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Brightening to greater brilliancy as he turns to me: "Will you buy de last number of my paper? She is in my pocket. She is ver' interesting. Oh! ver' so. Moche information for two pence." "I shall be charmed," I said, and extended twenty centimes across the table. "Ach Tausend! Dass ist herrlich!" and he drew off the last drops of Pomino. "Now I will tell you vun ding. Hev you been in Provence?"
"I do b'lieve I hev drunk dree francs. Take up de flasche and weigh her. Tink so?" "I can believe it without weighing the bottle," I replied. "And only four sous twenty centimes left!" exclaimed the old gentleman, meditatively. "But four sous is four sous. It is de price of mine paper" brightening in his reflections "I can but shell one copy more, and I am all right."
He now lives absolutely alone, without a guard of any sort, some days' journey from the river and feels quite safe, for the natives here look upon a white man as a protection from the Arabs. This Company trades in rubber with the natives, paying in beads at the rate of 40 centimes a kilogramme.
"Three hundred and twelve thousand francs and some centimes, costs paid; but the charges for the arrest not included." "Three hundred thousand francs," cried the Baron; "dat is a fery 'xpensive vaking for a man vat has passed the night on a sofa," he added in Europe's ear.
The portrait sketched by the wine-vendor fully corresponded with the description given by the hotelkeeper in the Rue de Helder. Accordingly, M. Fortunat drained his glass, and threw fifty centimes on the counter. Then, crossing the street, he boldly rang at the door of Madame d'Argeles's house.
A letter addressed to the late Rogron at Provins was certain to pique the curiosity of Rogron, Jr., or Mademoiselle Rogron, the heirs in Paris. Out of that human interest the Treasury was able to earn sixty centimes.
But the tourists were shrewd, and they knew what they wanted, though they had no idea why they wanted it. The natural result of this situation was a rise in price of the desired picture. The original price of ten CENTIMES was doubled and then quadrupled, and finally the tourists began to bid for the picture until the affair became an auction.
The construction subsidies were the same, except that war-ships built for foreign countries were debarred from receiving bounties. The navigation subsidy per gross ton for every thousand sea miles sailed beyond the Suez Canal and the Strait of Gibraltar was increased to 0.80 lire, the rate to be diminished by ten centimes for steamers and fifteen centimes for sailing-ships every three years.
"Your seat, sir, upper five," he said, and departed with my fifty centimes, which is called a dime in America. In the little division which I could see was marked five were two nice seats that were to each other face to face, but it appeared that neither of them was vacant for Mr. Robert Carruthers.
If they had not enough to eat they should not have children. There he was himself with only one daughter he did not think he had any right to more and so thanks to Our Lady he was able to save a scrap for his old age. They listened absently, putting their hands in their cassocks. "It is all God's will! What poverty!" And some gave her ten centimes, others a real, one or two even a peseta.
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