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I have made a bank of four thousand ducats that you may be able to recoup yourself for your losses." "Thanks, I promise to break it or to lose as much." I drew out six thousand ducats, gave two thousand ducats to the Duke de Matalone, and began to punt at a hundred ducats. After a short time the duke left the table, and I finally succeeded in breaking the bank.
I don't suppose we need pistols." Sir Frank laughed, as, aided by the artist, he struggled into his military greatcoat. "I don't suppose that Mrs. Jasher will be dangerous," he remarked. "We'll get what we can out of her, and then arrange what is best to be done to recoup her fallen fortunes. Then she can go where she chooses, and we can, as the French say return to our muttons."
Craven, "do I clearly understand that I am to recoup myself out of Colonel Morris' first payment?" "I said so as plain as I could speak," agreed Miss Blake; and her speech was very plain indeed. Mr. Craven lifted his eyebrows and shrugged his shoulders, while he drew his cheque-book towards him. "How is Helena?" he asked, as he wrote the final legendary flourish after Craven and Son.
Do you think there are a sea of Kazelias in the world? You are all thick-headed. You can't read a letter. I only took fifty-four roubles on the luggage; I had to recoup myself because I lost money through sending you to London.
By the middle of August dressmakers and upholsterers had received the necessary instructions, and could be left to complete their work, while the tired little bride-elect went north to recoup her energies. How glad she was to escape from London only Lettice herself knew; while at Cloudsdale, the whole house was turned upside down in excitement at the prospect of her arrival.
These particular people had come to Rome with reminiscences of in-expensiveness and had intended to recoup themselves for the cost of several previous winters in New York hotels by the saving they would make in their Roman sojourn.
Unless the freight is paid at once, and delivery taken forthwith, I will proceed to New Zealand and sell to recoup myself. W. H. Hayes."
In the present case, our luggage had been sent on to Mentone by mistake, although properly labelled for Nice, and when we regained possession, one of the trunks was so knocked about that it cost fifteen francs to have it repaired, and in reply to my application to the railway authorities to recoup me, I was simply told, with the usual French shrug of the shoulders as if to get rid of a disagreeable burthen, that it could not be entertained.
He thinks," continued Primrose with her sweet, grave smile, "that I may be able to recoup myself for the expense of learning at the end of a few months." "And now," said Jasmine, "what am I to do? It's all settled for you, Primrose you will be an artist and you shall paint a breakfast set for our nest in your odd moments, and I'll buy it from you when my ship comes home.
The attempt of England to recoup herself for the expenses of the war by a rigid enforcement of the Navigation Laws an enforcement that paralyzed commerce, and turned the open evasion of honorable merchantmen into the treasonable acts of smugglers grieved Connecticut; the Sugar Act provoked her, and the proposed Stamp Act drove her to remonstrance.
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