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Would he? Well, say he was so anxious to buy it that he wanted to pass over the cash when he saw me counting up my takings in the small hours of the morning. The takings were, I remember, $417. But I told him not to be in a hurry, to go home and sleep over the proposition and come back the next day. After he had gone the collector came around, took his $26.50 and departed.
He must have believed that we would not find out about the drugged water and so would be prepared for any fantasy he cared to produce. When they saw us coming out over the swamp they counted us easy takings. His practice had always been with Khatkans, and he judged us by their reactions to stimuli he knew well how to use. So he failed...." Asaki smiled.
You are so much nicer since Florine has come here." "Come, don't spoil your entry, little one. Quick with you, look sharp, and say, 'Stop, wretched man! nicely, for there are two thousand francs of takings." Lucien was struck with amazement when the girl's whole face suddenly changed, and she shrieked, "Stop, wretched man!" a cry that froze the blood in your veins.
With similar sagacity he had, during his early days in the department, declined altogether to enter into relations with the association, for the reason that he had then been a mere cipher, and would have come in for nothing large in the way of takings; but now well, now it was another matter altogether, and he could dictate what terms he liked.
Thus, though words of solace were vainly uttered in his presence, he found relief in a direction of his own choosing when left to himself. For a man of his habits the house and the hundred and twenty pounds a year which he had inherited from his mother were enough to supply all worldly needs. Resources do not depend upon gross amounts, but upon the proportion of spendings to takings.
Men were lounging everywhere, talking and smoking, or merely sunk in a state of abstraction. The talk was all of digging. The miners were exchanging news, rumour and opinions, and lying about their past takings, or the fabulous patches they had just missed lying patiently and pertinaciously. Many faces were marked and discoloured from recent debauches.
She recalled the exact total of the takings at any given performance in which she was prominent in any city of the United States, and she could also give long extracts from the favourable criticisms of countless important American newspapers, by a singular coincidence only unimportant newspapers had ever mingled blame with their praise of her achievements.
But he had not entered two items in his book of takings when Mr. Selincourt came in hastily, with a worried look on his face. "Have you seen Mary in your travels?" he asked. "No; I didn't even know that Miss Selincourt was at Seal Cove this morning," Jervis answered, looking up from his writing.
Its unity is aboriginal, just as the multiplicity of my successive takings is aboriginal. It comes unbroken as that M, as a singular which I encounter; they come broken, as those takings, as my plurality of operations. The unity and the separateness are strictly co-ordinate.
Each second you hear, 'Miss Witton-Griffiths, forward, and 'Miss Witton-Griffiths, her heinness is waiting for you. In favor am I with the buyer." "Whisper to me your average takings per week," Simon craved. "Not repeat will I." After exaggerating her report, Annie said: "You are going now, then."
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