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Updated: June 15, 2025
Nor was the fistful of currency in the other hand to be sneezed at. There were greenbacks, it is true; but there were also yellowbacks with the reddish gold of large denominations. The Sky Pilot sighed a sigh that was more than half gasp. "Can't yuh take a kid?" he inquired. "I knew youse all along.
It is true; but you have only one person. If, with a fistful of gold in your right hand, you go about begging with your left, you will be contemptible as well as ridiculous." "I agree with that," I said, "but " "Here again," said she, breaking in upon me, "you have a choice; and it is obvious.
Patriotism, wrong headed though it may be, will clothe its enthusiasts with a kind of honor which cannot be bribed, but how many real patriots are there in Paris? Are the ragged and filthy men and women of the streets patriots? I warrant a fistful of gold thrown by the man they cursed would bring him a very hurricane of blessings." "You do not understand the people, monsieur," answered Bruslart.
His impression of them was a picked lot; have been promised a fistful of money each if this came off; all slightly anxious, but not frightened. Not a single one of them likely to give the show away. They don't feel in danger of their life. They know England and English ways too well! "He felt alarmed at catching himself thinking as if his vaguest suspicions were turning into a certitude.
And at this he brought up a fistful of loose silver and gold from one of his trouser-pockets, and spread it deliberately out on the table in front of him in shining rows.
And it's all paid for, and I got more 'n a hundred dollars left, besides givin' Joey a fistful o' money jest for bein' a good feller. This ain't a bad town at all, gents. Outside o' that buckin'-broncho hammick and the man-eatin' ants I had a lovely evenin'." "How about Joao's lady friend?" quizzed Knowlton. "Huh? Oh, I didn't git to see her.
Here, reckon yourself, my man, and content you with these. He threw a fistful of gold besants on the flags, turned his horse sharply and cantered out of the yard. 'Colossal man! gasped the innkeeper. 'King or devil, but no merchant under the sun. So the news spread abroad, and Gunther puffed his cheeks over it.
Ah, we all play, and with what varied success! How many poor, unlucky wights turn up deuces all their life, while others, born under luckier stars, hold a fistful of kings and queens! How many eyes grow dim over the faint chances of small digits, while others sparkle in the reflected light of those regal robes!
As often as not, he had never heard of the tune, but when he did know it, he laid into the instrument with such vigor that they always left a good fistful of coins in his open case. At a nearby hash-slinging café where the cook had anchors tattooed on both arms, Jurgen ate breakfast.
He told Bogue, fair and straight, he was an ex-prisoner, and off the Wellinboro' transport, arrived that day in harbour. He had money in his pocket in Bogue's presence he pulled out a fistful of gold and he pitched a tale that he was bound for his home, a little this side of Saltash, but couldn't face the road in the clothes he wore.
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