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Upstairs Clotilde had tranquilly resumed her drawing. She did not even look around at his entrance, but contented herself with saying: "How long you have been! I was beginning to think that Martine must have made a mistake of at least ten sous in her accounts." This customary jest about the servant's miserliness made him laugh. And he went and sat down quietly at his table.
He looked more like a bank clerk than anything else that Cleek could think of at the minute, and a none too prepossessing bank clerk at that, for Nature had not been any too lavish of her gifts as regards personal attractiveness, seeming to prefer to make up for her miserliness in the bestowal of good looks by an absolute prodigality in the gifts of ears ears as big as an oyster-shell and so prominent that they seemed even larger than they were, and that is saying a great deal.
This side of rural life, this ambition, akin to what we see taking quite another form among ourselves, Zola does not sufficiently realize. Shocking indeed were the miserliness and materialism of such existences but for the element of self-denial, this looking ahead for those to follow after.
His companions accuse him of miserliness and usury. I do not know: I like him; he teaches me a great many things; he seems a man to me. Coretti, the son of the wood-merchant, says that he would not give him his postage-stamps to save his mother's life. My father does not believe it. "Wait a little before you condemn him," he said to me; "he has this passion, but he has heart as well."
But he pretends to be chivalrous and generous, and he has won a queen any wealthy gentleman in England I know of one, if not two would be proud to have beside him in equal state; and what is he to her? He is an extinguisher. Or is it the very meanest miserliness, that he may keep you all to himself? There we are again! I say he is an unreadable sphinx." Aminta had rung the bell for her maid. Mrs.
Of course I cannot force you; you are free and rich, and can suit yourself." "I will come for a time if you wish if I can bring Pigott with me." "You may bring twenty Pigotts, for all I care so long as you will pay for their board," he added, with a touch of his old miserliness. "But what do you mean 'for a time'?"
Not to celebrate one's birthday can only be a sign of poverty, miserliness or misanthropy, and to overlook the birthday anniversary of a close relative is to risk an immediate breach of connections. Nothing was more familiar to Keith than his mother's open worries about money and his father's occasional stern reference to the need of saving.
She could not say she did not approve of Sarah, for there was not a more upright, self-respecting girl in the village. But Sarah, because of her father's miserliness, often went out for extra work when the neighbors needed help, and this was the real cause of Mrs. Robinson's feeling.
In literature a type is made a high type either by intensity, if it be simple, or by richness of nature, if it be complex. Miserliness, braggadocio, hypocrisy, in their extremes, are the characters of comedy; a rich nature, such as Hamlet, showing variety of faculty and depth of experience, is the hero of more profound drama.
The fact being that after the initial flourish and purchase of a few pieces of jewellery and other trinkets Crabbe had tightened his purse-strings, as it were, not from miserliness, but because it was necessary to use caution until they reached London, when larger sums would be paid over on due recognition of his identity. "Free enough for the present. As for me, I have saved nothing, nothing!
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