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Updated: June 19, 2025
Also, he offered a five-dollar bill, which Li Choo refused to take. When he persisted, the Chinaman opened his loose blue jacket and showed a ten-dollar gold-piece on a string around his neck. "Mlissy Mazaline glive me that; it all plenty me," he said. "You want me come, I come. What you say do, I do. I say gloddam Mazaline!"
"But I could enjoy them all more if I had not lost my money. Oh, my beautiful gold-piece with the " "Likeness of Kaiser Frederick upon it," finished Franz. "Oh, Fritz, do give us a rest! It is gone, and if you tell it a thousand times, it will not make the thief bring it back and put it in your pocket.
Jeanne had broken an engagement with the poet chap to dine with him. Later that evening he tipped an astonished French waiter with a gold-piece. He and Jeanne walked under a full moon until midnight. Two months after the Stanleys' departure Francisco and Jeanne were married and took up their abode in the Stanley home. Francisco worked diligently at his novel.
The young man refused the proffered cigar, picked up the gold-piece and strolled out. The sheriff leaned back in his chair. "Well if Billy feels that way toward folks, reckon he won't get far with John, or anybody else. Too dinged bad. He used to be a good kid." Fadeaway, one of the Concho riders, urged his cayuse through the ford, reined short, and turned to watch Chance, who accompanied him.
From stand to stand they went, betting Remorse in each book, ten and twenty dollars at a time; not enough to cause remark, but amounting to hundreds in the aggregate. Gradually the odds began to recede. Checkers rushed to the other end of the ring. "Gimme Remorse!" he exclaimed, excitedly, handing his gold-piece to a convenient blockman. "What the 'ell's this?" asked the wondering book-maker.
It is, we may say, the relation of the gold-piece to the small change, if we suppose the change to offer itself automatically as soon as the gold piece is presented.
He saw her eyes were welling over with tears. "You were crying again last night," he said sharply. "Yessir." "But what did you have to cry about now? Aren't you the luckiest girl in the world?" "Yessir." As she spoke a flood of sunlight poured suddenly into the room; the sun had broken through the clouds, the worn dollar had become a dazzling gold-piece. The canary stirred in its cage.
"Monsieur should not be unkind," sighed Soucin. "It is a necessity and not a wish." "You have done as well as you could," Monte reassured him. "We shall probably rise early and be on our way before the soldiers, so " Monte slipped into his hand a gold-piece. It was too much from one point of view, and yet from another it was little enough.
Then he ground at the law till six, when he swung his clubs and dumb-bells for ten minutes; took a shower; dressed himself, and dined. Then he went into his study, and opened a drawer. Did he find therein a box of cigars, or a bunch of violets, gold-piece, ribbon and sheet of paper? One thing is certain. Peter passed another evening without reading or working.
In the morning Monsieur Grandet, following his usual custom on the days that commemorated the birth and the fete of Eugenie, went to her bedside and solemnly presented her with his paternal gift, which for the last thirteen years had consisted regularly of a curious gold-piece. Madame Grandet gave her daughter a winter dress or a summer dress, as the case might be.
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