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Possagno is nothing if not Canova, and our guide, a boy, knew all about him, how, more especially, he had first manifested his wonderful genius by modeling a group of sheep out of the dust of the highway, and how an Inglese happening along in his carriage, saw the boy's work and gave him a plateful of gold napoleons. I dare say this is as near the truth as most facts.
"You do not think I would let you go off with empty pockets? I would give you any thing you may ask." "Really?" cried the vagrant. And looking at Jacques with a mingled expression of hope, surprise, and delight, he added, "You see I should want a good deal. Winter is long. I should want let me see, I should want fifty Napoleons!" "You shall have a hundred," said Jacques.
But you lose not the paper: put it away with the paper-money, quite safe. For yourself, this is half your pay I give you napoleons; ten. Count. And now once at the Chateau Sonnenberg, I repeat, you leave her in charge of two persons, one a woman, at the gate, and then back frrrrr.... Antonio-Pericles smacked on the flat of his hand, and sounded a rapid course of wheels.
"My system needs a tonic," said Merrihew. "We'll hold the funeral after to-night's play. Of all the damfool games, it's roulette." "And I can prove it," Merrihew replied. "I have just fifty dollars left." He took out the gold and toyed with it. "Can't you hear it?" he asked. "Hear what?" "The swan-song of these tender napoleons!"
And, by Jove, sir, rather than offend her, I paid the money up five hundred and sixty gold Napoleons, by Jove: besides three hundred which I lost when I had my revenge. "And I can't tell you at this minute whether I was done or not," concluded the Colonel, musing. "Sometimes I think I was: but then Caroline was so fond of me.
Yes, I declare the word came in my mind; and all the while, in another partition of the brain, I was glowing and singing for my new-found opulence. The pile of gold four thousand two hundred and fifty double eagles, seventeen thousand ugly sovereigns, twenty-one thousand two hundred and fifty Napoleons danced, and rang and ran molten, and lit up life with their effulgence, in the eye of fancy.
I believe his want of Conscience in some particulars is to be referred to his Salwaging Ethics; and your Cromwells, Caesars, and Napoleons have not been more scrupulous. But I shall part Company with him if I can do so without Injury to his Family. Posh's story is that after the letter of December 31st, 1873, FitzGerald tried to find him.
They consisted of three Napoleons, fifteen English sovereigns, four half-sovereigns, and eighteen one-franc pieces. In his trouser-pocket he had four Mexican dollars, and some cosmopolitan change of small value. "It's not very much," he muttered to himself after he had counted it, "but it ought to be sufficient for the business in hand.
Now it was undoubtedly a fine sentiment this of Müller's, and had we but fetched my two Napoleons before starting, I should have applauded it to the echo; but when I considered that something very nearly approaching to a franc had already filtered out of our pockets in passing through the fair, and that the hour of dinner was looming somewhat indefinitely in the distance, I confess that my soul became disquieted within me.
Of course he is glad of the chance; but at the same time he is doing us good service, and he has worked well since he came on board. It will help him to get a passage home." "Thank you, captain. That twenty napoleons may help me to get out of an English prison. I will manage a hiding place for them. And now I think, captain, we will be off at once at least as soon as we have had our dinner.
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