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Updated: June 6, 2025
"I've brought you more money to invest, Mr Wilkins," said John Jack, sitting down after wiping his forehead, and producing a fat pocketbook; "I thought of doin' it in the old way, but my wife and I have been thinkin' that perhaps it might be wise to put some of the eggs in another basket." A very sad and peculiar smile flitted for a moment across Mr Wilkins's face.
The conversation turned upon a war which the king had just brought to a happy conclusion against the prince of Hircania, his vassal. Zadig, who had signalized his courage in this short war, bestowed great praises on the king, but greater still on the lady. He took out his pocketbook, and wrote four lines extempore, which he gave to this amiable person to read.
But the other continued: "Hold your tongue, daddy; there's one who finds it and there's another who returns it. And no one the wiser." The farmer was speechless. He understood at last. They accused him of having had the pocketbook brought back by an accomplice, by a confederate. He tried to protest. The whole table began to laugh.
I sent word to them both, at least I tried to, and rushed gayly down into Dixie. Perhaps you never heard of the bursting of that first Birmingham boom? It was an abrupt but very-complete smash. I came out of it owning two gorgeous suits of clothes, one silk hat, and an opulent-looking pocketbook, bulging with thirty-day options on corner lots.
I was walking along the road, and, as the day was hot, I took off my coat and carried it on my arm, taking good care to feel every moment or two of the pocketbook, for the hard-earned fifteen dollars was to pay my entrance at the college. "After a while I got to thinking over what college life would be like, and forgot all about the pocketbook for some time, and when I looked again it was gone!
"I never said you did, but you asked an explanation of the German philosopher, and the German philosopher has done his best to give you one." She locked her pocketbook in the cabinet again, and there the matter ended between them.
"Cheer up, my lass," he said, kindly; "I too have missed the coach, and I too must reach Brussels to-night. I have two thousand francs in notes and gold in my pocketbook, which are the savings of a lifetime, and I am going to pay them into the bank tomorrow. Then I shall give up my trade and start a little shop." "I would not talk too much about them in the meantime, friend.
"You are your sly mother's own darling imp," growled Braun, bringing out his pocketbook. "She was the devil's own, too, before she got old and lost her good looks," he sighed. "Tell me," said he, selecting a note with grave deliberation, "how much did Clayton deposit to-day?" "Only thirty-eight thousand," contemptuously answered the boy, as he clutched the note now held out to him.
Among these was a pocketbook, which your father picked up and gave him back; and he put it in his coat-pocket there was a tear in one of the sides of the book, and through the hole some bank-notes bulged out. Well, he shared his food, like an honest fellow, with us; and then put his hand in his pocket, and gave me four or five livres, and then lay down before the fire to go to sleep.
I was pretty nigh as much surprised as Labe. The idea of a man with a chronic case of lockjaw of the pocketbook, same as Jonadab had worried along under ever sence I knew him, suddenly breakin' loose with a notion to go to New York on a pleasure cruise! 'Twas too many for me. I set and looked at him. "'Oh, I mean it, Barzilla, he says.
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