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Silver, gold, banknotes, each and all were swept into the coffers of the "bank." His losses must already exceed his winnings, Dirke thought. The thought animated him with a malignant joy. For the first time he felt an interest in the fall of the ball; for the first time too, he felt the evil in his nature vibrate into life.
"I say, governor, don't you want a broker to bid for ye?" "Wink at me next time, sir; I'll do the office for you." "No greenhorns left now." "That lady won't give a ten-pund note for her grandfather's armchair." "Oh, yes, she will, if it's stuffed with banknotes." "Put the next lot up with the owner's name and the reserve price. Open business." "And sing a psalm at starting."
There was just time enough to inspect his equipment, to don his arms and accoutrements, to put on his big boots, to write a few lines to prince Gregory, confiding Baia to his care, to slip into an envelope some banknotes, wet with tears, and the intrepid Tarasconais was in a stage-coach, rolling down the road to Blidah, leaving the stupefied negress in his house, gazing at the turban, the slippers and all the muslim rig-out of Sidi Tart'ri, hanging discarded on the wall.
She drew out her bank securities, signed and unsigned, now admiring the colored engravings on them, now sorting and rearranging them, fingering the packets to feel their thickness, counting them over, and several thousands in banknotes, kept in the house in case of need, and finally carefully replaced them in the strong box.
The magnificent harvest of 1813, together with other causes, brought about a sudden fall of prices, in consequence of which no less than 240 country banks stopped payment in the years 1814-16. The decrease and popular distrust of private banknotes produced an increased demand for Bank of England notes, which in 1817 had nearly risen in value to a par with gold.
"I don't say I won't," muttered he; "but, look here, will the old chap pay down smart?" "Yes, and besides, did I not tell you that he had given half down?" The boy's eyes glistened as the old man unpinned the tattered lining of his pocket, and holding the pin between his teeth, pulled out the banknotes, each one for a thousand francs. Chupin's heart rose at the sight of this wealth.
Let it be observed that the Bank of England has a touching confidence in the honesty of the public. There are neither guards nor gratings to protect its treasures; gold, silver, banknotes are freely exposed, at the mercy of the first comer.
The music seems to run through my veins like quicksilver and I forget everything everything except the delight of keeping time to it. There isn't any floor beneath me, or walls about me, or roof over me I'm floating amid the stars." Captain Jim hung his fiddle up in its place, beside a large frame enclosing several banknotes.
Some of our enterprising editors who set their readers to hunt for banknotes and missing ladies might start a competition for finding those words in every novel. But whether or no this is possible, there is no doubt that the principle in question is of great importance in the case of Dickens, and especially in the case of Dombey and Son.
"To come from that house, with its assertions of money you can hear it chink; you can smell the foul old banknotes; it stifles you into an atmosphere like this, is like coming into another world." "Thank you," said Alma. "I'm glad there isn't that unpleasant odor here; but I wish there was a little more of the chinking." "No, no! Don't say that!" he implored.
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