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The collection included objects of great rarity, among them a genuine spinet and a beautifully inlaid bureau. At the present boom for antiques they would realize a very substantial sum, quite a windfall, indeed, for Loveday. "Will it be enough to send me to a horticultural college?" she asked Miss Todd. "Ample, my dear.
I it was who was the means of your father thinking of it. You have heard me say so before now, and all the circumstances. “He was at Carthage at this time, undecided what to do with himself. It so happened that Julia Clara’s estates were just then in the market. An enormous windfall her estates were.
One day Link called on Andy to pay back the money he had borrowed. "There's no hurry," said Andy. "I don't need it." "Oh, I want to pay it back," said the young farmer. "I have plenty of cash now," and he exhibited quite a roll of bills. "Been drawing your salary?" asked Andy, with a laugh. "No, this is a little windfall that came to me," was the answer. "A windfall?
Jabe had asked no questions, inquisitiveness being contrary to the backwoodsman's code of etiquette; but his silence had been full of interrogation. With his mouth half-full of fried trout and cornbread, the Boy remarked: "That was no windfall, Jabe, that noise we heard last night!" "So?" muttered the woodsman, rather indifferently.
But I should have only paid her what I agreed to. It is a great windfall for her." "She deserves it." Mrs. Preston said no more at this time, for she found her husband too "infatuated," as she termed it, to agree with her. She did, however, open the subject to Godfrey when he came home, and he adopted her view of the case.
I followed them into the windfall within half a mile of home. It was then about sundown and as their tracks turned off I thought I would leave following them until next morning, and would then start after them again. As I came in sight of our clearing I thought, as usual, I would fire off my rifle at a mark, which was on the side of a tree, about ten rods off; I drew it up and shot.
Two or three ways. The law of the public domain used to permit burn and windfall to be taken out free. Your lumberman, then, homesteaded 160 acres on a slope of forest affording good timber skids and chutes. So far, no wrong! Was not public domain open to homesteading? Good; but your homesteading lumberman now watched his chance for a high wind away from his claim.
He was anticipating quite a windfall from the infair it was confidently expected would be given by Mrs. Markham in honor of her son's marriage; and Eunice herself had washed and starched and ironed the white waist she intended to wear on the same occasion.
When human affairs reach this very delicate point, and there is nothing at any moment, except a semi-miraculous windfall, to keep a man going, the crisis is very serious. And it was no wonder that Mr. May was anxious to drive his son into accepting any possible appointment, and that he occasionally railed unreasonably at his family.
He had lost his reckoning, and did not know the day of the week or of the month. He was almost in despair when, two days before, he had a windfall, which raised his general average in the form of a woman with twenty-six children, and he was rejoicing that he should be able to turn in one hundred and fifty people.
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