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"I think they'll catch us," Beryl observed maliciously. "Their car is a sixty h.p. Mercedes, and this " "Is about a forty," I cut in tartly, not liking the tone of her; "and just plain American make. But don't you fret, my money's on Uncle Sam." She said no more; indeed, it wasn't easy to talk, with the wind drawing the breath right out of your lungs.
That looked queer to me, an' I reckon to the rest of the crowd thar. No one overlooked the big six-shooter he packed Texas fashion. Wal, I didn't hev no idee this fellar was an Isbel until I heard Greaves call him thet. "'Isbel, said Greaves, 'reckon your money's counterfeit hyar. I cain't sell you anythin'. "'Counterfeit?
'Debtor to so much lying: forfeiture of existing stock of worth to such extent; approach to general damnation by so much. Till now, as we look round us over a convulsed anarchic Europe, and at home over an anarchy not yet convulsed, but only heaving towards convulsion, and to judge by the Mosaic sweating-establishments, cannibal Connaughts and other symptoms, not far from convulsion now, we seem to have pretty much exhausted our accumulated stock of worth; and unless money's 'worth' and bullion at the Bank will save us, to be rubbing very close upon that ulterior bourn which I do not like to name again!
She took a chair in the back row of seats, behind a small iron table, slackening her muscles and leaning back, making the mere act of sitting down yield her her money's worth. The shadow of the awning turned the day to a benign coolness; there was a sense of privilege in being thus at rest in the very street, at the elbow of its passers-by.
"At last I consented and resolved to punish his fancy by giving him his money's worth.
Goodenough's partizans, however, observed that he got his money's worth out of every man he employed; and that this was the way to grow rich. The question, said they, is not which of the three nephews will be the best beloved, but which will be the richest at the end of ten years; and, on this ground, who can dispute that Goodenough's maxim is the best, "Charity begins at home?"
'They tell me, said the old man, 'that one of those Goldsheiner girls will have a lot of money. 'A Jewess, suggested Nidderdale. 'What difference does that make? 'Oh no; not in the least if the money's really there. Have you heard any sum named, sir? The old man only grunted. 'There are two sisters and two brothers. I don't suppose the girls would have a hundred thousand each.
Give me the same income and I can live, but I am poor indeed. You tell me that money cannot buy the things most precious. Your commonplace proves that you have never known the lack of it. When I think of all the sorrow and the barrenness that has been wrought in my life by want of a few more pounds per annum than I was able to earn, I stand aghast at money's significance.
And if I can make money, I'll give it back to her." "Oh, you know best, I suppose," said Mandeville. "Only if I lose it?" "Losing money's no worse than spending it." And then he mentioned a certain venture in which the money might usefully be employed.
There is some nicety of feudal custom here that escapes my comprehension. In Yeddo, with this nondescript political status, and cut off from any means of livelihood, he was joyfully supported by those who sympathised with his design. One was Sákuma-Shozan, hereditary retainer of one of the Shogun's councillors, and from him he got more than money or than money's worth.
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