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And instead of explaining further, he drew the banknote from his pocket and showed it to Natasha. "This morning the master paid me, and I am keeping the money," he continued in a low voice, tilting back his chair. "I pay neither for my rooms nor my shop, but sit here and study all the time." "It's so well worth while, isn't it?" smiled Natasha with a contemptuous grimace.
She got into a passing cab and away she went. Fortunately I can run a bit, and reached the Palais Royal in time to see Caroline change two notes of two hundred francs each at the money-changers." "How did you find out that?" "By looking at 'em. The paper was yellow." Tantaine smiled kindly. "You know a banknote then?" "Yes, but I have precious few chances of handling them.
While eating my dinner humble of porterhouse steak and peas, and honey from bees that bumble, and maybe imported cheese I think, with a bitter feeling, of insolent money kings, who, drunk with their wealth and reeling, condemn me to eat such things. The pirate and banknote monger still gloat o'er their golden stacks, while I must appease my hunger with oysters and canvasbacks.
"All right," nodded the man, "only, the bear can't spend money. You can. I misjudged you. Let me make it right. Take that." He released his grasp of Andy's hand momentarily, to slap into his palm a banknote. "Now, look here " began Andy, modestly. "No, you look there!" cried the man, pushing Andy towards the wagon. "Good bye and good luck."
"Will you call Washington and see if he's there the chief?" "You'll have to pay for the message." Jack laid a banknote of large denomination down on the desk. "Ask for the chief," he said, "and tell him to wire any instructions he may have for the sender in cipher if he wants to, but to give any instructions he may have for us about the delivery of the message in plain United States!"
Already he saw the cold, ironical eyes which his associates would turn upon him, and their amusement over his downfall. Some of them he knew were playing high on that gambling-table kept open all day long at the Bourse, or in private houses at the clubs, and anywhere and everywhere in Paris; but not one of these men could spare a banknote to save an intimate.
Speechless between relief, doubt and resentment Chamu hid the banknote in his sash and tried to feign gratitude a quality omitted from his list of elements when a patient, caste-less mother brought him yelling into the world. "Go!" Tom Tripe made a sign to Trotters, who went and lay down, obviously bored, and Chamu departed backward, bowing repeatedly with both hands raised to his forehead.
A check is sure to reveal to us the strength of our hopes. The more Eugene learned of the pleasures of life in Paris, the more impatient he felt of poverty and obscurity. He crumpled the banknote in his pocket, and found any quantity of plausible excuses for appropriating it.
Two of the men grabbed my trunk and put it on board and the skipper tossed a banknote to the driver, without waiting for change, and we were off. The men pulled towards the yacht, and they must have been watching for us on board for I heard the clanking of the small donkey engine and the anchor-chain stiffened and began to draw in, fast.
"The officers of the Guards want you to buy yourself some little trifle which may add to your comfort," he said. "It is not from me, so you need not thank me." He took up the old man's tobacco pouch and slipped a crisp banknote inside it. "Thank ye kindly, sir. But there's one favour that I would like to ask you, colonel." "Yes, my man."
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