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'You will say that a gentleman of fortune desires the use of the little house for a week, with the keys, from the twenty-first to the twenty-eighth of June. 'At one Apostolic florin a day, put in Gambardella. 'But you must on no account let him know our names, said Trombin. 'You can give him two florins in hand as earnest money 'One is quite enough, interrupted Gambardella.
It is more certain, for instance, that a baker will take care to divide 2s. worth of bread into twenty-five penny-loaves, when a penny comes to be the twenty-fifth of a florin, than that he will divide 1s. worth into ten only, if a penny become the tenth of a shilling.
She paid for the drinks with a florin, and it was quite like old times when Slabberts calmly pocketed the sixpence of change. The bar-keeper leaned over to her again, and said, surrounding her with a confidential atmosphere of tobacco and schnaps: "He is a good man, that young man of yours, and gets much money. He means to give you a nice present by-and-by."
"I hope your losses will always be of this description, Ben," added Paul. "Probably they will be while each student is allowed only a florin a day for pocket-money," replied Ben. "There is to be a grand concert in the dog-house this evening. Of course we shall go!" "Certainly." "Suppose we walk down now." "If you please; but don't call it a dog-house."
For only answer he began whistling and drumming noisily on the table. Suddenly he paused and looked at her. "Ain't you done that charing job, then?" he asked with a grin. "Yes; and what's more, I got a florin and gave it to Mrs. Clark," she replied. "You blarsted fool! what did you do that for?"
And now, friend Peregrine, I'm consarned to know what's become of all your money " "He buys me with it," answered Diana. "Eh bought you?" "For fourteen guineas, a florin, one groat and three pennies, Jerry!" The Tinker gulped and stared. "Lord love you, gal what d'ye mean?" he questioned. "'T was all old Azor's doing, Jerry.
Lucy came up hastily, an angry glitter in her soft eyes. "You have no right to make me play the spy in this way!" she said haughtily, and going into the little station sat down with her back to the door. "You? It is I I " muttered Jean breathlessly. "And who lives in the tower, my good man? It is not big enough for a dozen hens." She slipped a florin into his hand.
He told himself that he had always hated that banker. "Why do you let such a fellow as that call you Malt-and-hops?" he said to Joshua. "What, young Florin? He's a very good fellow, and doesn't mean anything." "A vulgar cad, I should say." Then he rode on in silence till he was addressed by an old gentleman of the county who had known his father for the last thirty years.
The florin there is equal to the franc in France and to the shilling in England. They tell you that cigars are cheap in Holland. A cheap Dutch cigar will last you a day. It is not until you have forgotten the taste of it that you feel you ever want to smoke again. I knew a man who reckoned that he had saved hundreds of pounds by smoking Dutch cigars for a month steadily.
There was as much screaming and rejoicing as if every butter-cup in the grass had been changed into a gold florin. But to-day holy Florian this is a rain!" "It will do the things up there good," exclaimed the baron. "The tinder grows damp in such a torrent, or I'd take out my pistols and shoot the shabby liberty hat and motley tatters off the tree."
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