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Updated: June 19, 2025
The girl was taken away at her father's death by her uncle Frederick, who, having sown an unusual crop of wild oats, had married one of those inordinately wealthy American women to whom the sun itself appears little more than a magnified gold-piece and of course between the two she has had a very bad training.
With a single gold-piece, moreover, one could not even make a tinkle. She went into the inn to tidy herself before supper; but she hurried back to Monte as quickly as possible. Out of sight of him she felt as lost as a child in a forest. She had nothing to lean upon now but him. Without him here she would scarcely have had even identity. Her name, except as signed to a check, meant nothing.
She was looking at the ten-kronen piece. "Where is the other?" she asked in a whisper. "In my powder-box." Little Scatchett lifted the china lid and dropped the tiny gold-piece. "Every little bit," she said flippantly, but still in a whisper, "added to what she's got, makes just a little bit more." "Have you thought of a place to leave it for her? If Rosa finds it, it's good-bye.
The Silver Chain Hans could scarcely believe his own eyes. He ran every step of the way home, to show the gold-piece to his aunt; and, when she saw it, she was almost as pleased as he was. "You must buy something that you can keep always," she said. "What shall it be? a silver chain!" she cried, clasping her hands at the thought of it.
Robert watched him just a little envious of his assured manner as he threw down a gold-piece. While the fair cashier was making change he grinned at her. "How's my little girl tonight?" Reaching through the aperture, he chucked her suddenly beneath the chin. Tears of mortification sprang into her eyes. Impulsively Robert stepped forward, crowding the other aside none too gently.
"Didn't you find a gold-piece like Ben Holt did?" But it seemed she had never found anything. Indeed, once she had lost a dime, even on the way to spending it for five candy bananas and five jaw-breakers. Plainly she had chosen her good name without knowing of the case of Ben Holt.
The beggar, seizing the gold-piece, blesses him, and hopes that "Heaven will render to him according to his merits." Other beggars, from every corner, are about to rush upon him; but Nobili deftly escapes from these as he had escaped from the Marchesa Boccarini and her daughters, and is gone.
Madame Camilla had watched, with a very attentive and grave face, every word her mistress tittered, but now she hastened to smile. "Your highness," she said, "if we lived still in the days of the ancient gods, I would not trust any butterfly nor any bird, nay, not even a gold-piece, for, behind every thing, I should suspect Jove disguised, for the purpose of surprising my beautiful mistress."
I urged my horse into a gallop; the imp ran too, making at the same time strange contortions with his body, half-ridiculous, half-horrible, and holding up the gold-piece, he cried, at every leap, 'False money!, false coin!, false coin!, false money! and this he uttered with such a hollow sound that one would have supposed that after every scream he would have fallen dead to the ground."
"Well, really, my dear," replied Miss Blake, "the woman had nothin' to say, and so she said it. When I got through my speech I handed the five-dollar gold-piece to your Aunt Eunice, to send to the Asylum, and that ended it; for just then Dinah come in and said tea was ready, and we all went out.
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