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I stopped a Russian woman who was hesitating as she passed. "There are many," said she. "It is quite common. You see plenty babies lying in the rain. When you come? You come off a ship? . . . The only way to help them is give them piastres." I did that, and by that time a little crowd had gathered and every one began to fret and give a little money to them.
The older men looked instead with grim, set smiles at the casks of piastres about the main mast. The General and Captain Gomez, left seated on a bale of goods, consulted each other with well-nigh hopeless looks; they were, in a sense, the sole survivors of the Saint-Ferdinand, for the seven men pointed out by the spies were transformed amid rejoicings into Peruvians.
"Steady-going old party," said de Crespigny. Why, have you run foul of him?" "He has offered me ten thousand piastres to poison Ali Higg" "Show me the money!" laughed de Crespigny. "He was hardly as previous as that. His head wife bribed these kids to bring me to the house, and the old boy met me in the wool-store. Said he'd been told I was going to Petra.
"The Albanian chief says that if twenty thousand piastres apiece, or one hundred thousand piastres in all, are not paid for you by sunset here to-morrow evening, you shall all be shot in cold blood, and your doom be on your own heads." "Tell your chief, or thief, or whatever ruffian he is, that none of us will pay a penny.
It contains five thousand piastres, so that if ever I visit you again I may find you in better circumstances. God help you in all things! "Your grateful servant, "Now, didn't I say he was mad?" exclaimed Halil, after reading through the letter. "Who else, I should like to know, would have given me five thousand piastres for three red onions?"
I was in the act of squabbling with the Pole over the last demand for piastres, when we heard a noise in the gateway of the inn, and I saw Smith's countenance become pale. It was an Englishman's voice asking if there were any strangers there; so I went into the courtyard, closing the door behind me, and turning the key upon the landlord and Smith.
Hope's house offered to take 15,000,000 piastres at the rate of 3 francs 75 centimes each.
In the first class of expenditure we find 1,355,798 piastres for the subsistence of the military forces kept up for the defence of the Havannah and the neighbouring places; and 648,908 piastres for the royal navy stationed in the port of the Havannah.
He was questioning me as to Turkish methods of taxation: population of a province so many piastres per head of population so many what was the precise value of the piastre? Twopence and a fraction of a farthing. Ah! in pounds sterling that would be approximately so much.
A few piastres had heretofore satisfied, but on leaving, after this Golden Visit, they seized my interpreter the moment he took his purse out, tore it away from him took all he had saying, "they should never see such a man again" and returned him the empty purse.
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