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I have wondered many times since why I did not refuse. Suffice it to say that I took it. And Auguste's face lighted up. "I am a thousan' times gret'ful," he cried; and added, as though with an afterthought, "Monsieur, would you be so kin' as to borrow me fif' dollars?" It was nearly morning when I fell asleep in my chair, from sheer exhaustion, for the day before had been a hard one, even for me.
He thanked me, and at once spoke again of Charley Fif; which I afterward found was the universally accepted style of the great emperor among the guides of Spain. In vain I tried to persuade them out of it at Cordova, at Seville, at Granada, and wherever else they had to speak of an emperor whose memory really seems to pervade the whole land.
"Two hundred and fif But what's the estate amount to; have you any idea?" "About nineteen thousand pounds, I believe." Mrs. Wickham, who had seated herself once more, struck her hands violently together. "Oh, it's absurd. It's a most unfair proposition. It will make all the difference to us. On that extra two hundred and fifty a year we could keep a car."
Hit wuz did by my young mahster, which he can do all kinds of pictures lovely. "'Your young master? the young lady said sweet voice, too; dev'lish handsome girl 'your young master? Then she said aside to the others, 'Isn't it charmingly interesting? "'Yes, 'm, I call him so. But really I'm only his'n a fif'. "'His fif? the young lady said, looking puzzled.
We accepted this, but even to have Charles V. brought nearer our hearts as Charley Fif, we could not bear to have our guide exposed to the mockery of less considerate travelers. I instructed him that the emperor's name was Charles, and that only boys and very familiar friends of that name were called Charley among us.
I asked, after we had stared at one another. "Ain't yer yeared nuth'n' 'tall?" a shade of contempt in his tone. "No, what is there to hear?" I asked, rather irascibly. "Dey's a big fight down-town; de folks dey done tore de Six Reggimen' all ter pieces, an' dey's wuk'n 'long on de Fif now." "Whereabouts?" I started up, and got on my hat in an instant. "Dey's et Camd' Street depot, now.
"Pretty middlin', Walty deer, though not as I could wish, owin' to me 'avin' to leave Board School in the Fif' Stannard when father sold up the 'ome in drink after mother went orf wiv the young man lodger. Some'ow, try all I could, I never ..." "Hou jou smoel! With our Boer people, when men speak, the women listen; but you English ones chatter and chatter!
An awed whisper ran round the assemblage. Each man said to the other under his breath: "Fif ty thous and dollars," as if the dwelling on each syllable made the total seem larger. The same thought was in every man's mind; a clean, cool little fortune merely for the crooking of a forefinger and the correct levelling of a pistol barrel. The lawyer had silently taken his departure.
Fif ty thous and dollars! We calls it 'The Double-Cross an' the Get-Away. The Perfessor has double-crossed our friend an' worthy leader, Red McIvor, an' refuses to say where he has buried the hidden treasure. Instead of fifty thousand good bucks, he hands over a wad o' phoney bills.
She approached the matter in a different way finally, and said, one day: "Mahs William, you been cayin' on yo' fif' for some time now. Doan you think it's time for some of the yothers to look after them?" I suggested that the whole family was about on a parity financially; that one brother was drifting in the trans-Mississippi, another living more precariously than I was.
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