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Pratt pulled out his roll of bank-notes, fluttered it in his companion's face, laid it on the table, and set an ashtray on it. "There's a hundred pounds there!" he said, "It's yours to pick up if you'll do a little job for me. Easy job, too! you'll never earn a hundred pounds so easy in your life!" Murgatroyd pricked up his ears.
As Madame Marillac led the way to the door of communication between the rooms, she quickly took from her pocketbook the bank-notes with which she had provided herself, and folded them so that they could be easily concealed in her hand. She followed the widow into the little room. The boy was sitting on his bed. He laid down his flageolet and bowed to Stella.
But if I ever hear of your lisping it again to any living person, I give you my word for it you shall be sorry. I pay you your own price for your silence; now I want you to understand that I've bought it and it's mine." He had taken a package of bank-notes from a drawer in his safe, had counted out a portion of them, and now handed them to Rhyming Joe.
And after one searching glance at him, and one lifting of an eyelid by a practised finger, she went rapidly and thoroughly through Pratt's pockets, and within a few minutes of entering the room had cleared them of everything they contained. The sealed packet which he had taken from his safe that morning; the bank-notes which Mrs.
Montenero, after thanking Lord Mowbray and his cousin, the Bank director, who had shown and explained every thing to us with polite and intelligent patience, observed that the Bank was to him a peculiarly interesting sight. "You know," said he, "that we Jews were the first inventors of bills of exchange and bank-notes we were originally the bankers and brokers of the world."
I do not pay these bank-notes in to my account and ask you to credit me with twenty thousand pounds. I ask you to allow me to deposit them here for seven days as security against an overdraft. You can then advance me enough money to meet my engagements of to-day." The banker took up the notes and looked them through, one by one. They were very crisp, very new, and absolutely genuine.
"Indeed, it seemed to me that my firmness alarmed him. With a feverish haste, he began to feel in his pockets. He took out their contents of gold and bank-notes all in a heap, and, thrusting it into my hands without counting, "'Here, he said, 'take this. Are you satisfied? "I observed to him, that, having sent a letter to Mme. de Thaller, it would perhaps be proper to await her answer.
When Armand, with the terrible words, “Look, all of you, I owe this woman nothing!” flung the gold and bank-notes at the half-swooning Marguerite, Lena cowered beside me and covered her face with her hands. The curtain rose on the bedroom scene. By this time there was n’t a nerve in me that had n’t been twisted. Nanine alone could have made me cry.
And, with the words, Bellew took out a leathern wallet, and from this wallet, money, and bank-notes, more money, and more bank-notes than Adam had ever beheld in all his thirty odd years, at sight of which his eyes opened, and his square jaw relaxed, to the imminent danger of his cherished clay pipe.
They found the bank-notes which Kitely got at the Bank yesterday evening, and a quantity of letters and papers that we presume had been in that empty pocket-book. They were all hidden in a hole in the thatch of Harborough's shed." "Where are they?" asked Brereton. "Down at the police-station the superintendent has them," answered the detective. "He'd show you them, sir, if you care to go down."
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