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The Poor Plutocrats

CHAPTER XIV
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I am going back that way.

But I should like you to place that little box in some safe place for the time being.

It contains 4,000 ducats and that is no trifle." "Huh! my lord!" cried the innkeeper clapping the back of his head with both hands, as if he feared it was already about to fall off backwards.
"Your lordship dares to carry so much gold about with you and stroll so carelessly about in these parts!" "Carelessly!--what do you mean?
I cannot wheel them in front of me on a barrow can I?
I want to pay them into my account at Fehervar the day after to-morrow; I have payments to make.

That is why I carry them about with me." "I only meant to say that it is dangerous to go about alone with so much money." "I am not in the habit of going about with an escort." "The more's the pity, Domnule.

These parts are panic-stricken, since Anicza betrayed the coiners in the Lucsia Cavern, we have been saddled with a whole heap of calamities.


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