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"And keep my share of it, Richie," said the other Templar, showing an almost empty purse, in his turn, "till this be full again, and then I will promise to hear you with some patience." "Ay, ay, gallants," said Richie, "the full and the empty gang a' ae gate, and that is a grey one but the time will come." "Nay, it is come already," said Lowestoffe; "they have set out the hazard table.
"I will fill your purse for you," he kindly said. "See that my wife wants nothing. You must watch her like a child. "She is sadly broken in health. Don't mind her babblings!" He touched his forehead significantly. He had already carefully bestowed his valise of treasure under the cosy lounge berth by the great portholes, and his rugs and wraps covered it.
You would have about as much quicksilver in your stomach, as I have in my purse, and all my silver has been quick, ever since I remember, like the jests of the gravedigger in Hamlett but, as you say, where the devil is the end of this yarn?"
These saw my person, and judged of me by that, but they saw not my purse, nor understood the lightness of my pocket. But I, who alone understood my own condition, knew I must sit down with lower commons.
Sir Charles Cornwallis, English ambassador in Spain, lent a most favourable ear to these proposals, and James eagerly sanctioned them so soon as they were secretly imparted to that monarch. "The king here," said Cornwallis, "hath need of the King of Great Britain's arm. Our king . . . hath good occasion to use the help of the King of Spain's purse.
What you've got to do is to take her away to a distance, and settle in some place where nobody knows what's gone by." Fauchon considered for a moment, a slight, deprecatory smile stealing over his face. "I suppose," he remarked, "she hasn't got any little purse of her own by this time; considering, I mean, that she's been of use with the lines and the nets and so on."
Money of his own he had none, and his purse was always empty by reason of his free-handedness. Rumour spoke of a fortune of many thousands which had been spent wholly on others in the building or maintenance of school and hospital, shelter and refuge. He lived a life of more than Christian simplicity, and was seen to treat himself with constant disregard of comfort and convenience.
A big, long purse, Pauline, that's what I want a big, long purse, my girl, and then you and I might leave this place and all these old harrowing associations. What about that Hawthorne business? Do you ever hear?" "Sometimes," whispered Miss Clairville. "Antoine, as you may have noticed, acts for me. I give him the money, but I never go myself.
And commanded them that they should take nothing for their journey, save a staff only; no scrip, no bread, no money in their purse: But be shod with sandals; and not put on two coats. And he said unto them, In what place soever ye enter into an house, there abide till ye depart from that place.
Every hundred yards or so one is greeted by the monotonous cry of 'Denk ereis an de baanveger, so that on long trips these sweepers are a great nuisance, for having to get out one's purse and give them cents greatly impedes progress.
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