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Colouring a little under this compliment, Bella returned, 'I hope sir, you don't think me vain? 'Not a bit, my dear, said Mr Boffin. 'But I think it's very creditable in you, at your age, to be so well up with the pace of the world, and to know what to go in for. You are right. Go in for money, my love. Money's the article.
"They will presently, if only for a moment," said Courtenay; "when the dish you have ordered comes in there will be a deathly silence at the next table. No German can see a plat brought in for someone else without being possessed with a great fear that it represents a more toothsome morsel or a better money's worth than what he has ordered for himself."
In a little while they began to talk like a couple of old friends, and he told Sam all about 'is father, wot was a clergyman in the country, and Sam talked about a father of his as was living private on three 'undred a year. "Ah, money's a useful thing," ses the man. "It ain't everything," ses Sam. "It won't give you 'appiness. I've run through a lot in my time, so I ought to know."
"You won't fail me tomorrow?" "I'll do my best," she said, earnestly, struggling against depression. "She must take that money," he declared with great emphasis. "She must!" "And you think she will?" "Miss Sloane, I know she will," he said, a fatherly encouragement in his voice. "I'm seldom mistaken in people; and I know I've judged this woman correctly. Money's her weakness.
Is the ferryman your father?" "Yes, sir; he is." "Well, the money's gone," added Mr. Randall. "We will go back to the ferry-boat." "Did you find it?" asked John Wilford, as the bank director stepped into the bateau. "No; but I'm certain it has not gone to the bottom." "Where is it, then?" "I don't know; can you tell me?" Mr. Randall looked at the ferryman very sharply.
I don't know in the least what he was doing with this pillar of fire, but it was extraordinarily effective, and it made you feel you were getting your money's worth out of the show. Or, again, for mystery and romance, here is another scene on the Tigris between Amara and Kut. The evening is still. No breeze stirs the sliding surface of the river.
"If I had anything worth your taking I'd be glad to give it to you. What vain fools we women are!" "Aren't you, though!" laughed he. "And now it's all settled until you're on the stage, and free, and the money's paid back WITH interest. I shall charge you six per cent."
The gal's money's safe, ten thousand of it, and we've agreed that it'll be share and share; only, your'n bein' more than her'n, why, of course he must make up the difference." The son was far from being as shrewd as the father, or he would have instantly chosen the proper tack; but he was like a vessel caught in stays, and experienced considerable internal pitching and jostling.
'Trust me, I will indeed, said I, shaking hands with Ham earnestly. 'Thankee. Thankee, very kind, sir. One thing furder. I'm in good employ, you know, Mas'r Davy, and I han't no way now of spending what I gets. Money's of no use to me no more, except to live. If you can lay it out for him, I shall do my work with a better art.
"What is it?" she cried, putting her arm around Checkers and disarming him gently. "Nothing much," he began. "Nothing much," interrupted her father, "except that the Little Rock bank is busted, and all yer money's gone." Checkers reached for his stick, but Pert restrained him.
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