows! But lo! when the crier 'gan call her for sale, A scurvy old skin-flint to bid for her chose.

Everything in it had grown grimacing and alien, and each strange insistent object seemed craning forward from its place to hear him. "It was I who put the stuff in the melon," he said. "And I don't want you to think I'm sorry for it. This isn't 'remorse, understand. I'm glad the old skin-flint is dead I'm glad the others have their money. But mine's no use to me any more.