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Upon the whole, it was just as well, for the "old monument" was on her bony knees, with her head and shoulders quite lost in the secret depths of the kitchen range. "I wonder," she was muttering, "where 'e could 'ave put it. It would 'ave been just like that old skinflint to 'ave 'id it in the stove!" The Coming of Elaine
"Here is your humble servant's contribution," said Skinflint, producing his share; "and here is the offering of your loyal village of El Muddee. Did I not before say that enemies and deceivers had maligned me before the august presence, pretending that not a piastre was left in my village, and that my extortion had entirely denuded the peasantry?
"Why, I had a dozen of those this morning. My secretary is making a scrapbook of them." "That one of mine seems pretty definite, doesn't it?" Dredlinton remarked nervously. "Some of mine were uncommonly plain-spoken," Phipps acknowledged, "but what's the odds? You're not a coward, Dredlinton; neither am I. Neither is Skinflint Martin, nor Stanley.
Jaen," continued the Czar, giving a sudden turn to his thoughts, "I will buy your loom, but I will not give more than fifty roubles for it." "Sixty, sixty." "You Satan of a Dutchman! You skinflint! If I offer fifty, that is an honour for you! Indeed it is!" The Czar's anger rose, but it was connected with the adjutant's message, not with the loom. The pot was boiling, and the cover had to fly.
Next to these came the Princess of Lucre with her sly and crafty followers a great many of the brood of Simon Skinflint, money lenders, lawyers, userers, stewards, foresters, harlots, and some of the clergy.
Lovejoy's a bachelor and a skinflint. Those two, Duncan and Lovejoy, are using every means in their power to prevent Worthington from getting that franchise. Have I made myself clear?" "Do you think Mr. Worthington will get it?" asked Wetherell, who had in mind a certain nocturnal visit at his store. Mr. Merrill almost leaped out of his chair at the question.
He'll promise you the moon, and then wriggle out of giving you so much as a star just as Abdul ben Meerza did with me. And upon Miss Morrison asking what he meant by that, he replied, laughingly: 'Ask Van; he knew the old codger better than I knew his whole blessed family, blow him! and was able to talk to the old skinflint in his own outlandish tongue.
It was a skinflint document, and here are a couple of quotations:
Aristus has adopted a very different plan of life. If he is not an egotist, he is, at any rate, an individualist, for he considers expense, seeks only moderate and reasonable enjoyments, thinks of his children's prospects, and, in fact, he economises. And what do people say of him? "What is the good of a rich fellow like him? He is a skinflint.
'Aunty Nomyun or Uncle Nomyun, replied Abe, boiling hot, 'my mother was a Methodist, and I'll back any blanked Methodist against any blankety blank long-faced, lantern-jawed, skinflint Presbyterian, and this he was eager to maintain to any man's satisfaction if he would step outside.
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