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He glanced around the room, wondering what he should do with the money, when he discovered that his uncle had left the key of the desk in the lock. For want of a better place, Frank decided to put the gold in there. Mr. Brown took it out of his saddle-bags, and packed it away in the drawer six bags in all, each containing two thousand dollars, in bright, new "yellow-boys."
"D them," cried the commodore, "I wish both their necks were broke, thof the two cost me forty good yellow-boys."."Forty guineas!" exclaimed the stranger, who was a squire and a jockey, as well as owner of the pack, "Lord! Lord! how a man may be imposed upon!
The 'yellow gold' is a favourite phrase in certain forms of poetry; and 'yellow-boys' is a term of natural affection among sailors. Following the example of their lord the sun, most fires and lights are yellow or golden, and it is only in times of danger or superstition that they burn red or blue.
Dropping his voice to a cautious low tone, he continued, 'She's all there a round ten thousand dollars in yellow-boys; now this is my little idea: What I don't know about raising cattle, ain't worth knowing. There's mints of money in it, in Californy.
Dropping his voice to a cautious low tone, he continued, 'She's all there a round ten thousand dollars in yellow-boys; now this is my little idea: What I don't know about raising cattle, ain't worth knowing. There's mints of money in it, in Californy.
"Before the year is out I'll put an even hundred of those little yellow-boys into your hand. I don't ask you to believe me. All you have to do is wait and see." Nor did she believe. Her incredulity made her uncomfortable, and failing of other expedient, she said: "I know you're hungry, Mart. It's sticking out all over you. Come in to meals any time.
And he turns face aside and he sidles away, * While I stand like a dog disappointed, unmanned, Oh, the sorry lot his who hath yellow-boys none, * Though his genius and virtues shine bright as the sun! O my master," continued the Steward, "this lavish outlay and these magnificent gifts waste away wealth."
Ever triumphant, with yellow-boys ever jingling in his pocket, Cartouche lived a life of luxurious merriment. A favourite haunt was a cabaret in the Rue Dauphine, chosen for the sanest of reasons, as his Captain Ferrand declared, that the landlady was a femme d'esprit.
"Pretty sound," he said, with a smile of hate in his face; "but there is crisp paper sounds sweeter. Mrs. Rowe, I'm not here for a couple of yellow-boys. Do you hear that?" He banged the table, and advanced a step. "You can't bleed a stone, miscreant." "Nay, but you can break it, Mrs. Rowe. I mean business to-day. The rarer I make my visits the better for both of us."
The delight of picking up the money the bright, shining yellow-boys and sweeping 'em into one's pocket! The deliciousness of having a triumph at last, and thinking that one didn't stop short and turn back, but went half-way to meet it! The but you're not going, old gentleman? 'I'll do it, said the old man, who had risen and taken two or three hurried steps away, and now returned as hurriedly.
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