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Time was left to return at the same pace and dress for dinner; he swung round and picked up remembrances of sensations he had strewn by the way. She knew these woods; he was walking in her footprints; she was engaged to be married. Yes, his principle, never to ask a woman to marry him, never to court her, without bank-book assurance of his ability to support her in cordial comfort, was right.
"Exactly," Wrayson answered, "but you see the matter stands like this. He was in receipt of about L500 every three months, as his bank-book proves. This sum would represent five per cent interest on forty thousand pounds.
Kilroy, however, was not the kind of man to inspect his wife's bank-book; and besides, whether she had money or not, if it amused her to obtain more, he never could be quite sure that she would not carry out that dreadful threat and try to make it. She did not care for money. It was the pleasure of the chase that delighted her, the fun of extorting it. If Mr.
"I want you to go and tell her," said Christopher, "and I've got my bank-book here; I'm going to write some checks that she can get cashed when she needs money. I want you to tell her. Myrtle won't make a fuss. She ain't the kind. Maybe she will be a little lonely, but if she is, she can go and visit somewhere." Christopher rose.
Littimer was seated at a table, with a cigarette in his mouth, his brows drawn over a mass of papers. "Sit down and have a cigar," he said. "The fact is I am setting my affairs in order I am going to make a fresh will. If you hadn't come down last night I should probably have sent for you. Now take my bank-book and check those figures." "Shall we be long?" Henson asked, anxiously.
Before he had proceeded twenty yards Sam ran after him with the bank-book, which the other pocketed without a word, while the bridegroom returned to the house, rubbing his hands and chuckling. Jenny was already seated at the head of the table and received him with a gracious smile: "If you'll fetch another plate, Sam, my dear," she remarked, "I can begin for to cut the cake."
Saleeby says that a young man about to be married should be obliged to produce his health-book as he does his bank-book, the expression is neat; but it does not convey the real respects in which the two things agree, and in which they differ.
I hope you will save up your money and deposit more with us." Our hero took his bank-book, and gazed on the entry "Five Dollars" with a new sense of importance. He had been accustomed to joke about Erie shares, but now, for the first time, he felt himself a capitalist; on a small scale, to be sure, but still it was no small thing for Dick to have five dollars which he could call his own.
Maidment did tap at the door. She was lookin' real well an' genteel, in a black silk dress, and wi' one o' them little black bags as they did use to call ridicules in her hand. Poor Brother John could scarce take his eyes off it, for he made sure, d'ye see, as she'd a-brought the bank-book inside.
The boys looked at each other as their visitor left the room. "He came in to see if we'd missed the bank-book," said Dick. "And to turn off suspicion from himself, by letting us know he had no money," added Fosdick. "That's so," said Dick. "I'd like to have searched them pockets of his." Fosdick was right in supposing that Jim Travis had stolen the bank-book.
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