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Even Black Paul, who was an old comrade of Big Sam the two having done much wickedness together paid no heed to his present treasons. "Let the old fool alone," he said; "we fare well, and our lives are easy, having three men to do the work of one. So say I, let us sail on and make merry with his good rum; his money-chest is heavy yet." "That's what I'm thinking of," said the sailing-master.
None enter there: all stand before the dragon-swarming doorway, and cast their offerings into the money-chest placed before the threshold; many making contribution of small coin, the very poorest throwing only a handful of rice into the box.
I described the uninhabited room with its white walls, where to the right of the brown door there had stood upon the table the small black money-chest, etc. The man, much struck, admitted the correctness of each circumstance even, which I could not expect, of the last."
The lord of the castle promised him that with much pleasure, and asked where he was going? Hans answered, "To the Griffin." "Oh! to the Griffin! They tell me he knows everything, and I have lost the key of an iron money-chest; so you might be so good as to ask him where it is." "Yes, indeed," said Hans, "I will do that."
Thereupon he told her everything; that he had to get a feather out of the Griffin's tail, and that there was a castle where they had lost the key of their money-chest, and he was to ask the Griffin where it was? that in another castle the daughter was ill, and he was to learn what would cure her? and then not far from thence there was a lake and a man beside it, who was forced to carry people across it, and he was very anxious to learn why the man was obliged to do it.
Eleseus had some notions of accounts, of course, and Uncle Sivert's money-chest, the famous bottle-case, had been opened and examined while he was there; he had had to go through all the accounts and make up a balance sheet.
"What is it quick?" he added, and his words were like a sharp grip upon Dan Welldon's shoulder. "Racing cards?" Dan nodded. "Yes, over at Askatoon; five hundred on Jibway, the favourite he fell at the last fence; five hundred at poker with Nick Fison; and a thousand in land speculation at Edmonton, on margin. Everything went wrong." "And so you put your hand in the railway company's money-chest?"
Finally, she must be above feeling any affront or mortification, and learn to consider herself in the light in which she is commonly regarded a sort of machine pertaining to the bank: just as much a part of the establishment, in fact, as the iron money-chest which stands in the office, and created solely for the advantage and convenience of her travelling country-people.
They came before us, and expressed their deep anxiety at not finding Sárvölgyi anywhere in the house: they had discovered his room open and unoccupied. His bedroom we did indeed find empty, his weapons were laid out on the table, the key of his money-chest was left in it, and the door of the room open. What could have become of him? We wanted to enter the door of the dining-room opposite.
Then she turned toward De Fervlans, and whispered, holding the lorgnette in front of her lips: "Mama leaves her money-chest in my care" adding, with naïve sarcasm, "which means that she has left me to battle with her creditors." The entire population of Fertöszeg was assembled on the public highway to welcome the new proprietress of the estate.
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