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Then for forty days I will hold them to ransom, during which time none shall be harmed. Every man who pays ten pieces of gold shall go free, and two women or ten children shall be counted as one man at a like price. Of the poor, seven thousand shall be set free also, on payment of thirty thousand bezants.
This last had married Miss Grandcourt, and taken her name along with her estates, thus making a junction between two equally old families, impaling the three Saracens' heads proper and three bezants of the one with the tower and falcons argent of the other, and, as it happened, uniting their highest advantages in the prospects of that Henleigh Mallinger Grandcourt who is at present more of an acquaintance to us than either Sir Hugo or his nephew Daniel Deronda.
His writings were supposed to have been burned at the same time, but not all of them were, for three manuscripts at least must have gone to make up the fragments we found among our bezants. I wish for your sake, Alan, my son, that I could tell you more, for I know of no man who would gain more by Archiater's work than you. If he had been your master I think you might have rivaled the Venetians."
It is when they eat the body of their God. They say the bucket is so big it takes six fat priests to lift it." "It is too big. I'll gather the bezants." "Well," said a third, with a loud Moslem oath, "keep to your gold, whether in pots or coin. For me for me" "Ha, ha! he don't know." "Don't I? Thou grinning son of a Hindoo ape." "What is it, then?" "The thing which is first in thy mind."
Wherefore I now offer 10,000 bezants in gold for her dead or alive, and 6,000 bezants in gold for evidence which will lead to the discovery and conviction of her abductors. "The offers will conclude with to-day. There was a sensation when the new placards had been generally read; yet the hunt of the day before was not resumed. It was considered exhausted.
Sometimes he would treat the subject facetiously: "If the girl were here, I should know it, and if I knew it ha, ha, ha! are bezants in gold by the thousand more precious to you than to me? Do you think I too would not like to be rich? I who live doggedly on three noumias, helped now and then by scanty palm-salves from travellers?" This treatment was successful.
The Abbot, so soon as it was day, bade come leeches, and asked of them for how much they would heal the child and they craved for the healing of him an hundred of bezants. But he said that it would be more than enough, for overmuch would the child be costing. And so much did the Abbot, that he made market with the surgeons for four- score bezants.
" Who will want breast-plates now? cried the chief breast-plate maker. "'Or helmets? exclaimed one who made armour for the head. "'I would not have taken fifty bezants for that shield, and what good is it now? said the head of the shield trade. "'My swords will be of less account, said a swordsmith. "'My arrows of none, lamented an arrow-maker. "''Tis villainy, cried one.
You said that you should make some inquiries." "Bezants are bezants and tell no tales," said Guy with a shrug. "And if they did, they might lie, like so many of those who love them. Why, you recall that I repacked that gold in my own chest because I thought one of the clerks was growing too fond of it. I took it as it lay and never looked at the parchments.
"Here she is at last!" the keeper thought, while making a profane survey of the victim.... "Well, if beauty was his object beauty without love he may be satisfied. That's as the man is. I would rather have the bezants she has cost him.
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