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Updated: June 25, 2025
Please, Anne." "I don't care if I do," responded Anne. She was lonely enough to feel that she would even enjoy studying a history lesson with stupid Amelia. "I'll leave my box here." Amelia started off, but came back a moment later. "I forgot I left my purse in my box," she said. She opened the purse and counted the money. "I had another two-franc piece," she said, with a sharp look at Anne.
There were only a few francs left, but I would have beggared myself to buy this adventure, and thought it cheap at the price she named. I found a two-franc piece a bright new one, worthy of its destiny and looking up as I shut my purse, I saw the old woman's eyes fixed on me, and sharp as gimlets.
They were the crude jewels which the Nubian nomads hammer out of shillings or two-franc pieces, I was told that Selim would certainly be hanged, because the little girl's mother refused the tendered blood-money.
"Oh! real cream; I saw it milked myself at the dairy we have in this very street." "Thank you, no, madame, nothing. Take me at once " "Very good, monsieur. Follow me, this way." She led him up into the room above her own, where she showed him, triumphantly, an opening about the size of a two-franc piece, made during the night, in a place, which, in each room, was above a wardrobe.
"I had two two-franc pieces," insisted Amelia, "and one is gone." "You had two yeth'day," lisped Elsie Hart, who had just come in. "And you bought a boxth of chocolath." Amelia reddened. "I I'd forgot," she muttered. "Forgot! Amelia! You spent your money and then accused your schoolmate of taking it!" Miss Morris exclaimed indignantly. "You are a careless, careless, bad, bad girl.
At the hotels, so like school two days before the term begins, the impersonal valet, the chambermaid of the set two-franc smile, and the unbending head-waiter had given place to one's own brothers and sisters, full of one's own anxieties. "My son is an aviator, monsieur.
A two-franc cigar would be cheerfully offered to a wealthy patron, on the principle of doing evil that good may come, but I have known him indulge in agonies of perjury rather than admit the incriminating possession of a copper coin when change was needed to tip a waiter.
On engaging the two-franc room he had interviewed the only person who seemed to be about that sleepy afternoon, an elderly waiter with Dundreary whiskers and a drowsy courtesy, who had ambled lazily towards him across the stone yard; but on coming downstairs again for a little promenade in the town before dinner he encountered the proprietress herself.
Charvet, for his part, showed himself almost amiable; and whether he and the others knew anything of Florent's antecedents, they at all events indulged in no embarrassing allusions. "Did Manoury pay you in small change?" Logre asked Clemence. She answered affirmatively, and produced a roll of francs and another of two-franc pieces, and unwrapped them.
"To me," he announced, "there is something more satisfying about a meal of this description than that two-franc dinner where you stole my chicken." "You have Teutonic instincts, without a doubt," Kendricks declared, "but after all, why not a light dinner and an appetite for supper? Better for the digestion, better for the pocket, better for passing the time. What are you staring at?"
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