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"And they know gold's worth something, too," put in Yank. "This is a scout, not a house-moving expedition," said Bagsby decidedly, "and somebody's got to keep camp." "I'll stay, fer one," offered old man Pine, his eyes twinkling from beneath his fierce brows. "I've fit enough Injuns in my time." After some further wrangling we came to drawing lots.
Now that he had it, he had no thought of using it. He wanted it merely for gold's sake; not for the sake of the great, good things that might be done with it. The only thing he wished to do was to keep others from getting it. He heaped it up in a cave in the forest. Then he put on the helmet and changed himself into a fierce, ugly dragon.
So she filled from the after stuffin'-box to the after bulkhead, an' lay star-gazing, with seventy-nine squealin' passengers in the saloon, till the Camaralzaman o' Ramsey & Gold's Cartagena line gave her a tow to the tune o' five thousand seven hunder an' forty pound, wi' costs in the Admiralty Court. She was helpless, ye'll understand, an' in no case to meet ony weather.
At the Coffee-house, where much talking about a very rich widow, young and handsome, of one Sir Nicholas Gold's, a merchant, lately fallen, and of great courtiers that; already look after her: her husband not dead a week yet. She is reckoned worth 80,000l.
Stratton took his cigar from his mouth and quoted: "'I am the breath of the lute, I am the mind of man, Gold's glitter, the light of the diamond and the sea-pearl's lustre wan. I am both good and evil, the deed and the deed's intent Temptation, victim, sinner, crime, pardon and punishment." "Yes," said Geisner; "that and more. Brahma and more than Brahma. What Prince Buddha thought out too.
And what's happened to my gold?" I don't know why, but I had a furious, cold qualm that either Dudley or Macartney had found out, I don't mean about Collins so much as about Paulette having been mixed up with him. Till I knew I was damned if I'd mention him. "I don't understand," I said shortly. "The gold's in Caraquet. But the reason I didn't get home this morning is that Thompson's back!"
After many a mistake and disappointment, he succeeded in discovering on his own estate a mine of unsuspected wealth not of gold indeed, but of gold's worth the elements of human food.
Carlsen has got some plan to outwit the men. It's inconceivable that he'll be willing to give them equal shares. And he has no use for me." "You ought to have grabbed that gun of his before he did," said Lund. "He'll put you out of the way if he can, but, now his temper's b'iled over a bit, he'll not shoot you. Not afore the gold's in the hold.
"It goes," cried Jean fiercely, "wher' he ain't like to touch it, 'less Hell gits him. Father Lefleur, at the mission, says as gold's Hell's pavin', an' mebbe this'll git back wher' it come." And with vengeful force he threw back the lid of the chest. Davia's eyes expressed more than any words could have told.
Perhaps she had not found Sennacherib's manner inviting, or perhaps the fact that Ezra Gold's house lay between her own and his had held her back a little. Everybody had supposed that she and Ezra Gold were going to be married six-and-twenty years ago, Rachel herself being among the believers, and having, it must be confessed, admirable ground for the belief.
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