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Herbert drew near, and told his story. Ralph listened attentively. "Boy," said he, "I think you are honest. There are not many that can be said of. As for Abner Holden, I know him. He's a mean skinflint. Pah!" and he spit, contemptuously. "You'd better not go back to him." "I don't mean to," said Herbert, promptly. "What are your plans? Have you formed any?" "I want to go to New York."
But I stuck to my bubble and wasn't to be guyed out of the idea, and finally he lit a cigar and started, in to bargain. Pa is the worst old skinflint in Connecticut, and never even gave me a bag of peanut candy without getting a double equivalent. First of all, I had to give up Lewis Wentz entirely; I wasn't to speak to him, or bow or bubble or dance or anything.
Apparently this pleased such of the servants as had anything to gain by it the housekeeper in particular for Alma was no skinflint and she was making my husband's money flow like water, but it was less agreeable to my maid, who said: "This is a nice place to be sure, where the mistress takes no interest in anything, and the guest walks over everybody.
Things were scattered all over the ground, and some of 'em floating down the creek I could see in the moonlight. 'Serves you right, you old skinflint, I said to myself. 'But it's none of your business. So I turned about and went back to the road. Couldn't help feeling kinda glad about it." He paused and drew a deep, painful breath. "I guess it's all just retribution.
How ready people had been to trust her in the village! How tempting it had been to brag and make a mystery! That old skinflint, Mrs. Moulsey, at "the shop," she had been all sugar and sweets then. And a few weeks later six, seven weeks later about the beginning of October, these halcyon days had all come to an end.
"Do they live there alone?" "Yes, quite alone. They rent the place from Père Didon. He owns most of the houses in this street, you know, and is a regular skinflint. He won't let any one get behind with their rent for an hour.
He had been widely exploited as a "character"; in reality he had been a merciless old skinflint, with a supreme disregard for the rights or pleasures of others. Still, it is not to be denied that his eccentricity did reveal itself in certain ways.
"It is a pity that that old skinflint should be in the way of both your fortunes; and he about to fling you over, too!" Mrs. Catherine retired musing, as Mr. Billings had previously done; a sweet smile of contentment lighted up the venerable features of Doctor Wood, and he walked abroad into the streets as happy a fellow as any in London.
A year later I was compelled to complain. "Charley," said I, "you are a wicked old fraud, a miserly skinflint, a miserable land-crab. Behold, your share for the year in all our partnership has been thousands of dollars. The head clerk has given me this paper. It says that in the year you have drawn just eighty-seven dollars and twenty cents." "Is there any owing me?" he asked anxiously.
But oh! what a grudge I would have owed that skinflint brother of ours" here she shook her fist at the picture "for making our good luck depend upon our arrival within two short strokes of the clock!" "There are several to come yet," blandly observed the lawyer.
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