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When he had finished his figuring he fished out a check-book, detached a tiny gold fountain-pen from the bunch of seals and knick-knacks on his watch-chain, and, filling in the checks, passed them over without comment. Fane rose, stretching his long neck, gazed about through his spectacles, like a benevolent saurian, and finally fixed his mild, protruding eyes upon Orchil.
Very complicated, doubtless, the situation; for here is M. Bompain who advances once more, and there are the slips of blue paper flying away from the check-book. Whose turn now? There is the journalist Moessard coming to draw his pay for the article in the Messenger; the Nabob will find out what it costs to have one's self called "benefactor of childhood" in the morning papers.
Then Thornton drew the check-book toward him, scratched out the printed name of the bank that it bore, wrote in another, and went on filling out the check. "Eeny-meeny-miny-mo," said Madison to himself. "The suspense is awful. How much does he raise the ante? Next to the miracle, this is the first real thrill I've had I feel like an elevator starting down quick."
There is a continual coming and going through these handsome white-and-gold drawing rooms, a noise of doors, an established current of bare-faced and vulgar exploitation attracted from the four corners of Paris and the suburbs by this gigantic fortune and incredible facility. For these small sums, these regular distributions, recourse was not had to the check-book.
Then he said it; and Frank walked in. "Good evening, Mr. Guiseley.... Yes; please sit down. I understood from you this morning that you wished for your exeat." "Please," said Frank. "Just so," said Mr. Mackintosh, drawing the exeat book resembling the butt of a check-book towards him. "And you are going down to-morrow?" "Yes," said Frank.
Besides, it was nearly eleven and time a very tired girl was in bed. She wanted a good night's rest, before she had to get up and be Mrs. Harrington, with Allan and the check-book and the Current Expenses all tied to her.
"Say next Wednesday, two hours after midnight." "Then that is settled. And now I'll square the old account agreed." He drew his check-book toward him again. But Henry slopped him. "Fair play's a jewel," said he smiling. "The moment you sacked me " "Say the Trades, not me." "Dr. Amboyne hired me, at six guineas a week, to inspect the works. So you owe me nothing; but to be true to me."
"Oh," observed Wiley, "that's two dollars for the marriage license and the rest for the wedding journey. Well, if it's as serious as that " He reached for his check-book and Charley cackled with merriment. "Yes, yes," he said, "then I would be crazy. Do you know what the Colonel told me? "'Charley, he says, 'whatever you do, don't marry no talking woman.
He was wont, moreover, to go to the teller of the bank at Colbury and demand of that distracted man such of his papers as were from time to time lost or mislaid, having learned from his wife that she had made the official the custodian of his valuables, these being his bank-book, the ancient returned checks, and the unused check-book.
That's all right when a man works for me when a man in the other pocket, I reckon when a man why, where the mischief as that portmonnaie! when a well now that's odd Oh, now I remember, must have left it at the bank; and b'George I've left my check-book, too Polly says I ought to have a nurse well, no matter. Let me have a dime, Washington, if you've got ah, thanks.
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