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Alderson caught Nickleby's eye and shook his head in warning. Nickleby stepped across the room, opened the satchel and flung out upon the table a package of blank brown wrapping paper, cut to the size of bank-notes and fastened together with rubber bands. He pointed his finger at it contemptuously.
"I heard the crumpling of bank-notes. For a while all was still, and then Monsieur de Larsagny said: "'What do you intend to do now? "'Oh, I have already struck the young fool a blow, replied the Italian. 'She is in my power, and it will be easy for me to entrap him. "'But be careful, the slightest haste might ruin us.
The thunder growled in the distance; but it was apparently not heard by the jeweller, Caderousse, or La Carconte, absorbed as they were all three with the demon of gain. I myself felt; a strange kind of fascination at the sight of all this gold and all these bank-notes; it seemed to me that I was in a dream, and, as it always happens in a dream, I felt myself riveted to the spot.
Dale got off the bed heavily and clumsily, blew out one of the candles and carried the other to the fireplace. There he lighted the corners of the three bank-notes and watched them burning in the empty grate till nothing was left of them but black and gray powder. Then he put on his hat and moved to the door. "What are you going to do?" "I don't know."
The usual temporary wonderment flew round the table; and this number was courted in dread, avoided with apprehension. Abrane let fly a mighty breath: 'Virgin, by Jove! Success was a small matter to Gower Woodseer. He displayed his contempt of fortune by letting his heap of bank-notes lie on Impair, and he won. Abrane bade him say 'Maximum' in a furious whisper.
But I'm an old thing, you know, and not so tender-hearted as you; and I confess I should have been very glad to hear that the wicked old witch had been sent to prison and hard labour I should. And what do you suppose she was looking for what did she want to steal? I think I can guess what do you think? 'To read the papers; maybe to take bank-notes I'm not sure, I answered.
The spirit which I once heard laugh at a young man new in politics because he treated "the boys" with his own good cigars instead of buying bad ones at the saloon the spirit which I once heard assure a man of public ability and fitness that he could never reach political office unless he pushed himself, and paid agents to buy votes, because no man could expect an office to be handed to him on a gold plate the spirit which, to my knowledge, displayed a handful of bank-notes in the anteroom of a legislature, and exclaimed, "That's what makes the laws!" this was a spirit which, like other honorable men and patriotic Americans, Irving despised.
Fraisier had been careful to spread out the money on Berthier's desk, and so dazzled was Schmucke by the sight of the six thousand-franc bank-notes for which he had asked, and six hundred francs for the first quarter's allowance, that he paid no heed whatsoever to the reading of the document.
A handsome marriage-portion will always attract a husband. But, in either case, Blanche would require money a large sum of money, for whose use she would be accountable to no one. This conviction made her resolve to take possession of about two hundred and fifty thousand francs, in bank-notes and coin, belonging to her father.
He was about to exercise the gracious privilege of the wealthy Christian man; and, as he handled a bundle of crisp bank-notes which he held in the side pocket of his coat, his fingers positively tingled with rapture. The street was very quiet. A milk girl was going from door to door, and the lamplighter was vanishing in the distance.
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