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Rubenstein I think that is his name can pay his five- hundred-pound fine and move on somewhere else. It's wicked the money they make here some nights!" "You seem to know a good deal about it," I remarked. "The place interests father," she told me. "He comes here often." "And you?" "Sometimes. I am not always in the humor." I looked at her long and thoughtfully.
If I want money to spend, I sell a railway share much as one might change a hundred-pound banknote; if I have more cash than I need immediately I buy a few shares. Why shouldn't it? I defy any economist or financial expert to prove that it cannot. That it hasn't done so in the little time for which it has existed is no reply at all.
A momentary confusion, as the thirty-eight nine-inch smooth-bore guns on the main-deck, the four hundred-pound rifles on the spar-deck, and the eleven-inch pivot on the forecastle were cleared of their tackle, and got ready for training. The guns' crews then stood erect and silent in their places beside the guns, on the side of the ship turned toward the enemy.
It rolled off and turned into Piccadilly. "How much was it, father?" Eve asked suddenly, from her place in the corner. "I am not sure," Mr. Parker answered. "There is a matter of eight hundred pounds in my right shoe, and a little more than that, I think, in my left. The note down my back was, I believe, a hundred-pound one. Quite a pleasant little evening and fairly remunerative!
"It would be interesting to have a motion-picture record of the thoughts which flash through the mind of the average inland fisherman the first time he feels the tiger-like swoop of a five-foot barrancuda, the fierce yank of a hundred-pound amber-jack, or the sullen surge of a big grouper on his line; for even when armed with the heaviest rod, and a line as big around as a silver dollar, he is pretty sure to wish, at least subconsciously, that his tackle might be twice as formidable and his arm twice as strong.
She forgot all about the paper which had been given her with the letter, while the hundred-pound note, which had been inclosed with it, had fluttered out unheeded as she drew it from the envelope, and now lay upon the floor at her feet. Later she examined the paper, and found a notice of the marriage of William Heath and Margaret Stanhope.
On searching a little more particularly, a hundred-pound note was found stitched into a small purse or bag, suspended from the infant's neck. We were all amazement. My wife was all at once persuaded that the infant must be the offspring of some lady of high quality, and that, by keeping her in our family, we should be absolutely enriched by presents of hundred-pound notes every other morning.
The scene between Danby and his mother, in the poky house in Charlotte Street, when she discovers that he has been giving a hundred-pound cheque to a young lady is impressingly good: it is not absolutely unsuggestive of what Thackeray was just doing, and really not far from what Trollope was not for some years to do.
"Are you a contemptible Wight, or does a true artist's heart beat in your breast? Would you fear to go, perhaps to your death, for this imperilled man?" "No, no!" cried the youth as joyously as if a hundred-pound weight had been lifted from his breast. "If it costs my life, so much the better! Here I am! Post me where you please, do with me as you will!
How the exchange had occurred he could not now understand, but to disbelieve that it had taken place would have been madness or self- deception. Now he also understood the doubts of Soteles and the King. Not he Myrtilus, and he alone, was the creator of the much-lauded Demeter! This conviction raised a hundred-pound weight from his soul. What was applause! What was recognition!
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