As soon as the words were spoken he regretted them, not only because they were untrue-there being no prospect of his receiving
cash payment from Hale-but also because he knew from experience the imprudence of letting Zeena think he was in funds on the eve of one of her therapeutic excursions.
Anatole Kuragin was staying in Moscow because his father had sent him away from Petersburg, where he had been spending twenty thousand rubles a year in
cash, besides running up debts for as much more, which his creditors demanded from his father.
Never Too Late to Mend;' 'Love Me Little, Love Me Long;' 'Christie Johnstone;' 'Peg Woffington;' and then, later, 'Hard
Cash,' 'The Cloister and the Hearth,'
It is true there is the Syndicate, that great scheme of yours yesterday from which you were so careful to exclude me - you are to get great monies from them in
cash.
Vasili Andreevich did not pay Nikita the eighty rubles a year such a man was worth, but only about forty, which he gave him haphazard, in small sums, and even that mostly not in
cash but in goods from his own shop and at high prices.
On the other hand, practical common sense ruled that he should
cash it with his grocer and thereby make an impression that would later result in an increase of credit.
Here was the
cash account, showing how the money had been spent.
The price of this animal," the Hunter replied, "is down to bed- rock; you can have him for nothing a pound, spot
cash, and I'll throw in the next one that I lasso.
He seemed always to have ready money, and paid
cash for all his purchases at the village stores roundabout, seldom buying more than two or three times at the same place until after the lapse of a considerable time.
The two prospered so well together that, when he died, some fifteen years after this period, and some five after his wife, he was enabled to leave, to his eldest son, Ralph, three thousand pounds in
cash, and to his youngest son, Nicholas, one thousand and the farm, which was as small a landed estate as one would desire to see.
The governess crossed the wide hall into a little room at the side where she sat down to write the cheque, which he hastened out to go and
cash as if it were stolen or a forgery.
In the ease of Turlington's house, the foreign merchants had drawn their bills on him for sums large in the aggregate, if not large in themselves; had long since turned those bills into
cash in their own markets, for their own necessities; and had now left the money which their paper represented to be paid by their London correspondents as it fell due.
