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When we returned nobody noticed us and I happened to look through a window before entering the house. Hastily I beckoned to Dupper. The Frenchman's cook was sitting on his bed with a pile of money the day's takings in front of him. He was dividing the pile into two halves. Taking one bill off the pile he would lay it to one side and say: "This is for Dupper."
They had not counted up their takings yet, but Bella felt sure that there was close on a sovereign in her purse; and they had besides an order for half a sack of potatoes, a bushel of cooking apples, and a pair of fowls. They scarcely knew what to do, they were so delighted. "Oh, Tom, won't father be glad!" Bella kept on saying; "and won't he be surprised when he hears about Rocket!
Incidentally, a condition of the concession was that Egypt need subscribe nothing, and as a consideration for the concession it was solemnly stipulated that for ninety-nine years the period for which the concession was given fifteen per cent, of the gross takings of the enterprise would be paid to the Egyptian treasury.
While he was speaking, the door opened and Soden, the hotelkeeper, excitedly entered the room. "Here, come across the road, quick. Come and have a look at it. Hang me if this doesn't beat cock-fighting. They've stuck up the pub and cleared off with the till and all the takings," he exclaimed. He led the way to his hotel, the front door of which was open.
M. Binet who had taken the further precaution of retaining Andre-Louis' own garments was thereby protected against the risk of his latest recruit absconding with the takings. Andre-Louis, without illusions on the score of Pantaloon's real object, agreed to it willingly enough, since it protected him from the chance of recognition by any acquaintance who might possibly be in Guichen.
Cibot undertook to provide Schmucke with breakfast and dinner; and Pons, finding his friend's breakfast very much to his mind, concluded a separate treaty for that meal only at the rate of eighteen francs. This arrangement, which added nearly ninety francs every month to the takings of the porter and his wife, made two inviolable beings of the lodgers; they became angels, cherubs, divinities.
Part of the gang would lower the stalks to the floor, where the rest working in trios would strip them, the first stripper taking the culls, the second the bright leaves, the third the remaining ones of dull color. Each would bind his takings into "hands" of about a quarter of a pound each and throw them into assorted piles.
On the other hand, brief as this miserable being is, it is none of the least of the miseries belonging to it, that if there is any miscreant whom you hate, or creature whom you despise, the ill-run of the chances shall be so against you, that in the over takings, turnings, and jostlings of life, pop! at some unlucky corner, eternally comes the wretch upon you, and will not allow your indignation or contempt a moment's repose.
He saw at once that she was guilty. She half rose from her chair, then she sat down again. "What on earth do you mean?" she cried. "You know quite well what I mean," replied he, "you would have had fifteen hundred of Voles' takings on those letters. You heard last night I had refused to part. He was only your agent. There's no use in denying it. He told me all."
Thus, though words of solace were vainly uttered in his presence, he found relief in a direction of his own choosing when left to himself. For a man of his habits the house and the hundred and twenty pounds a year which he had inherited from his mother were enough to supply all worldly needs. Resources do not depend upon gross amounts, but upon the proportion of spendings to takings.
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