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"He came into the bar for a drink after he'd been up to his room. He pulled out a handful of gold when he paid for it a whole handful. There must have been some thirty to forty sovereigns and half-sovereigns." "And he hadn't a penny piece on him when found," muttered Rathbury. "I noticed another thing, too," remarked the landlady.
Head had behaved very strangely and rudely indeed. He had actually tried to persuade her that he knew nothing of it that it was not he but someone else who had given her the five half-sovereigns on that evening of the 4th of August!
Two pound ten to pay for damage to paint, which they subscribed for there and then, and give Bob and me a extra half-sovereign each; but I wouldn't go down that line again not for twenty half-sovereigns." And the guard shook his head slowly, and got up and blew a clear, brisk toot-toot. "What fun!" said Tom, who could scarcely contain his pride at this exploit of his future school-fellows.
The Smithson and Haselden firm had come to grief. Lesbia's little ivory purse had been emptied of its three or four half-sovereigns, and Mr. Smithson had been capitalising a losing concern for the last two hours. And the play had been fast and furious, although nominally for small stakes. 'I am afraid to think of how much I must owe you, said Lesbia, when Mr. Smithson bade her good night.
Not that he really cared, for he was impatient of her slow ways, and did not feel sorry for her failing sight or feeble limbs; only, he liked the five shillings and half-sovereigns she occasionally bestowed, and thought that he might receive more if he pretended a dutiful behaviour. Jeff really, however, fell in love with the old lady at first sight.
All the boldness she had shown at the 'Spotted Deer' had vanished. She was now the mere trembling and guilty woman. The lock on Bolderfield's box had been forced long before; it opened to her hand. A heap of sovereigns and half-sovereigns lay on one side, divided by a wooden partition from the few silver coins, crowns and half-crowns, still lying on the other.
Liddy chose a position at her elbow and began to sew, sometimes pausing and looking round, or with the air of a privileged person, taking up one of the half-sovereigns lying before her and surveying it merely as a work of art, while strictly preventing her countenance from expressing any wish to possess it as money. "Now before I begin, men." said Bathsheba, "I have two matters to speak of.
'The Earl of B generally gave a five-sovereign gold piece at Easter, and his numerous lordly visitors always followed suit. The Doctor was never behind-hand with his noble neighbours, and many of the well-to-do yeomen gave their sovereigns and half-sovereigns, and there was no lack of silver. 'This day not a single gold piece was to be found in the box.
"Who are you?" asked Spargo. The woman leered and chuckled. "What are you going to give me, young man?" she asked. Spargo put his fingers in his pocket and pulled out two half-sovereigns. "Look here," he said, showing his companion the coins, "if you can tell me anything of importance you shall have these. But no trifling, now. And no wasting of time. If you have anything to tell, out with it!"
They consisted of three Napoleons, fifteen English sovereigns, four half-sovereigns, and eighteen one-franc pieces. In his trouser-pocket he had four Mexican dollars, and some cosmopolitan change of small value. "It's not very much," he muttered to himself after he had counted it, "but it ought to be sufficient for the business in hand.
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