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But the canteen-keeper objected to this. Even when Trautvetter offered him ten, twenty marks for the loan, he remained obstinate. The volunteer struck the counter furiously. "Pig-headed fool!" he cried. "Will you do it for fifty?" The canteen-keeper hesitated. He had settled up the day before; there was not much risk for him, and fifty marks ! "Give me your note-of-hand," he demanded,
The day-laborers of the neighborhood, and the small farmers, consider the Squire's note-of-hand for their savings better than the best bonds of city origin; and they seek his advice in all matters of litigation.
Or he'll give you his note-of-hand at fourteen days for the whole." "Bother his note-of-hand. Why should I take his note-of-hand?" "Do as you like, Mrs Van Siever." "It's the interest on my own money. Why don't he give it me? I suppose he has had it." "You must ask him that, Mrs Van Siever. You're in partnership with him, and he can tell you. Nobody else knows anything about it.
"As you are now in such high feather, can you, dearest Algernon! lend me five hundred pounds? Upon my soul and honor, I will repay you. Your brothers and sisters send you their love. I need not add, that you have always the blessings of your affectionate father, "P.S. Make it 500, and I will give you my note-of-hand for a thousand."
Remember, I've got your note-of-hand!" shouted Beetle. "You are a cold-blooded Jew," Stalky groaned. "Hush!" said McTurk very loudly indeed, and started as Prout came upon them. "I didn't see you in that disgraceful affair in the form-room just now," said he. "What, sir? We're just come up from Mr. King's," said Stalky.
'Thou seest how much I love thee, George, he said, 'that I stay behind in a moment like this. I forget whether I told thee Harry, that Florac was under some obligation to me. I had won money of him at cards, at Quebec only playing at his repeated entreaty and there was a difficulty about paying, and I remitted his debt to me, and lighted my pipe with his note-of-hand.
Dinneford went out. On the next day Granger saw Mrs. Dinneford in the store again. After she had gone away, Freeling came back, and laying a note-of-hand on his partner's desk, said, in a pleased, confidential way. "Look at that, my friend." Granger read the face of the note with a start of surprise. It was drawn to his order, for three thousand dollars, and bore the signature of Howard Dinneford.
"Even so, ye indigent millionnaires, and miserable bankrupt populations rolling in gold, whose note-of-hand will go to any length in Threadneedle Street, and to whom in Heaven's Bank the stern answer is, 'No effects! Bankrupt, I say; and Californias and Eldorados will not save us.
It's only the thought o' my poor children pulls me i' two." "Why, there's this to be thought on, Mrs. Moss," said Mr. Glegg, "and it's right to warn you, if Tulliver's made a bankrupt, and he's got a note-of-hand of your husband's for three hundred pounds, you'll be obliged to pay it; th' assignees 'ull come on you for it." "Oh dear, oh dear!" said Mrs.
"It would be a very good thing to let her have it if you've got it. The whole of it this morning, I mean." "If! yes, if!" said Broughton. "I know there's more than that at the bank." "And I'm to draw out every shilling that there is! I'll see Mother Van further first. She can have L500 if she likes it, and the rest in a fortnight. Or she can have my note-of-hand for it all at fourteen days."
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