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Outside, at the pump, a lounging hostler, who had been bribed to keep a sharp lookout for a Shaker wagon, whistled and waited too. "Tell you what," said Hiram, bolting a goodly rouleau of ham and eggs, "I've got an idee. You and me might shilly-shally here on this road all day, and what surety shall we hev' that they hevn't gone by the other road. Old gal said there was two?"
A last service I ask of you, sir," said Louise, drawing out the rouleau of gold from her pocket; "will you hand this money to M. Germain? I promised him not to tell any one that he was employed at Ferrand's; but since you know it, I have not been indiscreet. Now, sir, I repeat, before God, who hears me, and before you, I have not said a word that is not true.
"Ah," cried Rouleau, beside himself. "It is what you call? One cheat! cheat!" The lieutenant sat up straight in his chair. "Do you mean that I cheated you?" he said, with slow emphasis. "Beware what you say." "Oui!" cried the Frenchman; "sacr-r-re so I mean!"
What would be Diana's conduct when she found herself left thus alone, and despised by the society of which she had hoped to be a queen? Would she not, in her turn, seek to revenge herself on Norbert? He had just asked himself whether at this juncture death would not be a blessing to him, when he caught sight of Francoise, the daughter of the Widow Rouleau, close by him.
I pressed his hand warmly, and whispered to him that I had fifty in my pocket, which I was afraid to shew him, for fear the rascals around might rob me. He put back his rouleau, and bade me farewell in tears, and I promised to come and see him as soon as I should be set at liberty. He had not sent in his name, and as he was very well dressed he was taken for a man of importance.
She really was a very pretty girl, her feelings overpowered her, and she fainted in her attempt to throw herself at my feet; I soon revived her by the aid of those restoratives which my staring people stupidly did not try to offer, and then to send her away perfectly happy and cheerful, I slipped into the pocket of her apron a rouleau of fifty louis which the king had given me for her use.
He played at first with more than his usual success, but late at night his fortune suddenly changed; he lost lost till at last he stopped, and rising from table, said he had no more money, and he could play no longer. Connal, who was not one of the players, but merely looking on, offered to lend him any sum he pleased. "Here's a rouleau here are two rouleaus what will you have?" said Connal.
The cards were drawn; he won: the banker, to pay him the ten louis, took a rouleau from the bank. Chance willed that he lighted on the leaden rouleau. He endeavoured to break it open by striking it on the table: the rouleau withstood his efforts. The gambler, without deranging his features, then said to the banker; "Mind you don't break it."
Don Ippolito, as if his whole race had renounced him in the maniac's words, uttered a desolate cry, and hiding his face in his hands, tottered into his house. The rouleau had dropped from his palm; it rolled down the shelving marble of the quay, and slipped into the water. The young beggar who had held Mrs.
To this my aunt most graciously acceded, and when at length I took my leave with such gratitude in my heart that what words I could think of seemed but clumsily to express it I bore in the breast of my doublet a letter to Don Juan de Cordova a noble of great prominence at the Spanish Court and in the pocket of my haut-de-chausses a rouleau of two hundred gold pistoles, as welcome as they were heavy.
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