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And last of all, there were some who, in open defiance of chronology, attributed the change to a post-dated event, and said that the swells from the Castle were the ruin of Mathew Kearney, and that he was never the same man since the day he saw them.
A check drawn on August 5th, but dated August 20th cannot be collected till the latter date. Never date a check ahead unless you are positive that you will have the money in bank to meet it on the day named. Never, if you can avoid it in trade, receive a post-dated check. Cash or deposit your checks as soon as possible after they are received.
I have post-dated the check a week, to give me time to realize on the securities in which my money is invested." Roland's whole nature rose in revolt at this sacrifice. If it had been his host who had made this offer, he would have accepted it. But chivalry forbade his taking this money from a woman. A glow of self-sacrifice warmed him. After all, what was this money of his?
Get hold of her, whoever she is, and then ah, we shall be in sight of the finishing-part." "What about tracing the whole lot through the check he has given?" suggested Viner. "Wouldn't that be a good way?" "We should have to wait nearly a month," answered Mr. Pawle. "And even then it would be difficult simple though it seems at first sight. There are folk who deal in post-dated checks, remember!
Protestant theology has on the whole minimized the influence of the mysteries, and has post-dated it, from an unwillingness to allow that there was already a strong Catholic element in the Christianity of the first century. Orthodox Catholicism has ignored it from different but equally obvious motives.
I was to give my solemn word of honour that I would not follow her, or cause her to be followed. I was not to ask questions. And I was to give a post-dated check on the bank at which I had opened an account in London, on receipt of the papers. The check was to be post-dated one month; it was to be made out to bearer, and the amount was ten thousand pounds. I agreed!"
'I could get a bit of stiff done, but a cheque, you see especially a post-dated one is always objected to. 'Well, I dare say that will make no difference, observed Mr. Thornton, "stiff," if you prefer it say three months; or perhaps you'll give us four? 'Three's long enough, in all conscience, replied Mr. Sponge, with a shake of the head, adding, 'Bullfrog made me pay down on the nail.
The only things I didn't like at the hotel were the eggs; which looked so nice, quite brown, and dated the morning you had them, on their shells, but tasting mediæval. I wonder if eggs can be post-dated, like cheques? As for the other eatables, there was very little taste in them, mediæval or otherwise. I do think ice-cream, for instance, ought to taste like something, if it's only hair oil.
A discussion would at once have produced this criticism: that Ireland would say to-morrow, "The Parliamentary party brought to Ireland a post-dated order for Home Rule, liable to an indefinite series of postponements: Sinn Fein by a week's rebellion secures that Home Rule shall be brought into force at once."
He had expected, according to all accounts, to find in Madame des Ursins a woman of the Fronde, somewhat post-dated: instead of that he discovered a person whom it cost little to be naturally a person of authority, with a capacity for governing, and whose social powers never failed of their charm, so elevated were their characteristics.
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