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As to the hunchback, it is hardly necessary to say that he did not get very far into the crowd, and when his wife and George returned, laughing gayly, they found him standing outside, with a sulky face. "Look here, missus," said he; "you're a enjoying of yourself, but I'm not. You've got the blunt, so just hand over a few coppers, and I'll get a pint at the King's Arms."
The risk of remaining was very great, but several officers volunteered. Orlo's friend, Lieutenant , claimed the privilege, and Orlo begged that he might remain with him. The last performance of the boats was to bring off some rice which had been found in the captured schooner, and cooked, thoughtfully, by the captain's orders, in his coppers, in readiness for the liberated negroes.
Peter said to the beggar, "Silver and gold have I none, but such as I have give I thee," it is not to be thought that he hadn't a few coppers to spare. He meant, "Silver and gold are not my gifts; I have something other and more precious." Thus the apostle indicated the deeper significance of charity. There is hospitality of the mind as well as of the hand, though both spring from the heart.
"Not when we are in our Sunday clothes." "Then it is vanity." Gretchen shook her head wisely. "Mine is worth only four coppers to-night," he said. The vintner laughed pleasantly. Gretchen looked into his eyes, and an echo found haven in her own. Carmichael thirstily drank his first tankard, thinking: "So this vintner is in love with our goose-girl? Confound my memory!
Gadbut swore that twice he had met him coming out of a stockbroker's office in Threadneedle Street, and, improbable though the statement at first appeared, some colour of credibility began to attach to it when we reflected upon the dog's inordinate passion for acquiring and hoarding coppers. This craving of his for wealth was really quite remarkable.
No curtains to the window! Not a picture on the walls! On the table a dusty disorder of small objects, including ash-trays, and towards the back of it a little account book, open, with a pencil on it and a low pile of coppers and a silver ten-sou piece on the top of the coppers.
Miss Cutter had approached the table and glanced again at the gold and silver and the note, not indeed absolutely overlooking the two coppers. "The balance," she put it, "the day after?" "That very night if you like." "Then count on me." "Oh if I didn't !" But the door closed on the dark idea. Yearningly then, and only when it had done so, Miss Cutter took up the money.
'Well, you'll never get no more of it that's one thing, said Davis, gravely. ''Ere! wot's wrong with you, Dyvis? Coppers 'ot? Well, look at me! I ain't grumpy, said Huish; 'I'm as plyful as a canary-bird, I am. 'Yes, said Davis, 'you're playful; I own that; and you were playful last night, I believe, and a damned fine performance you made of it. ''Allo! said Huish. ''Ow's this?
A singing-girl and some blonde bouquet-sellers had equal cause to rejoice in my generosity. It is when a gentleman is landed finally on his coppers that he becomes penny-liberal. I glanced defiance at Berkley, my creditor, as I showered largess on these humble poets. We descended under the stars, and I began to think that illuminated gravel-roads were, at night, susceptible of some apology.
I put my hands into the pockets of my white duck jacket and drew out a roll of big Borneo coppers. The syce counted out the desired amount, and handed back what was left through the bamboo chicks, or curtains, that reduced the blinding glare of the sky to a soft, translucent gray.
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