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After some days of toilsome journey they reached a city; on entering which, a beggar accosted them, crying out, "Worthy believers, disburse your alms and ye shall be rewarded ten-fold." Upon this, Abou Neeut gave him a sherif; when his companion, enraged at what he thought prodigality, demanded back his money, which was given him, and he marched off leaving his new friend without any thing.
When we were alone the Scotch lady turned to me. "In England," she said, "ladies never converse with their servants, particularly in the presence of guests." Then she sealed her doom. "Ladies never make gifts to their servants," she added. "Their secretaries, housekeepers, or companions disburse their bounty."
I did not know where I should be assigned, nor what I should be required to do, but these uncertainties were dispelled in a few days by General Halleck, who, being much pressed by the Governors of some of the Western States to disburse money in their sections, sent me out into the Northwest with a sort of roving commission to purchase horses for the use of the army.
But he, smarting under the deceit, being able to punish the man, made him disburse the remainder of the payment. But nobody suffered more than Michael Angelo, who never received anything more for it than the money paid him in Florence.
"Really, it is difficult coming to the point, while you look so excited; but, if you will listen tranquilly, all this may be settled." James sat down, with one hand pressed to his forehead. "Go on, sir. I am listening." "It is but just, as I said before, that you disburse the bulk of a property which originally came from the Harrington family.
What can a young lassie, what shall a young lassie, What can a young lassie do wi'an auld man? "Here is but five shillings and a ring," said Little John, "and the young man has spoken true." "Then," said Robin to the stranger, "if want of money be the cause of your melancholy, speak. Little John is my treasurer, and he shall disburse to you."
The remainder of the morning was spent in fitting up the lobster-traps with warps, toggles, and buoys. During dinner the summer's work was discussed and the boys were allotted their respective duties. To Jim fell naturally the oversight of the fishing and lobstering. Lane was to receive and disburse all moneys, and have general charge of the business matters of the concern.
"What is to be done," said Sancho, "is this; you, the winner, be you good, bad, or indifferent, give this assailant of yours a hundred reals at once, and you must disburse thirty more for the poor prisoners; and you who have neither profession nor property, and hang about the island in idleness, take these hundred reals now, and some time of the day to-morrow quit the island under sentence of banishment for ten years, and under pain of completing it in another life if you violate the sentence, for I'll hang you on a gibbet, or at least the hangman will by my orders; not a word from either of you, or I'll make him feel my hand."
Cappy Ricks does all the hiring and firing for the fleet, and whenever he has a good job to fill, he never goes outside his own employ to fill it. He always promotes the deserving. You cabled him, of course, that Captain Kendall has been killed." "Yes, I did. And I cabled him also to cable me authority to draw drafts, as skipper, in order to disburse the vessel." "Just like a kid!
I will disburse twenty-five Louis, but it is your wife who must receive them; and the only condition is that she must receive me alone for an hour, and be entirely kind." "Sir, we need just that sum; my wife is disposed to receive you; go and talk to her. I shall not be in till noon." I put twenty-five Louis in a pretty little purse, and left my room thinking that the victory was won.
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