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Perhaps no one in the body had so large a prac- tical knowledge of the commercial interests of the State, and especially of the traffic upon its lakes and inland waterways; on all questions relating to these his advice was of the greatest value; he was in every respect a good public servant.
"She is in prison," she whispered, drawing me closely to her. "She is not prudent, you know, like you and me," in a tone which expressed both triumph and fear. "Can I see her?" I asked. "Yes, yes! if you bribe the jailers. But don't give them more than a tical each. They'll demand two; give them only one."
There was a tiresome string of cash with a rattan twisted through their square holes; silver customs taels, and mace and candareen; Chinese gold leaf and Fukien dollars; coins from Cochin China in the shape of India ink, with raised edges and characters; old Carolus hooked dollars; Sycee silver ingots, smooth and flat above, but roughly oval on the lower surface, not unlike shoes; Japanese obangs, their gold stamped and beaten out almost as broad as a hand's palm; mohurs and pieces from Singapore; Dutch guilders from Java; and the small silver and gold drops of Siam called tical.
Is there anything we can break?" Then, without any transition, he vaulted upon the table and began to declaim, with tremendous gestures: "There once was a beast called an Ounce, Who went with a spring and a bounce. His head was as flat As the head of a cat, This quadrupetantical Ounce, -tical Ounce, This quadrupetantical Ounce.
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