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Updated: June 6, 2025
"How tall and fine you've grown but you aren't well-off for clothes! And you don't look to be overfed.... Ah, I've known you from the time when you and your father came into the country; a little fellow you were then, and Lasse brought me my mother's hymn-book!" She was suddenly silent, and her eyes filled with tears. One of the sailors whispered to the rest, and they began to laugh.
"She was considered well-off at school," murmured Cora, as she saw her friend half way down the second coach, "but she never appeared fond of money. Now the loss of it seems to have changed her terribly. I wonder if it can be just money?" Cora reached the seat where Freda was, with her face turned toward the window. "Well, I am here, you see," announced Cora, pleasantly.
The English had already seized on Boston abandoned by the French after their new discovery; beaver and elk peltry were much sought after and at a very high price in Europe; they could be had for a needle, a hawk-bell or a tin looking-glass, a marked copper coin. Our possession was there very well-off.
To-day, well-off, owning this shop, "The Mercury," you attribute the success of your undertakings to that clasp. To lose it would to your eyes spell bankruptcy and poverty. Your whole life has been centred upon it. It is your fetish. It is the little household god who watches over you and guides your steps.
She thought: Supposing Grannie knew all the time that Emmy was unhappy, and took a perverse pleasure in her knowledge? Supposing she was not really soft and gentle? She could be soft and gentle to her, because of her children and because of Anthony. She respected Anthony because he was well-off and efficient and successful, and had supported her ever since Grandpapa had gone bankrupt.
You didn't mention sailing on the Doraine." Mr. Percival, to the sailor: "Neither did you, Miss Clinton. You certainly are no more surprised than I am." "Why are you on board as a stowaway? Phil Morton told me you belong to an old Baltimore family and had all kinds of that is, you were quite well-off." Mr. Percival, to the sailor: "Please don't blush, Miss Clinton. I'm not the least bit sensitive.
Mrs Milton tried to speak lightly on this point, by way of breaking it to her son, but she nearly broke down, for she had already begun to feel the pinch of extreme poverty, and knew it to be very, very different from what "well-off" people fancy. The grave manner in which her son received this news filled her with anxiety.
The Directory renews and aggravates the measures of the Convention against the remainder of the property-holders: there is no longer a disguised but a declared bankruptcy. 386,000 fund-holders and pensioners are deprived of two-thirds of their revenue and of their capital. A forced loan of 100 millions is levied progressively, and wholly on "the well-off class."
He was well-off, his own master, and it was only her will that could hinder the speedy realization of that sweet domestic dream which had haunted him lately. He told his sister what had happened next morning, when Martin Lister had left the breakfast table to hold audience with his farm bailiff, and those two were together alone.
And it seemed to me now that her last strange expression as she left the room, that look of pity and regret, had all too surely indicated the certainty that she I faced it with a kind of bitter despair that she despised me. I was "well-off." I belonged to the Jervaises' class.
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