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Their diamond cluster pins are as resplendent as crystal door-knobs. Fair hands, fresh from the healthful contact of washing-soda, wave recognition to him from coupe or victoria. In some cases these are driven by the millionnaire himself, who insists on "holding the ribbons."
"Yes, sire, she will become the wife of the count only with the count's assurance that she will be presented at court, and be received according to her new rank." "Truly," said the king, with ironical laughter, "this little millionnaire thinks it an important point to appear at my court." "It appears so, sire; it seems that this is a greater glory than to possess a count for a husband."
She wished to hide her ignoble birth under the glitter of his proud name; it was better to be the wife of a poor baron than the daughter of a tailor, even though he should be the court tailor, and a millionnaire. The king had been in Berlin but two days, and Pollnitz had already made a visit to his beautiful Anna.
Her husband had an eye for them, having begun life as a jeweller's apprentice, and having developed sufficient sharpness of vision in other directions to become a millionnaire, and a Congressman, and to let his wife do as she pleased. What goes forth from the lips may vary in dialect, but wine and oysters speak the universal language.
No, sir; two hundred thousand pounds are necessary to make a rich man, and not a penny less, sir not a penny, sir." "Thim's me own sintimints intirely," said the chief; "that shuits me, so it does. I saw by the cut av yez that ye must be a millionnaire at laste so I did." "A millionnaire!" said Russell, with affected modesty.
'We have done something, Frank, to keep up the Meeker name in New York, said the millionnaire, when that topic was exhausted. 'You are at the top of the profession, and I I have accomplished a good deal. Hiram spoke in such a genial, mellow tone, that Frank was touched. 'Yes, he replied; 'you have at least achieved wonders. Do you remember what mother used always to prophesy about you?
"Moreover," I said, "think of the position of the millionnaire. He spends his time playing not with life, but with the symbols of life, whether cash or houses. Not knowing how to produce anything himself, he would starve to death if there were not always, somewhere, a farmer to take him up to the table." "You're making a strong case," laughed John Starkweather. "Strong!" I said.
Ever since the squire's grandfather had left him then in short clothes a legacy of L500, the captain had peopled the future with expectations! He talked of his expectations as a man talks of shares in a Tontine; they might fluctuate a little, be now up and now down, but it was morally impossible, if he lived on, but that he should be a millionnaire one of these days.
I confess my recognition of him was not so joyful as on the day ten years earlier, when he had come, bedizened with lace and gold rings, to see us at C school: a man in the tenth part of a century learns a deal of worldly wisdom, and his hand, which goes naturally forward to seize the gloved finger of a millionnaire, or a milor, draws instinctively back from a dirty fist, encompassed by a ragged wristband and a tattered cuff.
Cliff's present circumstances. Burke felt a little embarrassed in regard to his answers. He knew that Mrs. Cliff was very anxious not to appear as a millionnaire in the midst of the friends and associations of her native town, at least, that she did not desire to do so until her real financial position had been gradually understood and accepted.
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