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'Tis but meet that she make a present to her brother on her wedding-day. So, then, we understand each other: immediately after the ceremony of your marriage, you make out a deed by which you relinquish to me the usufruct of the Bonaletta estates in Savoy for life. Who gets them after me, I care not." "I consent; and add thereunto a yearly pension of one thousand ducats. Does that content you?"
"My niece," says she, dwelling on the word with a smile, as if happy in the alliance, "my niece, coming to Barbary of her free will, is not a slave like those captured in warfare and carried there by force. She remains there as a hostage for me, and will be free to return when I send the price of my ransom." "Is that a great sum?" "Three thousand gold ducats, about one thousand pounds English."
Bar silver, containing 11-12ths fine silver, 21 Guilders / mark, and in this proportion down to 1-4th fine, on which 5 guilders are given. Fine bars,................. 28 Guilders / mark. GOLD Portugal coin................. 310 Guilders / mark Guineas....................... 310 Louis d'ors, new.............. 310 Ditto old.............. 300 New ducats.................... 4 19 8 per ducat
I paid her fairly, but she not contented laid hold of me and never let go until she brought me here; she says I forced her, but she lies by the oath I swear or am ready to swear; and this is the whole truth and every particle of it." The governor on this asked him if he had any money in silver about him; he said he had about twenty ducats in a leather purse in his bosom.
Alischar followed scrupulously the instructions of his wife, and in this manner, supported by Smaragdine's needlework, they spent a whole year of undisturbed felicity. One day, as Alischar was going to market with one of Smaragdine's coverlets, as usual, to sell, he happened to meet with a certain Infidel who at once offered him sixty ducats for it.
Therefore, if judgment comes, it is but right and reasonable. As for the sixty ducats you tell me you are fined, I think this a scurvy trick, and am exceedingly annoyed. However, we must have patience as long as it pleases God. I will write and enclose two lines to Giuliano de' Medici. Read them, and if you like to present them to him, do so; you will see whether they are likely to be of any use.
They are remarkable for the pearl fishery, which is carried on in their neighborhood during the months of June, July, and August; a fishery which, in the sixteenth century, was estimated at 500,000 ducats. The name Baharein signifies two seas." MR. WILTON. "Well, Charles; what can you tell us about the little Sea of Aral?" CHARLES. "Not much I am afraid, sir.
You think that you passed for a common Cossack? No, they have offered a reward of two thousand ducats for your head." "And Ostap!" cried Taras suddenly, and tried to rise; for all at once he recollected that Ostap had been seized and bound before his very eyes, and that he was now in the hands of the Lyakhs. Grief overpowered him.
I was determined to start the next day so as to be at Rome for the last week of the carnival and I begged the duke to let me give Leonilda the five thousand ducats which would have been her dower if she had become my bride. "As she is your daughter," said he, "she can and ought to take this present from her father, if only as a dowry for her future husband."
As I left him, he called me back to tell me, "I will take care and pay your undertaker;" for he certainly believed I should never return alive. I ran now, half-despairing, to Baron Lopresti, who gave me fifty ducats and a pair of pistols, provided with which I cheerfully repaired to the field of battle. Here I found half a dozen officers of the garrison.
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