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As an experiment on the price, I offered him a two-centime piece, which is a sort of satire on the very name of money, when he desired me to help myself to as many oranges as I liked. He was a fine-looking fellow, with a spick-span new red Phrygian cap; and I had n't the heart to take advantage of his generosity, especially as his oranges were not of the sweetest.
As an experiment on the price, I offered him a two-centime piece, which is a sort of satire on the very name of money, when he desired me to help myself to as many oranges as I liked. He was a fine-looking fellow, with a spick-span new red Phrygian cap; and I had n't the heart to take advantage of his generosity, especially as his oranges were not of the sweetest.
De Vezin had brought me a two-centime piece one day because I said I had never seen one, and I put a hole in it and hung it to my chain. Fred to call that a gage d'amour! "'Nonsense! said I. "'De Vezin thought the same when he saw it there. I took him for a fool, but I see he was right.
As an experiment on the price, I offered him a two-centime piece, which is a sort of satire on the very name of money, when he desired me to help myself to as many oranges as I liked. He was a fine-looking fellow, with a spick-span new red Phrygian cap; and I had n't the heart to take advantage of his generosity, especially as his oranges were not of the sweetest.
Jimbo and Monkey were busy hanging the towel out of the window, signal to Daddy that tea was ready. But as Daddy was already coming down the street at a great pace, apparently excited too, they waved it instead. Rogers suddenly remembered that Jimbo that morning had asked him for a two-centime stamp. He made no remark, however, merely wondering what was in the letter itself.
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