The fellow was bankrupt, and Miriam said she got it for the half what it was worth.' 'Serve the penny-turning rascal right.

The old vixen-fox took care, I'll warrant her, to get her profit out of the bargain.' 'Never mind if she did.

We can afford to pay like men, if we earn like men.' 'We shan't afford it long, at this rate,' growled Wulf.
'Then we'll go and earn more.

I am tired of doing nothing.' 'People need not do nothing, unless they choose,' said Goderic.

'Wulf and I had coursing fit for a king, the other morning on the sand-hills.
I had had no appetite for a week before, and I have been as sharp-set as a Danube pike ever since.' 'Coursing?
What, with those long-legged brush-tailed brutes, like a fox upon stilts, which the prefect cozened you into buying.' 'All I can say is, that we put up a herd of those--what do you call them here--deer with goats' horns ?' 'Antelopes ?' 'That's it--and the curs ran into them as a falcon does into a skein of ducks.