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Updated: June 27, 2025
The sheik now drew rein. "Do you see that black line standing out against the evening sky? That is your camp. If you desire it, I will accompany you farther. It rests with you to decide." "I will ride on alone, sheik. Farewell, and accept this for your hospitality." He held out to the sheik a purse filled with gold-pieces. The latter proudly rejected it.
Taking his empty canteen from his own saddle, he untied the sacks and slipped the gold-pieces, one by one, into the canteen. He scooped up sand and filled the canteen half full. The gold no longer jingled as he shook it. While Waring had no fear that either of the men would attempt to escape, he knew Mexicans too well to trust Armigo explicitly.
"Some time after my arrival in France, I played with him and with the Duchesse de Beaufort at Fontainebleau; for he wished, he said, to win my gold-pieces, my fine Portugal money. He asked me the reason why I came into this country.
"The princess receives no one," said the servant, placing himself in a position to prevent the stranger's entrance. "She will receive me," said the unknown, dropping some gold-pieces into the servant's hand. "I will conduct you to her," said the suddenly mollified servant, "but I do it on your own responsibility." Princess Natalie was in her boudoir.
These two dresses and the gold-pieces, of which she received two others on New Year's day and on her father's fete-day, gave Eugenie a little revenue of a hundred crowns or thereabouts, which Grandet loved to see her amass. The "marriage dozen" is an old custom sacredly preserved and still in force in many parts of central France.
When he was gone, she sadly counted from one hand into the other the twenty-three gold-pieces that were left, when suddenly a thought occurred to her, that might have saved her, if she had followed it out. It was the thought of leaving the house by stealth, of going to the station of the Orleans Railway, and of taking the first train for the home of Daniel's aunt.
He drew from under his cloak as he spoke the pistol which I had left with the king, and which happened to be the same M. de Rosny had given me. I took it, marvelling impatiently at the careful manner in which he handled it; but in a moment I understood for I found it loaded to the muzzle with gold-pieces, of which two or three fell and rolled upon the floor.
Money, ma'am! there's thousands in that voice! It sings bank-notes and gold-pieces, every note of it. You'll be a rich woman, and she will be a great singer, one of the very greatest. Her being blind makes it all the better. I wouldn't have her like other people, not for anything. The blind prima-donna, my stars! wouldn't it draw? I see the posters now. 'Nature's greatest marvel, the blind singer!
If John could have had his way, he would have discovered a cave full of diamonds, and lots of nail-kegs full of gold-pieces and Spanish dollars, with a pretty little girl living in the cave, and two beautifully caparisoned horses, upon which, taking the jewels and money, they would have ridden off together, he did not know where.
Let me say, as I most gladly do, Mohammed Ali let me say, the most faithful of my friends! Does that please you?" Mohammed replied with a profound bow only, and then silently withdrew. The hour had not yet passed, and his soldiers waited peaceably, as he had commanded them. The Nubian slave of the viceroy followed his horse, carrying the ten purses of gold-pieces.
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