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Updated: May 17, 2025
Had he held it but a little tighter, he thought, it must have remained in his hand even after his awakening. "Heavens!" he exclaimed, heaving a sorrowful sigh, "had I but the moiety of that wealth!" And again in his mind's eye he saw the rouleaus streaming from the sack.
"Really but that is hardly our affair, is it?" said Pete carelessly. The banker smote the shelf with an angry hand; some of the rouleaus of gold stacked on the inner shelf toppled and fell; gold pieces clattered on the floor. "Johnson, what is your motive? What are you up to?" "It's all perfectly simple. Old Hank and me used to be implicated together in the cow business down on the Concho.
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 play was heavy at the Rouge-et-noir table; a Russian and two Frenchmen the latter of whom, judging from their appearance, and from the complicated array of calculations on the table before them, were professional gamblers extracted, at nearly every coup, notes or rouleaus of gold from the grated boxes in front of the bankers.
Suhm is also helpful in finance difficulties, which are pretty frequent; works out subventions, loans under a handsome form, from the Czarina's and other Courts. Which is an operation of the utmost delicacy; perilous, should it be heard of at Potsdam. All these loans, I will hope, were accurately paid one day, as that from George II. was, in "rouleaus of new gold."
The prince, whom the foregoing scene had left in not the happiest frame of mind, was pacing angrily up and down the room; the rouleaus of gold were still lying on the table; I stood at the window, counting the panes of glass in the procurator's house opposite. There was a long pause. At length the prince broke silence. "F !" he began, "I cannot bear to see dismal faces about me."
Go about your business, my good friends; you have all you want; and, my lord, after dinner, when you are cool, I hope I shall be able to make you sensible that things have been represented to your lordship in a mistaken light; and I flatter myself I shall convince you I have not only always acted the part of a friend to the family, but am particularly willing to conciliate your lordship's goodwill, said he, sweeping the rouleaus of gold into a bag; 'any accommodation in my power, at any time.
Everything was in perfect order; not even a paper was misplaced. The safe was open, and on the top shelf lay several rouleaus of gold, overlooked or disdained by the thieves. M. Fauvel, without troubling himself to examine anything, took a seat, and ordered his cashier to do the same. He had entirely recovered his equanimity, and his countenance wore its usual kind expression.
However, the Queen added that she knew Madame de Favras was in want, and that she desired me to send her next day, through a person who could be relied on, a few rouleaus of fifty Louis, and to direct that she should be assured her Majesty would always watch over the fortunes of herself and her son.
"I have one more duty to perform," replied Vanslyperken, taking some rouleaus of gold out of his pocket; "this is the money received from the traitors it is not for a king's officer to have it in his possession." "You are right, Mr Vanslyperken, but the gold of traitors is forfeited to the crown, and it is now mine; you will accept it as a present from your king."
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