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"I'm as good as my word, you see," he said with a complacent air of patronage. "There's the favour you asked me for; I'll take your IOU for it presently, if it's all the same to you as a matter of form and to be given back to you upon my wedding-day." The bailiff nodded assent, and dropped the bag into his pocket with a sigh of relief.
I've no interest in taking you there, don't suppose so; but the sun of its greatness is fast setting there's no such shaking of elbows as there used to be the IOU system knocked that up.
Trois belles princesses Vole vole mon coeur, vole! Trois belles princesses Sont assis dessous. Tout doux, et iou Et iou, tout doux. Sont asses dessous." She had a beautiful, strong, sweet voice. But it was faltering, stumbling and sometimes it seemed to drop almost to speech. After three verses she faltered to an end, bitterly chagrined. "No," she said. "It's no good. I can't sing."
There was only one thing about that IOU. It was written on the unused page torn from a letter, and the watermark of the paper was Lydgate Bond. It was the same size as Trojan Club paper too, for you know I belong to the Trojan Club, and Trojans are not men who write to outsiders much. Not on club paper anyway. In fact, the very audacity of the man led me to blame myself for doubting him.
I was so delighted at this that, as I signed the IOU with a swaggering air, I told him casually that the night before "I had been keeping it up with some friends at the Hotel de Paris; we were giving a farewell party to a comrade, in fact, I might say a friend of my childhood, and you know a desperate rake, fearfully spoilt of course, he belongs to a good family, and has considerable means, a brilliant career; he is witty, charming, a regular Lovelace, you understand; we drank an extra 'half-dozen' and ..."
To you belongs the honor of saving the credit of the family; I can claim nothing but the inferior merit of having offered you the opportunity. "My IOU, it is needless to say, accompanies these lines. Can I do anything for you abroad? Troy's narrative of the theft to the French police, altering nothing in it but the number of the lost bank-note. What is there left to write about?
He dressed well, too or neatly, to be nearer the truth; there was no great style to his make-up. Of course, Brauer was not married, but Starratt could never remember a time, even before he took the plunge into matrimony, when he was not going through the motions of smoothing old Wetherbee into a good-humored acceptance of an IOU tag.
At last I 'prevailed, shall I say? but on no account without the solemnity of an IOU and a fixed date for repayment, on which matter poor N. was always extremely emphatic. Alas! Mr. George Meredith has already told us how this passionate anxiety to be bound by the heaven above, the earth, and the waters under the earth, is the most fatal symptom by which to know the confirmed in this kind.
How intelligent the educated class in Russia used to be, and what lofty ideas it had of honour and friendship; how they used to lend money without an IOU, and it was thought a disgrace not to give a helping hand to a comrade in need; and what campaigns, what adventures, what skirmishes, what comrades, what women! And the Caucasus, what a marvellous country!
"What did you expect when you discounted the IOU?" he heard a metallic voice. "I . . . Handrikov promised to lend me the money before now." Sasha could say no more. He went out of the study and sat down again on the chair near the door.
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