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Updated: June 22, 2025
I knew you for a gentleman the minute you come in. "So I was flattered like, and thought if they made so much o' one banknote, what'd they say to know I'd got a pocket full of them? But didn't speak nothing, only chuckled a bit to think I could buy up half the tent if I had a mind to.
"Got any money?" he asked, suddenly. "Not much." "How much?" "Twenty-five roubles." "Let's see it." The prince took his banknote out and showed it to Ferdishenko. The latter unfolded it and looked at it; then he turned it round and examined the other side; then he held it up to the light. "How strange that it should have browned so," he said, reflectively.
With an impatient gesture Douglass shook his own hand free. But something like paper remained in his palm. Douglass held up that hand, and discovered that it held a banknote that Henckley had slipped into Douglass' hand as a bribe. Cadet Douglass calmly tore that banknote in bits and flung it off on the breeze. The fragments were out of sight in an instant.
Leander clutched it; he hugged it to his pantin' bosom; then stealin' one pale hand under the piller he drew out a faded banknote 'nd gave it to Higgins. "I thank Thee for this boon," sez Leander, rollin' his eyes up devoutly; then he gave a deep sigh. "Hold on," cried Higgins, excitedly, "you've made a mistake it isn't the last "
Andy ran and jumped to the top of the wagon, which had just started up. Settling himself comfortably, he took a look at the banknote. His eyes started, and a flush of surprise crossed his face. It was a fifty dollar bill. "From bad to worse," said the Man With the Iron Jaw. "Correct, Marco," assented Billy Blow dejectedly. It was three weeks after the start of the southern tour of the circus.
At that time a letter from London to Edinburgh was charged about twenty-eight cents; but if it contained the smallest inclosure, even half a banknote, or a strip of tissue paper, the postage was doubled. In short, the whole service was incumbered with absurdities, which no one noticed because they were old.
The sum was in truth but small, although enough to make a little heiress of Fanny Bolton, whose parents were appeased, and whose father said Mr. P. had acted quite as the gentleman though Bows growled out that that to plaster a wounded heart with a banknote was an easy kind of sympathy; and poor Fanny felt only too clearly that Pen's letter was one of farewell.
"There!" she called after a few panting seconds, and exhibited a flushed face. Dick turned eagerly and seized the banknote offered him. "Mighty much obliged, Sadie," he said, enthusiastically. "But I must run. Otherwise, this wouldn't be enough for the fare!" And, so saying, he darted out of the room. When, at last, the owner of the store entered the office, his face showed extreme irritation.
"Nothing; you will merely ask her for money." "If she comes, it is as I have guessed," he reflected. She came. Hidden in the loft of the Poivriere, Jean, through an opening in the floor, saw the duchess give a banknote to Mother Chupin. "Now, she is in my power!" he thought exultantly. "Through what sloughs of degradation will I drag her before I deliver her up to her husband's vengeance!"
Imagine some savage who, in his ignorance, thinks that it is the paper of the banknote that has the magic, by virtue of which the possessor of it gets all he wants. He piles up the papers, hides them, handles them in all sorts of absurd ways, and then at last, wearied by his efforts, comes to the sad conclusion that they are absolutely worthless, only fit to be thrown into the fire.
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