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Updated: June 28, 2025
'When did his own father give him a beautiful skull for a money-box, and make an oak lid to it, and keep it for him because his mother wouldn't have it in the house? 'Ah, but where's the money that was in it, Tom?
Ah, what a prodigal old fool I have been! If I only had a hundred louis!" Then he told Louis to open the secretary, and hand him the money-box. The box contained only nine hundred and twenty francs in gold. "Nine hundred and twenty francs," cried the marquis: "it will never do for the eldest son of our house to fly the country with this paltry sum." He sat lost in reflection.
Neither the church, the poor, nor some distant mission to the heathen served as any excuse for begging, in the shrine of the 'Saint's Rest. No vestige of a money-box or 'plate' was to be seen anywhere.
There is, however, a little haiden, or place of prayer, with nothing in it but a money-box and a bell, before the fence, and facing the temple steps. Here the pilgrims make their offerings and pray. Only a small raised platform covered with a Chinese roof supported upon four plain posts, the back of the structure being closed by a lattice about breast high.
But you may be sure that Bacon and Sydenham did not recommend it for nothing. One's hepar, or, in vulgar language, liver, a ponderous organ, weighing some three or four pounds, goes up and down like the dasher of a churn in the midst of the other vital arrangements, at every step of a trotting horse. The brains also are shaken up like coppers in a money-box.
Go to Paris, my dear; go at the cost of an old celibate, I won't prevent it; in fact, I'll help you, for an old bachelor, Suzanne, is the natural money-box of a young girl. But don't drag me into the matter. I'm as poor as a church mouse; you know that, my dear. Ah! if I marry Mademoiselle Cormon, if I am once more rich, of course I would prefer you to Cesarine.
When her little son, therefore, saw and pitied a small boy with shoeless feet, his mother quickly reminded him of his little money-box. 'Would you rather keep the money for barley-sugar, Willie, or give it to the poor boy? she asked. 'Give it to the boy, he said at once, and so learnt his first lesson in self-denial.
Once, as I was sitting among the ruins, I was suddenly startled by a loud, rattling sound; turning my head, I saw a figure clothed in white from head to foot, with only two small holes for the eyes. He held in his hand a money-box, on which was a figure of the Virgin, which he held close to my lips, that I might kiss it.
She half closed her eyes, her face was red, her moustache bristled up, she put on a sententious, hurried manner; her mouth widened out and looked like the slit in a money-box, or else it was creased up into a little ring, and she purred and hissed and chirped and fooled without ceasing. I flung myself exhausted into my wicker chair, choking with laughter, and great tears poured from my eyes.
"Why should I be coursing about here looking for prizes with that chest within reach of my very arm whenever I choose it?" Black Paul grinned and said to himself: "It is your arm, old Sam, that I am afraid of." Then aloud: "No, let him go. Let us profit by our good treatment as long as it lasts, and then we will talk about the money-box."
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