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Mordaunt looked at him a moment. "I have been in the habit of drawing large sums," he said. "But I usually write a note to the bank to accompany a cheque of this sort." He turned to the drawer and unlocked it. His cheque-book lay in its accustomed place within. He took it out and commenced a careful examination of the counterfoils of cheques already drawn.
"I had one, as of course you know, but the moment I began to think that you might be an agreeable companion, I parted from her, at the time when you saw the counterfoils in the cheque-book, and changed to me from that moment." "Then ?" she still looked incredulous. "She has a cousin living in the flat above, married to an anticaire. She comes to see her. You have no doubt met on the stairs.
His enthusiasm was contagious. If a scheme was started, if an experiment was suggested, Cecil's cheque-book came out directly, and the thing was set on foot without delay. His easy, elastic step, his bright eye, his warm, hearty handshake, seemed to electrify people to put some of his own spirit into them.
This done, she put her credit notes and her cheque-book into her handbag, and, leaving the note with the concierge's wife, who bristled with interesting suspicions, she vanished into Paris. The weather was even more superb than on the previous day.
The scent of violets and fur was overpowering, and the thought flashed through him: 'I believe she only wanted to take money off old Joseph in the Bible. I can't leave my coat in her hands! What shall I do? Mrs. Larne was murmuring: "It would be so sweet of you if you could manage it today"; and her hand slid over his chest. "Oh! You have brought your cheque-book what a nice boy!"
Her head was throbbing with fatigue, and she had to go over the figures again and again; but at last it became clear to her that she had lost three hundred dollars at cards. She took out her cheque-book to see if her balance was larger than she remembered, but found she had erred in the other direction.
'Yes? Miss Levering's eye flew to the cheque-book. 'If only we could get women of influence to understand what's at stake, said Miss Claxton, a little wistfully. 'They don't? 'Oh, some. A few. As much as can be expected. 'Why do you say that? Miss Levering opened wide eyes a glint of something like amazed laughter crossed her face, as she repeated 'They are sexless, you think?
And he had seen Eldrick place them in the drawer, as usual, and soon afterwards Eldrick had walked out, saying he was going to the club, and he had never returned. What Pratt now did was done as the result of careful thought and deliberation. There was a cheque-book lying on top of some papers in the drawer; he took it up and tore three cheques out of it.
I had hoped other things from you, Mr. Dunshunner I thought you and Selina " "Nonsense, man! Nobody goes into the Gazette just now it will be time enough when the general crash comes. Out with your cheque-book, and write me an order for four and twenty thousand. Confound fractions! In these days one can afford to be liberal." "I haven't got it," said Sawley.
"Yes, I have I want this chap freed from disaster, not for his sake, but for the sake of the family. What must that poor lady have gone through, and that poor girl!" George looked at me with his whimsical cynical eye. "It's awfully decent of you, Nicholas," was all he said though, and I reached for my cheque-book, and wrote a cheque for thirty thousand francs with my stylo.
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