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Then, taking a rouleau of 1,000 francs, he put it in the man's hand, saying, 'One must honour goodness wherever it is shown. Lastly, the Emperor gave some pieces of gold to each of the other two prisoners, and ordered that they too should be sent back to the Austrian outposts, so that they might forget the fright which we had caused them, and that it might not be said that any soldiers, even enemies, had spoken to the Emperor of the French without receiving some benefit.
"I congratulate you, and wish you good luck." "I hope you will come to supper at my house." "I should be only too happy, but unfortunately I have an engagement; but I will come and see you if you will give me your address." So saying, I slipped into her hand a rouleau, it being the fifty louis I owed her. "What is this?" "The money you lent me so kindly at Konigsberg."
He said to me, quickly, placing a rouleau in my hand, 'Your father will be arrested early to-morrow morning; here is the money; as soon as it is day run to his house. It is only to-day I have found out Ferrand; he is a bad man; I will unmask him. Do not, above all, say that you have this money from me. And M. Germain, not giving me time to thank him, descended the stairs quickly."
The next morning brought a packet from him containing a rouleau of guineas, and so soon as they were counted, the girl hurried to the room on the ground floor which the commissary had taken as a half office, and, after an apology for the unannounced intrusion, said,
The Prince of Noirbourg bade his beleaguered lieutenant not to lose heart: he himself never for a moment blenched in this trying hour of danger. The Contrebanquists still went on victorious. Rouleau after rouleau fell into their possession. At last the news came: The Emperor has joined the Grand Army. Lenoir himself had arrived from Paris, and was once more among his children, his people.
As when two mighty giants step out of a host and engage, the armies stand still in expectation, and the puny privates and commonalty remain quiet to witness the combat of the tremendous champions of the war: so it is said that when the Contrebanque arrived, and ranged itself before the officers of Lenoir rouleau to rouleau, bank-note to bank-note, war for war, controlment for controlment all the minor punters and gamblers ceased their peddling play, and looked on in silence, round the verdant plain where the great combat was to be decided.
Nearer he came, and nearer, until once more his grim visage was seen peeping round the screen. In an agony of terror the young man dropped the rouleau, made a desperate effort to stir his limbs, uttered a great cry and awoke.
She understood him; she was moved, too, by the inflexion of his voice. She was not so cold, not so negligent, as the world called her. "I had passed my word to grant it; I cannot retract," she answered him, after a pause. "I will press nothing more on you. But as an obligation to me can you find no way in which a rouleau of gold would benefit your men?" "No way that I can take it for them.
"'It is true, Sire, said he, with a sad effort at a smile; 'it is only on your Majesty fortune always smiles. "'Pardieu! you must not say so; I lost a rouleau last night. But whom have we here? "'My son; so please you, Sire, my only son, who desires, at an earlier age than even his father did, to serve your Majesty.
"Never mind, kinsman," said Rob, laughing; "it will aye open for a friend's necessity, or to pay a just due and here," he added, pulling out a rouleau of gold, "here is your ten hundred merks count them, and see that you are full and justly paid." Mr.
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