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Once more Joe Rix was shocked to the verge of gaping, but again he exercised a power of marvelous self control "About that," he remarked as pointedly as before, "I got my doubts. Because there's some things that any gent with sense will always clear away from. Maybe not one man but say a bunch of all standin' together." Donnegan leaned back in his chair and waited.
Then the governor consented to the sequestration, and paid to the Poles and Muscovites four hundred thousand rix dollars, to indemnify them for the expense of the siege. The king of Sweden returning from Turkey, rejected the treaty of sequestration, and insisted upon Stetin's being restored, without his repaying the money.
Her marriage-portion was deemed, for the times, an ample one; she had seventy thousand rix dollars in hand, and the reversion of thirty thousand on the death of John Frederic the Second, who had married her mother after the death of Maurice.
All our most important poets have had a share of this assistance, Oehlenschl ger, Ingemann, Heiberg, C. Winther, and others. Hertz had just then received such a pension, and his future life made thus the more secure. It was my hope and my wish that the same good fortune might be mine and it was. Frederick VI. granted me two hundred rix dollars banco yearly. I was filled with gratitude and joy.
On the outskirts of this tide, Donnegan stepped up to two men, Joe Rix and the Pedlar. They greeted him with expectant glances. "Gentlemen," said Donnegan, "will you step aside?" They followed him to a distance from the clamoring group. "I have to thank you," said Donnegan. "For what?" "For changing your minds," said Donnegan, and left them.
I envied every man who had birth or wealth or position. I had some brains, but was poor, burdened with the care of a vagabond brother who was well-nigh a jail-bird, and whose only talent was penmanship. He would have been a forger then if it hadn't been for me. For me he afterwards became one. You know who I mean now Rix. Mr. Winthrop gave me opportunities, and I worked.
Rix, released, trotted away. "Guess he'll stay out of fox-tail after this," said Sid. "I dunno," said Dave. "Critters walk right into trouble with their eyes wide open. I'm going to make bread now." Sid followed into the shanty, and watched Dave stir together sour milk and soda for bread. The ranch was away in the hills, much too far from any town for visits from the baker's wagon.
I then told them why I had come to Copenhagen, and how forlorn I was there. One of the women, therefore, gave me more, bread and butter, with fruit and cakes. On the following morning I paid my bill, and to my infinite trouble I saw that my whole wealth consisted in one rix dollar banco.
How much the past tense may mean! "Poor fellow," murmured the sympathetic Donnegan. "But why," with gathering heat, "couldn't you help me to do the thing I can't do alone? Why couldn't you get him away from the house?" "With Joe Rix and the Pedlar guarding him?" "They'll be asleep in the middle of the night." "But Jack would wake up and make a noise."
In Lebrun's." "And what will be in Lebrun's?" "Joe Rix to guard him and the old negress to nurse him." "No, no! Nelly Lebrun will be there!" "Eh? Are you glancing at her, now?" "Henry, you yourself know that Landis is mad about that girl." "Oh, she's flirted a bit with him. Turned the fool's head. He'll come out of it safe. She won't break his heart. I've seen her work on others!"
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