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These sacks in the market open to all to thrust their hands in are not sacks of corn but of golden sovereigns, half-sovereigns, new George and the dragon, old George and the dragon, Sydney mint sovereigns, Napoleons, half-Napoleons, Belgian gold, German gold, Italian gold; gold scraped and scratched and gathered together like old rags from door to door.
"Here," said Sleepinbuff, interrupting, and giving Mother Bunch a purse; "take this all the expenses here have been paid beforehand this is what remains of my last bag. You will find here some twenty-five or thirty Napoleons, and I cannot make a better use of them than to serve a comrade in distress.
On one occasion he returned with a grave face, saying to Lord Rooster, "She has the other one in hand. We are going to see." "Trente-six encor! et rouge gagne," cried the croupier with his nasal tone, Monsieur de Florac's pockets overflowed with double Napoleons, and he stopped his play, luckily, for Kew putting down his winnings, once, twice, thrice, lost them all.
For this he received a large reward, and the Prince of Montenegro, having heard of him and his deeds, sent for him, pardoning all his previous offences, besides giving him one hundred napoleons. Achmet now settled down at his present home near Podgorica, but was caught by the Turks and imprisoned on a false charge for four months, when he was able to prove an alibi.
And then another croupier put down, close to Burgo's money, certain rolls of gold done up in paper, and also certain loose napoleons. "Why doesn't he take it?" said Lady Glencora. "He is taking it," said Alice, not at all knowing the cause of her cousin's anxiety.
But the Napoleons of finance to-day will be wearing stripes in Sing Sing to-morrow. We are merely passing through a period of transition which brings suffering and confusion. The end is sure, because evil carries within itself the seed of death. A despotism of money cannot be fastened on the people of America."
Sentence was passed in contempt, and I read the news in the papers on my way to Paris. There is the whole history." "Have you any money?" inquired Margaret after a pause. "Mon Dieu! I have still a hundred napoleons. After that the deluge." "By that time we shall be ready for the deluge," said Margaret cheerfully. "I have many friends, and something may yet be done.
We decorate history with our Napoleons and Wellingtons, but it was better for the world that steam was demonstrated to be an active, manageable force, than that a French Emperor and his army should win the battle of Austerlitz.
"A human life is always sacred, and if not certain of your remedy, it is as vicious to give it to a beggar as to a king." "I believe," said Ellart, "as entirely in this remedy as Louis the Fourteenth, who bought it secretly from Talbot, the Englishman, and paid him a hundred Napoleons for a pound. The wife of the King of Spain was cured by it."
Seven hundred napoleons a year will be a magnificent rental there." Frederic shook his head. "You do not know how one expense leads to another. Above all, you do not calculate the chief part of one's expenditure, the unforeseen. You will play at the Jockey Club, and lose half your income in a night." "I shall never touch a card." "So you say now, innocent as a lamb of the force of example.
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