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There lives no man who can say that I cheated him of a guilder at cards, though I fear some others have my name standing in their books." When they rose from their game that night Adrian had won between three and four hundred florins.
You comprehend, my dear Rosa, a man may steal a guilder, and risk the prison for such a trifle, and, consequently, it is much more likely that some one might steal a hundred thousand guilders." "No one ever enters the garden but myself." "Thank you, thank you, my dear Rosa. All the joy of my life has still to come from you."
I think I prefer to keep the white coins, they have such a musical sound; besides, they have the image of the Virgin. If thou thinkest I ought to send some of the large red ones, too, I will do so." The "little yellow ones" were gold sovereigns; the "white coins" were silver Zwanziger; and the "large red ones" were copper medals of the Austrian minister of finance, worth half a guilder.
You know that will be a charge of another guilder: it is of no use to throw away money or time either." "Come to-morrow, come every hour, charge what you please; you shall certainly be paid," replied Philip, curling his lip with contempt. "Well, it is as you please. As soon as she is dead the cottage and the furniture will be yours, and you will sell them of course. Yes, I will come.
"Some people think she's rather crazy about you." Drene gazed into space. "But that wouldn't hurt her," added Guilder, in his calm, pleasant voice. "She's a straight little thing white and straight. She could come to no harm through a man like you." Drene continued to stare at space.
The stir made in the whole of the island by the establishment of the British Borneo Company affected even the sluggish flow of the Pantai life. Great changes were expected; annexation was talked of; the Arabs grew civil. Almayer began building his new house for the use of the future engineers, agents, or settlers of the new Company. He spent every available guilder on it with a confiding heart.
It appeared that if the traveller was anxious for facts about Java, the officials of that country were equally so in requiring the same from him, and he was obliged to fill in a printed form stating his age, birthplace, residence and occupation, etc., and, when this was done, pay one guilder and a half for his trouble.
I would have passed him, as holding both him and his master in Disdain, but he Arrested me, and beckoned me into an Entry, there to have some Speech. "My Patron is somewhat quick and hasty, and was uncommonly flustered by his mischance this morning," quoth the Rev. Mr. Hodge. "Nor perhaps did he use you as liberally as he should have done. Here is a golden guilder for you, honest man."
"Drop in on me at the office some time," he suggested to the youthful model, in a gracious tone born of absolute self-satisfaction. "For luncheon or dinner?" retorted the girl, with smiling audacity. "You may stay to breakfast also " "Oh, come on," drawled Guilder, taking his colleague's elbow.
The grain by this means fell still lower in price, and while we were there the people could not obtain more than four or five guilders in zeewan for a schepel of fine wheat, that is, sixteen stivers or one guilder of Holland money.
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