Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: June 16, 2025
With these thoughts in his mind, he drew a sheet of paper towards him, and dipping the rusty pen in the thick ink, prepared to question his visitors as to what they could do, with a view to sending them out to the Pactolus claim. 'Names? he asked, grasping his pen firmly in his left hand. 'Mine, said the stranger, bowing, 'is Gaston Vandeloup, my friend's Pierre Lemaire both French.
'I understand, he said, in a taunting tone; 'you want it for your lover. 'My lover? What do you mean? 'What I say, he retorted boldly, 'all Ballarat knows the position that young Frenchman holds in the Pactolus claim. Mrs Villiers felt herself grow faint the accusation was so horrible.
Bonaparte appeared to listen favourably to Fouche's recommendation, who, as avaricious for money as Bonaparte of glory, consoled himself by thinking that for these two years the administration of the gaming tables would still be for him a Pactolus flowing with gold.
Nuggets, some large, some small, began to be constantly discovered, and every day news was brought into Ballarat about the turning-up of a thirty-ounce or a twenty-ounce nugget in the Pactolus, when, to crown all, the news came and ran like wildfire through the city that a three hundred ounce nugget had been unearthed.
They appear never to have worked the gold-mines, whose particles were borne to them by the careless bounty of the Pactolus. Their early traditional colonies were wafted on Grecian vessels. The gorgeous presents with which they enriched the Hellenic temples seem to have been fabricated by Grecian art, and even the advantages of commerce they seem rather to have suffered than to have sought.
The sun sank, deepening the gold of the river until it might have been the stream of Pactolus itself. But Martin Morse had no imagination; he was not even a gold-seeker; he had simply obeyed the roving instincts of the frontiersman in coming hither. The land was virgin and unoccupied; it was his; he was alone.
On its southern side the citadel-rock was not so steep, and houses had been built upon it. Croesus' former palace lay to the north, on the golden-sanded Pactolus. Large gardens stretched away towards the east, and in the midst of them lay the lake Gygaeus, covered with gay boats and snowy swans, and sparkling like a mirror.
But at that cry of frenzy and despair hurled at wealth by the unfortunate man whom it held in its toils, whom it drenched and drowned in its floods of gold, and who struggled against it, calling for help from the depths of his Pactolus, the whole Chamber rose with fervent applause, with hands outstretched as if to give the unhappy Nabob those tokens of esteem which he seemed to covet so earnestly, and at the same time to save him from shipwreck.
Everything that he had forgotten a moment earlier returned to his mind; the prince's voice roared in his ears: "That honest Kranitski." He repeated a number of times to himself, in a hissing whisper, "honest! honest!" And then he said: "Wretchedness!" That Baron Emil, the young buck capable of gulping down many a Pactolus!
'Then, said Madame, earnestly, rising and looking him in the face, 'you must find Kitty, and send her back to me. 'Madame, said Vandeloup, solemnly, 'it will be the purpose of my life to restore her to your arms. There was great dismay at the Pactolus Mine when it became known that Vandeloup was going to leave.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking