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He took a ten-franc piece out of his pocket as he spoke, and handed it to the gratified cabman: "It doesn't seem too much for a drive through fairyland" he said aside to his wife. And Nancy nodded contentedly. It pleased her that her Jack should be generous the more that she had found out in the last three weeks that if generous, he was by no means a spendthrift.
And these he did not care about. He said no word, but stood there watching the others and trying to laugh, only keeping the tears back with the greatest difficulty. From his position in the background Rogers took it all in. He moved up and slipped a ten-franc piece into the boy's hand. 'Secretaries don't wear clothes like this, he whispered.
"Do you think I might put down ten francs?" she whispered to Anna. And the other laughed, and exclaimed, "Yes, of course you can!" Sylvia put down a ten-franc piece, and a moment later it had become twenty francs. "Leave it on," murmured Anna, "and see what happens " Sylvia followed her friend's advice, and a larger gold piece was added to the two already there.
However, if he carried away a mystery, he left one behind. As he was hunting for a taxicab, the waiter ran out and told him that he had forgotten to settle for the wine. The lady had refused to do so. Courtlandt chuckled and gave him a ten-franc piece. In other days, in other circumstances, he would have liked to know more about the unknown who scribbled notes on composition paper.
The only question was as to the disposition of Miss Dibbs toward me. I prayed that she might turn out to be a romantic dragon; but, in case she should prove obstinate, I made my approaches with all possible caution. When my carriage stopped at the door I jumped out. The head waiter, a big fellow in a white waistcoat, was on the steps. I drew him aside, and took a ten-franc piece from my pocket.
"A very good furniture picture." "Your baroness is always at the roulette-table," said Mackworth. "I fancy she has taught the girl to gamble." "Oh, the old woman plays a very sober game; drops a ten-franc piece here and there. The girl is more headlong. But it is only a freak." "I hear she has lost all her winnings to-day. Are they rich? Who knows?" "Ah, who knows?
The worthy Cropoli, after these recommendations, had only sufficient time to point out to his young successor a chimney, under the slab of which he had hidden a thousand ten-franc pieces, and then expired. Cropoli the younger, like a man of good heart, supported the loss with resignation, and the gain without insolence.
Play had again begun in earnest, and Sylvia turned her attention to the table. Her neighbour whispered something which at once caused her to take up two napoleons and a ten-franc piece from the pile of gold in front of her. Very deliberately she placed the coins within the ruled-off space reserved for the stakes.
Here alighting, he made the boat fast and, soothing his conscience with a surmise that its owner would find it there in the morning, strode swiftly over to the train line that runs along the embankment, swung aboard an adventitious car and broke his first ten-franc piece in order to pay his fare.
Jefferson was about to hand up a ten-franc piece when Shirley indignantly interfered. She would not submit to such an imposition. There was a regular tariff and she would pay that and nothing more. So, in better French than was at Jefferson's command, she exclaimed: "Ten francs? Pourquoi dix francs? I took your cab by the hour. It is exactly two hours. That makes four francs."
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