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I ain't no man-killer, honey." "But you're rich, Jude." "Tolerable. They may be one or two has more than me, around these parts." "And money buys men!" "Don't it, though?" said Jude, expanding. "Why, when they found that I was a spender they started in hounding me. One gent wanted me to help him on a mortgage only fifty bucks to meet a payment.
It's drink will do for him the same as it did for his grandfather, it's in the blood; but that was before your time." "I've heard of him; a remarkably able lawyer, wasn't he?" "Pooh! You'll hear a plenty of nonsense talked, and by very sensible people, too, about most drunken fools! He was a spender and a profligate, was old Marshall Langham; a tavern loafer, but a man of parts.
But they force no one to come; it is a matter for individual decision, and they render a fair equivalent for every cent of money spent; at least, if the spender thinks it is not a fair equivalent he is foolish to go; so why should they not make enough to justify them in giving their time to this work?" "Of course, of course," assented Dr.
"What dinner engagement have you for to-night?" he inquired. "None," replied Bobby, after a moment of hesitation. "Then I want you to dine with me at the Spender. Can you make it?" "I guess so," replied Bobby reluctantly, after another hesitant pause. "What time, say?" "About seven. Just inquire at the desk. I'll have a dining-room reserved."
Thus renovated, and after a delay of some days, caused by trifling mishaps, she left the Cattegat behind and steered a course for British waters. The original plan had been to set a course for Iceland, and, when north of the Shetlands, to turn to the southward to Lough Laxford, the agreed rendezvous with Spender.
But the rest of the sixteen married Soames, Rachel and Cicely of James' family; Eustace and Thomas of Roger's; Ernest, Archibald and Florence of Nicholas'; Augustus and Annabel Spender of the Hayman's were going down the years unreproduced.
She was a born Spender and scattered Cash, her own or other people's, with regal indifference. All her life she had suffered from cramped means, and now that she was about to marry a rich man she meant to get the good of it. What am I doing it for? she would ask herself in her more cynical moments.... As soon as she was Mrs.
"So you've been roughing it out in Nebraska, eh?" "Alaska." "So it was. I always get those places mixed. Come over and have a drink. I want to talk to you. Funny thing, I just met a Klondiker myself this evening. Great chap, too! I want you to know him: he's immense. Only watch out he don't get you full. He's an awful spender. I'm half kippered myself.
For himself, Farmer Wise was an honest, sincere, good-hearted man, a maker of money and a spender thereof witness the fine red ploughs, the painted barns, the handsome team, Kentucky bred, and the inner decorations of his house, situated about five miles out of Ipswich, on the main-road. After Mr.
Though Babbitt admired this savant, and appreciated Sidney Finkelstein as "a mighty smart buyer and a good liberal spender," it was to Vergil Gunch that he turned with enthusiasm. Mr. Gunch was president of the Boosters' Club, a weekly lunch-club, local chapter of a national organization which promoted sound business and friendliness among Regular Fellows.
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