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"Yes." said she, "you are a wise woman, and, as a token of my admiration for your prudence, here are three louis d'ors instead of the two I had promised." So saying, she dropped three gold-pieces in the basin. The woman blushed, and looked ashamed. The crowd were astonished, and here and there were heard a few murmured words of sympathy. "That was very kind, was it not?
"You asked a hundred Louis d'ors for the letter; I have brought them with me; take them now give me the letter." The baron took the money and put it in his pocket. "Well, the letter, let me have it quickly," said Madame von Brandt. Pollnitz hunted through his pockets anxiously. "My God!" he cried, "this letter has wings.
Thanks to your clemency, I have won my bet, and on my return to Vienna, I am to receive one thousand louis d'ors." "I am delighted to hear it, and I advise you to go after them with all speed," replied the countess quietly. "Pardon me if I reject the advice for, as I told you before, I really love you. You have thrown yourself into my arms, and I would be a fool not to keep you there.
Hevin mentions the case of a man who, on being captured by Barbary pirates, swallowed all the money he had on his person. It is said that a certain Italian swallowed 100 louis d'ors at a time. It occasionally happens that false teeth are accidentally swallowed, and even passed through the intestinal tract.
He was accustomed every evening to drink a pint of beer for supper at a tavern which he visited, during which he collected and pocketed all the corks that he could lay his hands on. In eight years he had collected as many corks as sold for eight louis d'ors. With that sum he laid the foundations of his fortune gained mostly by stock-jobbing; leaving at his death some three millions of francs.
And she began to count over the amount of the captain's score from the sailor's bag into the one that I was holding. It was a long, difficult business, for the coins were of all countries and sizes doubloons, and louis d'ors, and guineas, and pieces of eight, and I know not what besides, all shaken together at random.
There was his bill to be settled, there was a chair broken, Alan had sat among his dinner things, James More had fled. "Here," I cried, "pay yourself," and flung him down some Lewie d'ors; for I thought it was no time to be accounting. He sprang upon that money, and we passed him by, and ran forth into the open.
"For which the new-made nobleman has to pay a hundred louis d'ors to the Invalids at Berlin. But what is that to you? And what connection has Herr Ebenstreit's title to do with Conrector Moritz?" Moritz's face brightened, and, deeply moved, he answered: "Sire, I love the daughter of General von Leuthen, and she returns my love.
There was his bill to be settled, there was a chair broken, Alan had sat among his dinner things, James More had fled. "Here," I cried, "pay yourself," and flung him down some Lewie d'ors; for I thought it was no time to be accounting. He sprang upon that money, and we passed him by, and ran forth into the open.
Every eye turned to him and there was silence on the deck as he began to speak. "Dollars louis d'ors doubloons?" said he. "There was one man got 'em. Solomon Brig got 'em. All the rest was babes to him babes an' beggars. Billy Kidd was thought a great devil in his day, but when he met Brig's six-gun sloop off Malabar, he turned tail, him an' his two great galleons, an' ran in under the forts.
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