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She would sometimes extract and unfold a document for Aurora to look at; but Aurora would wave it aside with a careless, "You know I couldn't read it if I wanted to." At the end of the murmured conference Aurora would say, "Will you go and get my porte-monnaie?
But she did not know that her mamma's parting injunction had been, "you must not give her anything! I must indeed, I wish to teach my child a lesson." Little sun-hat and empty porte-monnaie put away, quietly she seated herself on the sofa opposite me, with two little fat feet hanging dangling down. Dignity kept her silent, and amusement mingled with pity made me so.
But Aunt Agnes apparently did not perceive my innuendo. "I dare say," said she with asperity. "That is because there are so many fools in the world." We sat in silence for some minutes. My aunt was so much excited that I could see her hands tremble as she put the obnoxious cutting back into her porte-monnaie. All of a sudden she looked at me over her glasses and said,
Gardener warmly pressed the hand that went so quickly into the little porte-monnaie and came out so generously filled. "Let me know how else I can help, and thank you very much for allowing me to have a share in your good works," said Rose, forgetting all about gay gowns as she watched the black bonnet go briskly away with an approving smile on the fine old face inside it. "You extravagant thing!
Holmes confessed to me that his porte-monnaie had been stolen from his fur overcoat the night we were there at the doctor's, and I saw her standing by it, patting it and pretending to admire it; and I know that she has been sending registered letters away, and that bills are constantly coming to her from the East. Mrs. Griffin told me so. And then Mr.
"Is this young man in love with her?" he asked himself. He turned around. "Do you know those ladies, Mr. Frowenfeld? Do you visit them at home?" He drew out his porte-monnaie. "No, sir." "I will pay you for the repair of this instrument; have you change for " "I will see," said the apothecary.
The lady had lost her porte-monnaie, and the crowd made some insulting remarks which I took the liberty of resenting, and when I saw the lady's face, to my amazement I recognized Margaret Harrison!" "And you protected her? You gave her money and took her to a place of safety?" said Trevlyn, anxiously. "Of course. As I should have done by any other lady but more especially for her.
I've got it here," she said, taking a dainty ivory porte-monnaie from her pocket and picking out with two slim finger-tips a folded slip of newspaper; "and I thought that maybe you might recognize the style of the writer, and perhaps know something of his history. For I believe he has one. There! that is only a part of the article, of course, but it is the part that interested me.
Dotty shut this, the largest bill she had ever owned, into her red porte-monnaie, feeling sure she should never want for anything again that money can buy. "There, now, Hollis," said Fly, drawing her mouth down and her eyebrows up, "where's my skipt? my skipt?" "What? A little snip like you mustn't have money," answered Horace, carelessly; "auntie gave it to me."
Sorry I haven't got any cards. Perhaps I may have one in my pocket-book. Let me see!" Mr. Lake opened his porte-monnaie and uttered a exclamation of surprise. "By Jove!" he said, "I am in a fix." Phil looked at him inquiringly. "I took out a roll of bills at the house of my aunt, where I stayed last night," explained Mr. Lake, "and must have neglected to replace them."
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