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Updated: June 15, 2025
And then somehow it fell open, at a page that was marked by the insertion of an empty envelope. The envelope caught Anthony's eye, and held it; and that was scarcely to be wondered at, for, in his own unmistakable handwriting, it was addressed to Madame Torrebianca, at the New Manor, Craford, England, and its upper corner bore an uncancelled twenty-five centime Italian postage-stamp.
But Monferrand interrupted his colleague in a clear trenchant voice: "He never handed me a centime." The other looked at him in astonishment, but could only see his big, rough head, whose features were steeped in shadow: "Ah! But I thought you had business relations with him, and knew him particularly well." "No, I simply knew Hunter as everyone knew him.
At the same time, I admit that the situation is a precarious one: you are, I am sure, well provided for in the present will of Lord Pharanx, but he is on the point within, say, three or four days of making another; and exasperated as he is at your appearance in England, I know there is no chance of your receiving a centime under the new will.
Then he wrote a letter, which he addressed to "Signor Bruno, care of Mrs. Potter, St. Mary Western, Dorset." "I shall come," he wrote, "but not in the way you suggest. I have a better plan. You must not know me when we meet." He purchased a twenty-five centime stamp from Mr. Jacquetot, and posted the letter with his own hand in the little wall-box at the corner of the Rue St. Gingolphe.
"Must I repeat it?" he said; "I am completely drained, com plete ly!" "Indeed?" said the usurer; "well, I am sorry for you; but I shall have to sue you." "And what good will that do? Let us play above board, M. Clergeot. Do you care to increase the lawyers' fees? You don't do you? Even though, you may put me to great expense, will that procure you even a centime?
"It is excellent really excellent," Julien proclaimed. "Do you mean to say seriously that you are going to pay only two francs each for this repast?" "Not a centime more," Kendricks assured him. "Do you know why I brought you here?" "Part of my education, I suppose," Julien replied resignedly. "Quite true. Further than that, I am here on business for my paper.
The reader may smile at this picture of overwhelming grief and cruel recriminations against herself apropos of a couple of fifty centime pieces. Alas! no sum is small or insignificant to the poor; an increase of ten sous in wages brings back life to the starved bodies, alleviates that living agony which leads so many to a premature grave.
She clasped his knees in a moment; she kissed his knees with flowing tears. "O," she cried, "I asked but a kind word!" "Let us never one think hardly of the other," said Keawe, and was gone out of the house. Now, the money that Keawe had taken was only some of that store of centime pieces they had laid in at their arrival. It was very sure he had no mind to be drinking.
The land hereabouts, as I have before stated, is excessively divided, the holdings being from two and a half acres in extent and upwards. It often happens that the younger children of these small owners give up their share of the little family estate without claiming a centime of compensation, and seek their fortunes in the towns.
"Sh sh sh!" hissed Martine angrily "What one does not know one should not say. Mayhap there never was a child at all. Whatever the wrong was, she has suffered for it; and if the man who led her astray ever comes nigh her, his life is not worth a centime." "Rough justice!" said one of the market porters, who had just paused close by to light his pipe.
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