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Why should I, like a thief, any longer conceal a life, which in the counsels of the heavenly ministry has long been forfeited? ROBBERS. Let him go. He is infected with the great-man-mania; he means to offer up his life for empty admiration. CHARLES. I might, 'tis true, be admired for it. A reward has been offered of a thousand louis-d'ors to any one who shall deliver up the great robber alive.
The poor devil is now pretending to be scrupulous. He will not show his tricks unless he hears the sound of gold. There are nine of us. Let us make a collection. That will spoil his scheme, and perhaps open the eyes of the prince." "I am content." The Englishman threw six guineas upon a plate, and went round gathering subscriptions. Each of us contributed some louis-d'ors.
Medicines, however, were conveyed to me by the officers, and, now and then, warm food. After my recovery, I again thought it necessary to endeavour to regain my liberty. I had but forty louis-d'ors remaining, and these I could not get till I had first broken up the flooring. Lieutenant Sonntag was consumptive, and obtained his discharge.
And she began to count over the amount of the captain's score from the sailor's bag into the one that I was holding. It was a long, difficult business, for the coins were of all countries and sizes doubloons, and louis-d'ors, and guineas, and pieces of eight, and I know not what besides, all shaken together at random.
The executioner promised all that was requested, but declined a rouleau of a hundred louis-d'ors which the Marquis would have put into his hand. "I am paid by the king for fulfilling my office," said he; and added that he had already refused a like sum, offered by another relation of the Marquis. The Marquis de Crequi returned home in a state of deep affliction.
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