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About $10,000 will do the trick. Have you got the money? "'Me? says I. 'I've got one Chili dollar, two real pieces, and a medio. "'Then if you've any last words, utter 'em, says that old reb. 'The roster of your financial budget sounds quite much to me like the noise of a requiem. "'Change the treatment, says I. 'I admit that I'm short.
"I'd like to put you up there. One advantage of membership is that its roster includes experts in every known line of erudition, from scarabs to skeeing. For example, I am now going to telegraph for aid from old Millington, who seldom misses a book auction and is a human bibliography of the wanderings of all rare volumes.
Well, to complete the roster of the patrol we might coax Horace Herkimer Crapsey to cast in his lot with us!" The boy named Josh laughed uproariously at the suggestion, and his merriment was shared to some extent by the other two, Carl Oskamp and George Cooper. Felix shook his head at them disapprovingly. "Just go slow there, fellows," he told them.
As it happened, we were all in high glee. I flattered myself that my conduct in the late affair would hoist me up a step or two on the roster for promotion, and my excellent friends were delighted at the idea of getting on shore. After the cloth had been drawn, Mr Bang opened his fire. "Tom, my boy, I respect your service, but I have no great ambition to belong to it.
An old friend, whom he had known while pursuing his law studies, had loaned him a hundred francs. In addition to that he had caused his name to be inscribed on the roster of a battalion of National Guards as soon as he was settled in his new quarters, and his pay, thirty sous a day, would be enough to keep him alive.
Lawson, and without reference to the roster let the senior officers be selected." The Adjutant went round to the respective divisions, and in a low voice warned Captain Blessington, and the four senior subalterns, for that duty.
"No doubt," returned Manual with a grim smile; "and yet methinks I could find present pleasure in shooting seven of them yes, just seven, which is one more than they have struck off my roster." "Remember your own wounded," added Griffith; "they suffer for want of aid, while you protract a useless defence."
One had raked success out of the fire of failure and had written what promised to be the season's dramatic sensation. One had earned the right to read her name, nightly, in Broadway's incandescent roster. I myself had been preserved from cannibal flesh-pots. All of us were seemingly brands snatched from the burning, and all of us were deeply miserable.
A big man with a bushy thatch of coarse graying hair and a heavy, fleshy face, he did not look like a brain. Yet Ross had been on the roster long enough to know that it was Millaird's thick and hairy hands that gathered together all the loose threads of Operation Retrograde and deftly wove them into a workable pattern.
His gesture included comprehensively the gorgeous room, the gorgeous assembly of socially elect, the speakers, and the liveried servants who were now approaching their corner with the "Roster." "But you have to start things somehow," Milly rejoined, remembering Hazel's arguments. "Social prestige counts in everything."
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