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Yet he was deceived, for he supposed that his mother's pretty little porte-monnaie held all the bank-bills and all the silver she had in the world. "O, Grace!" said Horace, coming down stairs with a very grave face, "I wish I was grown a man: then I'd earn money like sixty." Grace stopped her singing long enough to ask what he meant to do, and then continued in a high key,
But, now that you convince me of your good sense, here are the papers which make you lord of the real and personal property of your late uncle, and here is the package with the bank-bills. Pray open and count them over. The county sheriff will go over with you to take off the seals from everything, and put you in legal possession." I thanked him, and put the money, uncounted, in my coat pocket.
Bank-bills had never been heard of. As the people grew more numerous, and their trade one with another increased, the want of current money was still more sensibly felt. Hereupon all the old silver in the colony was handed over to Captain John Hull. All this old and new silver being melted down and coined, the result was an immense amount of splendid shillings, sixpences, and threepences.
"I have hardly spent anything, and Captain Kemp gave me another hundred, from father. I almost wish it were all in bank-bills, though, for gold and silver are heavy things to carry." "Well, as to that," laughed the general, "I do not know what kind of paper money we could make in Mexico, just now. That sort of thing will do only under a pretty solid government.
When one has occasion to visit the island it is best to take American funds, either in bank-bills or gold, sufficient to meet all ordinary expenses. Our bank-bills and our gold are both at a premium. This will also save all necessity for drawing on home through any local bankers, who have a way of charging for the accommodation quite after the style of everything Spanish.
This printer was instantly released: it has even been added, that he continued his counterfeiting employment; and that, from the moment of our first advance into Lithuania, we propagated the report that we had gained possession at Wilna of several millions of Russian bank-bills in the military chests of the hostile army.
Holding the pillow in place with one hand Shocker gained possession of the watch and chain and stickpin with the other. Then he took from Dave's pocket a small roll of bank-bills. He tried to appropriate the lad's ring, but could not get it off the finger. Dave, finding himself being robbed, struggled harder than ever. But the bonds held and he was helpless to protect himself.
Those gilded cashbooks, drawers locked like gates of fortresses, heaps of bank-bills, come from I know not where, and the quantities of letters from England, Holland, Spain, India, China, and Peru, have generally a strange influence on a father's mind, and make him forget that there is in the world an interest greater and more sacred than the good opinion of his correspondents.
Bray crossed the room, touching with her foot the bank-bills, as if they were of no account to her. "I am half beside myself," said Mrs. Dinneford. Mrs. Bray made no response, did not even turn toward her visitor. "I spoke hastily." "A vampire!" Mrs. Bray swept round upon her fiercely. "A blood-sucker!" and she ground her teeth in well-feigned passion. Mrs. Dinneford sat down trembling.
"Here, then, is your money: but remember, if you tell me nothing worth knowing, I have a force that can easily deprive you of it again, and punish your insolence in the bargain." The fellow examined the bank-bills he received, with a jealous eye, and then pocketed them, apparently well satisfied of their being genuine.
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