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Nothing has been too small to escape him, and you may be sure that if Charles Strickland left a laundry bill unpaid it will be given you <i in extenso>, and if he forebore to return a borrowed half-crown no detail of the transaction will be omitted. When so much has been written about Charles Strickland, it may seem unnecessary that I should write more. A painter's monument is his work.
They discussed long and seriously the ways and means to the increase and the amount of it. "Half a crown," was her reiteration; "on half a crown I'd do it somehow." And he asked: "Yes! But where's the half-crown to come from?" "You must find it," she said at last. With compressed lips and lowering brow the young man thought it out. "I give you all I can " "And I take as little as I can."
Every face that came on the platform was carefully scrutinised without any result, and at length the bell rang. "Good-night, friend," said the burglar, slipping a half-crown into the policeman's hand as he was about to jump into the carriage. "It was no fault of yours that we didn't catch him. You did your best." "Yes, I did my best." "Hallo! are you going by this train?" exclaimed the burglar.
With heavy heart he departed, appealing to the woman, for pity's sake, not to let harm come to the boy in his absence. Where should he go? what should he do? Half a crown would make him feel the richest man in Liverpool, and yet how hard, how cruelly hard, it is to find a half-crown when you most want it!
He turned his body half round, and then shambled back, as though ashamed of his intention, and passed on. "He is of that sort that they make the angels of," said the verger. "But they can't make many if they want them all as good as he is. I'm much obliged to you, sir." And he pocketed the half-crown which Crosbie gave him.
She sat for a while looking at the half-crown, then she took it in her hand, and wanted to pitch it into the street for the first beggar to profit by, but, remembering that she was a beggar too, she kept it. Osborn entered into further discussion of the matter in a reasonable vein. "Half-a-crown a week's six pound ten a year. Sure you can't manage without?" "How do you mean?"
"Oho!" cried Allan, "you're beginning to think of nymphs among the trees, and flirtations in the fruit-garden, are you? Another lady, eh? Suppose the major's family circle won't supply another? We shall have to spin that half-crown again, and toss up for which is to have the first chance with Miss Milroy." For once Midwinter spoke as lightly and carelessly as Allan himself.
But as lang as siller's current, Deacon, folk maunna look ower nicely at what king's head's on't. 'I doubt Glossin will prove but shand after a', mistress, said Jabos, as he passed through the little lobby beside the bar; 'but this is a gude half-crown ony way.
"See the master," said an ostler the same who had paid the negative kind of compliment to the horse "a likely thing, truly; my master is drinking wine with some of the grand gentry, and can't be disturbed for the sake of the like of you." "I bring a letter to him," said I, pulling out the surgeon's epistle. "I wish you would deliver it to him," I added, offering a half-crown.
Blake was sent out with a half-crown to buy the necessary materials, and with that he began an experiment which resulted in furnishing his principal means of support through life. It consisted in a species of engraving in relief both of the words and the designs of his poems, by a process peculiar and original.
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