The £1,000,000 pound Bank-Note


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    I was nettled, and said:

    "My friend, you shouldn't judge a stranger always by the clothes he wears. I am quite able to pay for this suit; I simply didn't wish to put you to the trouble of changing a large note."

    He modified his style a little at that, and said, though still with something of an air:

    "I didn't mean any particular harm, but as long as rebukes are going, I might say it wasn't quite your affair to jump to the conclusion that we couldn't change any note that you might happen to be carrying around. On the contrary, we can."

    I handed the note to him, and said:

    "Oh, very well; I apologize."

    He received it with a smile, one of those large smiles which goes all around over, and has folds in it, and wrinkles, and spirals, and looks like the place where you have thrown a brick in a pond; and then in the act of his taking a glimpse of the bill this smile froze solid, and turned yellow, and looked like those wavy, wormy spreads of lava which you find hardened on little levels on the side of Vesuvius. I never before saw a smile caught like that, and perpetuated. The man stood there holding the bill, and looking like that, and the proprietor hustled up to see what was the matter, and said, briskly:

    "Well, what's up? What's the trouble? What's wanting?"

    I said: "There isn't any trouble. I'm waiting for my change."

    "Come, come; get him his change, Tod; get him his change."

    Tod retorted: "Get him his change! It's easy to say, sir; but look at the bill yourself."


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