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Miss Wallen consulted a memorandum on her desk, gravely searched through her portemonnaie, found some small coin and a two-dollar bill, then as gravely took two of the bills and handed him the ten, the two, and the small change.
John pulled out his portemonnaie, and unrolled three new and crisp bank-notes of ten dollars each. "I think that's pretty good pay," he said, looking about him triumphantly. "I don't care how many prizes Rathburn chooses to give his favorite. I rather think I can get along without them."
The old man nodded, and muttered to himself, "Fine young woman! fine young woman! Business, business! Who taught you, child, to sort your money that way?" he suddenly asked. "Why, no one taught me," replied Mercy. "I found that it saved time not to have to fumble all through a portemonnaie for a ten-cent piece.
The boy proffered a mark, the German equivalent for the American quarter, and sought vainly through the misty memories of his lessons for the German equivalent of "Size me up for a chump?" The waiter had friends and fellow-conspirators, the boy had none, and when a grab was made for his portemonnaie he backed against the stone wall and whipped out his pygmy six-shooter.
"Come, now, make it a dollar, my beauty. I'll call it all square for a dollar." The whine grew louder as he spoke, and the wheedling grin upon his disgusting face changed into an expression so menacing that Annie drew back with a shudder, and was about to return her little portemonnaie to her pocket. "No you don't, honey!"
If you've a little money in your pocket, I suppose it isn't against your promise to give me a trifle to buy a cigar with." Mirah could not ask herself another question could not do anything else than put her cold trembling hands in her pocket for her portemonnaie and hold it out.
Presently she stored her change in the little portemonnaie and picked up her bundles. Promptly he relieved her of them, and again as they came forth he tendered his arm. The side street into which they turned was darker than the broad avenue. The houses were poor and cheap, the gas-lamps few and far between. Silently now they walked rapidly along, for he was deep in thought.
This you will draw upon as you have need, for grocery bills, to pay Jacob, etc. For present purposes I will hand you fifty dollars, which I advise you to put under your mother's care." As he finished speaking, Mr. Frost drew from his pocketbook a roll of bills and handed them to Frank. Frank opened his portemonnaie and deposited the money therein.
After an hour's irritating discussions, after having ten times pretended to leave the room, he drew with many sighs his portemonnaie from its secret home, and counted upon the table the seven hundred francs in gold upon which Henrietta had stoutly insisted. That was enough to pay Mrs. Chevassat for four months' board.
Her father laughed; a sad sort of laugh though, that was not so much amusement as tenderness and pity. Then, as if the whole thing were a mere joke, yet with a shade upon his face that betrayed there was far too much truth under the jest, after all, he took out his portemonnaie and told her to look and see. "You know I don't mean that, father! How much in the bank, and everywhere?"
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