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Charles met the eye of the timber-merchant, and was unexpectedly mute. 'Well, sir, said Mr. Lott, regarding him fixedly, 'and what have you to say to me? 'Only that my time is too valuable to be wasted, continued the other, with an impatient gesture. 'Be good enough to leave my house. 'Mr. Lott, said the tailor in an exhausted voice, 'I apologise to you for my son's rudeness.
He is sometimes at work on his uncle's farm at Vatteville, and when he falls out with his uncle and tires of Vatteville he comes across the Seine and gets employed by Léon Roussel, the chief timber-merchant of Aubette.
That is to say, the German preposition auf was employed instead of an. A mistake which even an elementary knowledge of German should have made impossible. In the British Legation at Munich there was a German-British Consul a Munich timber-merchant.
The landlord at the window wiped the cold beads off his brow, and was surprised to find his hand not scarlet. 'Brethren, Koski the timber-merchant burst out, 'this is a Haman in disguise. To hold firearms is the surest way of provoking 'I don't say you shall hold firearms! David interrupted. 'It is your young men who must defend the town.
"Oh, never mind never mind," replied the timber-merchant, with a slight wave of his hand, "I have so much else to think of that I nearly had forgot it. Just now, too, there are matters of a different kind from trade to attend to, so don't let it concern ye." As the timber-merchant spoke, as it were, down to him from a higher moral plane than his own, Giles turned to Mrs. Melbury.
Daffy was there before him; they met at the entrance to the platform from which their train would start. 'Must you go back by this? asked the tailor. 'My son wasn't at home, and won't be till about five o'clock. I should be terribly obliged, Mr. Lott, if you could stay and go to Clapham with me. Is it asking too much? The timber-merchant gave a friendly nod, and said it was all the same to him.
'Ten thousand roubles for a few pistols! cried Mendel the horse-dealer. 'It is a swindle. David flushed. 'We have to buy three pistols for every one we get safely into the town. But one revolver may save ten thousand roubles of property, not to mention your life. 'It will end our lives, not save them! persisted the timber-merchant. 'This is a plot to destroy us!
Close ties were knit between the two families by this occurrence, and though Thaddeus was neither noble-born nor a soldier, Feodor considered him his brother and felt toward him as such. Now Thaddeus had become the greatest timber-merchant of the western provinces, with his own forests and also with his massive body, his fat, oily face, his bull-neck and his ample paunch.
We will make a collection, and the president of the Kahal shall go at once to the Governor, and present it to him' here Mendel winked 'to enable him to take measures against the pogrom. 'The Governor is in the plot, said David. 'He can be bought out, said the timber-merchant. 'Pogroms are more profitable than presents, rejoined David drily.
I will pay Sparks, too, out of what I have in my bureau; and the timber-merchant can pay his debt into my London banker's. LOSELY. 'DO you mean that you have enough for both these bills actually in the house? GUNSTON. 'Certainly, in the bureau in my study. I don't know how much I've got. It may be L1,500 it may be L1,700.
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