The will provided that she should receive an annuity of one thousand dollars during her widowhood; so that the Squire, by wedding her, had a new incumbrance without any addition to his resources; a bad bargain, decidedly, he thought.

She is not openly bargaining, for that would let me know how much she wants it, but she has admired it pointedly.

The promoters bargained skilfully for these grants, playing off town against town, cultivating the speculative spirit, punishing the obdurate.

Undoubtedly the writers of romans à clef did not bargain for this effect, for they clung to their princes and court ladies till the last, leaving to more able pens the task of making heroes and heroines out of cobblers and kitchen wenches.