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Updated: June 22, 2025
I've told him so but it doesn't do any good. So will you lend me Bobby " Bobby handed him a banknote. He didn't miss Graham's meaning glance. Paredes gave the money to the butler. "Pay him, will you, Jenkins? Thanks." He surveyed the remains of Bobby's breakfast. He sat down. "May I? My breakfast was early, and prison food, when you're not in the habit "
Years ago he had read somewhere or heard somewhere about some chappie who always buzzed around with a sizeable banknote stitched into his clothes, and the scheme had seemed to him ripe to a degree. You never knew when you might find yourself short of cash and faced by an immediate call for the ready. He had followed the chappie's example.
"Why dat young marster dat's jes' come up f'om Ann'rundel got mo' money den he kin th'ow 'way I yere." "And they are eating their heads off, are they? and he wants to swap his dirty money for my Yes I know. They think they can buy anything with a banknote. And its Floe and Dandy and Sue and Rupert, is it?
Two or three crushed bills, a scrap or so of poetry presented by Griffith upon various tender occasions, and a discouragingly small banknote, the sole remains of her last quarter's salary The supply was not equal to the demand, it was evident. But she was by no means overpowered. She was dashed, but not despairing.
Get a look at my friends over there!" whispered Brimmer. "Take such a good look that you will know them again anywhere. Now, it's the one on the inside, especially. "I never mistake him again, sare, eff I see him," replied the Greek gravely. "Do you see many of these ten-dollar bills nowadays, Tony?" questioned Brimmer, carelessly displaying a banknote. The Greek shook his head wistfully.
Eden slipped in a banknote and a very small envelope and closed it, placed it in a larger envelope, sealed that and copied the first address on its cover. He now gave Robinson more of his time than ever and seemed to cling to him with almost a motherly apprehension. Robinson noticed it and felt it very, very much, and his joy at getting out of prison oozed away more and more as the day drew near.
O'Neil was bidding her good night and wishing her untroubled rest, then almost before she had accustomed herself to her new surroundings an immaculate, though sleepy, Japanese steward stood before her with a tray. He was extremely cheerful for one so lately awakened, being still aglow with pleased surprise over the banknote which lay neatly folded in his waistcoat pocket.
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.
"Will you send Mrs. Dexter our thanks, sir, and tell her that we enjoyed the cards very much?" "Especially the pictures on them," added Dan Dalzell, as he received his banknote. "I will send all your messages," nodded the lawyer, as he continued the distribution. "Say whoop!" suddenly exploded Greg Holmes. "What's the matter yours counterfeit?" laughed Dan.
So soon as the fact was known Rastignac, de Marsay, and Lucien de Rubempre went to see him, and each offered him a banknote of a thousand francs when they found how really destitute he was. Everything belonging to him had been seized except the clothes and the few jewels he wore.
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