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I got to kyar him piece o' dis bread now," and she went off into a dream of what they would do when the big crop on their land should be all in, and the last payment made on the house; of what she would wear, and how she would dress the children, and the appearance she would make at meeting, not reflecting that the sum they had paid for the property had never, even with all their stinting, amounted in any one year to more than a few dollars over the rent charged for the place, and that the eight hundred dollars yet due on it was more than they could make at the present rate in a lifetime.
All this can be easily remedied and will be when the æsthetic taste of the dwellers on the farm comes to be offended by the incongruous and ugly. No stinting in the abundance of food is known on the farm. The farmer supplies the tables of the world, and can himself live off the fat of the land. Grains, vegetables, meats, eggs, butter, milk, and fruits are his stock in trade.
"Oh! she plays perfectly," I rejoined, without stinting my praise. "And besides she puts expression into it," he resumed. "One can see that she feels what she plays." My aunt kissed him for this compliment, which he paid her with the gravest assurance. "Ah! you are still a flatterer!" she said to him.
And he was soon led to believe that Lord L'Estrange had another, more disinterested, and less formidable motive for thus stinting his opportunities to woo the heiress. "Mr.
When the first of the month came round, bank-notes instead of bills came fluttering into the house. No worry, no disputing, no stinting of one's self to be borne with a sigh. With an air of boredom one stuffed his pockets with greenbacks, which were really quite superfluous in this lazy man's paradise that the war had opened up to its vassals.
But their dimensions are not sufficient for sea-going vessels. We must accept a tonnage of not less than 300 tons in order to secure thorough seaworthiness and sufficient coal endurance. "A beginning has been made in the construction of vessels of the type required. To multiply them with no stinting hand is the paramount question of the day in the department of construction.
He thinks it quite natural that I should go on toiling and stinting myself." "Papa, it may be very wrong what he is doing; but if you think he wants to take anything from you " "Hold your tongue," said her father; "I believe in deeds, not in words. He has it in his power to help me, and he chooses instead, for a miserable fantastic notion of his own, to balk all my care for him.
I do all the stinting and make all the sacrifices and your father gets all the respect." "Mamma, how can you say that!" "Because it's a fact. To him it is always, 'Yes, sir, no, sir. I'm going to tell him a few things when he comes home to-night of what I go through with all day in his absence. Elocution lessons! Just you ask him for them yourself." "Oh, mamma, you promised!"
I had nothing else to turn to, so I remained with him, and allowed myself to become his flunkey. But by stinting myself in meat and drink I saved, during my five months of service, some seventy gulden; and one evening, when we were at Baden, I told him that I wished to resign my post, and then hastened to betake myself to roulette. Oh, how my heart beat as I did so!
By extreme stinting she finally saved enough to 'buy him loose' her optimistic way of saying 'pay a lawyer for his defense. Think, after being outcasts all that time, of leading a blind husband through half a hundred miles of wilderness, with the savings of ten years to wager on a chance of having him cleared!" "I hope he was," I declared. "In a sense he was, yes.
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