When he was tired he rushed to a desk, tore a cheque from a book and filled it in for a sum of £2,300 to bearer, which cheque he blotted, crumpled up and literally threw at the head of his son.
He sent a cheque for five thousand pounds to a hospital, and was reported to be going on the turf.
I have twelve ten-pound notes here," he said, "and I can write a cheque for the balance.
I saw Ferguson, and he told me that a cheque for the full amount came through from the Bank of England.
I've just had from the bank a cheque for £4,000 drawn in your favour on our joint account and purporting to be signed by Silva and myself.
He was absolute master of his own balance, but it required three signatures to extract a cheque from Account B.
Crewe put his name beneath, saw that the cheque was made payable to bearer, and handed the book to the colonel.
I can bring a dozen witnesses to prove that both Pinto and I were in Brighton the morning that cheque was signed.
What coolness in facing the angry animal (for, after all, a man on whom you draw a cheque a bout portant will be angry).
What was yonder cheque which Major Delamere proposed I should cash but a piece of bad money?
I do conscientiously believe that had I cashed the Major's cheque there would have been a difficulty about payment on the part of the respected bankers on whom he drew.
Au bout du compte, what was I to do, if a banker did not choose to honor a chequedrawn by his dead grandmother?
I am ashamed to say that my first movement was to clutch the chequewhich he had left with me, and which I was determined to present the very moment the bank opened.
She could see that at a glance--remembered so clearly noticing the same heading on the cheque which he had given her towards her trousseau--the Watchester and Loamshire Bank.
Finally, his hand still shaking with rage, Sir Philip had written a cheque that would cover his nephew's losses.
Then, a sudden new fear shaking her, she went quickly to his side, thrusting the blank cheque under his eyes.
We will be there in less than five minutes, and I will write you the cheque before you tell me anything.
I have a commission from the family to find out, and a blank cheque to do it with.
Yet you tore up my cheque and flung yourself away when you found out that my standard of morals was not quite what you had expected," she murmured.
He tore her cheque calmly in pieces and flung them scornfully away.
Tavernake held the cheque in his fingers; he made no motion to put it in his pocket.
Get into the car with me and drive back to my rooms at the Milan Court, and I will give you a cheque for a hundred pounds at once.
A man is not expected to write a chequefor a couple of thousand pounds as readily as he would one for five,--unless he be a man to whom a couple of thousand pounds is a mere nothing.
Mrs. Carbuncle fought hard for the greater sum; but at last consented to take the less, and the cheque was written.
If the cheque comes back that will be my look out.
Of course she had written the cheque without a word, but it did begin to occur to her that hunting was an expensive amusement.
To one or two elderly gentlemen upon whom Mrs. Carbuncle had smiled, she ventured to suggest in plain words that a cheque was the most convenient cadeau.
Lord George had received the commission, and the cheque required from her had been for £320.
Even the presentation of her cheque at the banker’s will be quite a secondary matter, when compared with the grand object of securing the coronet which she so much covets!
The cheque of the Marquis I shall send through the medium of some Parisian banker.
And these were the words which she thus caught--“You hold already a cheque for sixty thousand pounds!
The cheque which the Marquis of Delmour gave me for six hundred pounds, I altered in such a way as to make it represent sixty thousand; and I yesterday obtained the amount from the bankers.
He had heard from his bankers on the previous evening that the cheque for sixty thousand pounds had been duly presented and cashed; and he therefore concluded that the young lady had arrived in London.
Even the possession of the cheque for sixty thousand pounds was a secondary consideration, in comparison with her desire to secure that proud title of Countess which was now within her reach.
With an apparent outward composure, but with a palpitating heart, the old woman entered the bank, and presented her cheque to one of the clerks.
This evening,” replied the old woman: “too late to present her cheque at the bank.
You must write me a cheque for a hundred guineas, my consultation fee; and then I’ll tell you wot you must do next.
She got many delightful presents, the nicest of all being from her father, who "provided a cheque for £2 and promised to send her a darling little baby calf when ready.
I should be glad if you would make me out a cheque for six thousand pounds.
Holmes folded up his cheque and placed it carefully in his note-book.
The upshot was that Aymer was presented with a cheque for fifty pounds, being his own forty pounds, and ten pounds additional.
After endless disappointments and "returned with thanks," he had suddenly received a cheque for a sketch of his which had been accepted by an illustrated paper.
Immediately afterwards came another cheque for a short story accepted by a magazine.
He gave Sibylla a cheque for its amount, and some gentle, loving words of admonition at the same time--not to spend him out of house and home.
Her white gloves on her delicate hands as usual, her essence bottle and laced handkerchief beside her, Lionel offered her his customary fond greeting, and placed the cheque in her hands.
Next day Mr McTavish and his family moved out, Mr Swinton having signed the agreement, and given a cheque for the year's rent in advance--scarce necessary after being endorsed by such a distinguished referee.
His patron had provided him with a cheque for three hundred.
His purse, or rather his cheque book, gaped with desire to be at Logan's service, but had gaped in vain.
Richard, whose voice was husky from emotion; "by writing my name to the cheque for the money you borrowed, telling the man it was for me.
Jerry obeyed, struck a light, and held the cheque in one hand, the wax taper in the other.
Why, go and tell his colonel, sir, all about his borrowing of old Simpson, the tailor, and throwing the credit about that there cheque on to you.
Mr Easy was not a man to refuse such a request, and always having plenty of spare cash at his banker's, he drew a cheque for a thousand pounds, which he gave to Captain Wilson, requesting that he would only repay it at his convenience.
As he spoke, he handed a cheque for 10 pounds to John, adding, "Do not tell the bookseller why you want them, or he will raise the price.
Write to your friends, and tell them to buy them all up; I will send them a chequefor the amount.
On a separate page were directions for the journey; and a cheque was enclosed, the first Robina had ever received, providing amply for journey, outfit, and books.
My chequehad been presented with the one hundred changed into four.
He also gave her his blessing; and, what was more negotiable, a cheque for £1000.
She tore up the cheque in style, and presented me the fragments with two or three of the delicacies of language she learnt at your Academy.
The Eighteenth Century was as good as her word, and gave Tom a letter in return, enclosing a cheque on her bankers, amply providing to keep the heroic engine in motion at a moderate pace.
I enclose in this letter a blank cheque to which I have affixed my signature.
Didn't I tell you, Lucy, that Simmons has given me a cheque for three hundred and fifty pounds for the two.
Enclosed is a cheque for three shillings and sixpence (3s.
Yes; he sent a cheque to the major yesterday, who's paid it into my account.
He has paid twelve thousand pounds a year into the local bank, invariably in notes and gold, never a cheque among the lot; does not this suggest that he wished to conceal, even from his bankers, the source from which the money came?
I enclose chequefor present and next week's salary.
The fact of escaping from the debasing drudgery of "Dawes'," of being the possessor of a cheque for L2.
