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A close-fisted, tight-lipped Mormon a skinflint if I ever saw one! Just look him over." Shefford had been looking, and considered it unlikely that he would ever forget this individual called Waggoner. He seemed old, sixty at least, yet at that only in the prime of a wonderful physical life.
"At the next step, when I ultimately concluded to act upon my right to eject Mr. Maxwell from the rectory, I've no doubt that on all sides it was: 'Well, did you ever know the likes of that? Turning the rector out of house and home! Well he's a skinflint for fair!" He paused and watched the effect. This time his hearers sat absolutely motionless.
My, what rogues these moneybags are!" he said. "You have seen that fellow; he is worth twelve millions, and is the meanest skinflint I ever met." Nekhludoff felt an irresistible loathing toward this ready talker who, by his tone of voice, meant to show that he and Nekhludoff belonged to a different sphere than the other clients. "He worried me to death. He is an awful rogue.
When Daniel endeavoured to put a stop to her wastefulness, she went to Philippina and complained. Philippina encouraged her. “Don’t you let him get away with anything,” said she, “let him feel that a woman with your beauty didn’t have to marry a skinflint.”
She was truly royal, and wholly deceitful; self-controlled at times, and madly passionate at others; a lover of pure literature, and yet terribly free in her own writings; kind to her dependants, yet capable of aiming a violent blow at some courtier whom she had caressed a moment before the blow came; an icy virgin, and a confirmed and audacious flirt; a generous mistress, and an odious miser; a free giver to those near her, and a skinflint who let the sailors who saved her country lie rotting to death in the open streets of Ramsgate because she could not find in her heart to give them either medical attendance or shelter.
The boys who all had nicknames, called him "Skinflint," but Jack did not care as long as the old tobacco-pouch in which he kept his money grew heavier and heavier. He established a sort of auction-room, and now and then sold off all the odds and ends he had collected, or helped the lads exchange things with one another.
Nathan was a "damned old skinflint who lived across the mountain on Stone Creek who stole other folks' farms and if he knew anything about Chad the old hunter would squeeze it out of his throat; and if old Nathan, learning where Chad now was, tried to pester him he would break every bone in the skinflint's body."
Called by messenger just as I turned in at that confounded tavern, charged full price for a night's lodging, curse that skinflint Hodges! and took a coach that brought me to Salem as fast as it could clip over the road. I'm too fat to straddle a horse. Come, where's Hamlin and that young scamp of yours?"
"Her old skinflint of a father cut down the cedar which I loved best in the whole forest, and made a chest of it to hold his money in; besides, I never liked the princess everybody praised her so. But come, we shall be too late for the last dance." When they were gone, Fairyfoot could sleep no more with astonishment.
"He heard!" the footman said. "Well, and if he did, so much the worser, or rather so much the better," retorted Madeleine. "He is an arrant skinflint." Poor Pons had lost none of the talk in the kitchen; he heard it all, even to the last word. He made his way home along the boulevards, in the same state, physical and mental, as an old woman after a desperate struggle with burglars.
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