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THE BARON. "Ah, I forgot the L5,000 you last borrowed." EGERTON. "NO; I reserve that sum for another purpose." "Perhaps to defend yourself against the actions you apprehend from me?" EGERTON. "You are mistaken. I intend to bestow it, while yet in life, upon my late wife's kinsman, Randal Leslie.
An idea struck him. "Would you like to go to school there, Isobel?" "I think so, Father, as I must go to school somewhere and I hate those horrible governesses." "Well," he replied, "you couldn't throw inkpots at the holy Knight, as you did at Miss Hook. Lord! what a rage she was in," he added with a chuckle. "I had to pay her L5 for a new dress.
As soon as he had scraped together a little money, he lent it to some poor devil with a hard landlord, at twenty per cent., and made him take half the loan in umbrellas or bamboos. By these means he got his foot into the ladder, and climbed upward and upward, till, at the age of forty, he had amassed L5,000. He then looked about for a wife.
He went off to superintend the shutting-up of the shop, while Mrs. Baines chatted with Maggie and gave her L5 for a wedding present. Then Mr. Critchlow called to offer his salutations. A little before tea Mrs. Baines announced that she would go out for a short walk by herself.
Those little trips to town paid very fairly. In this particular case his entire expenses reached exactly L5 3s., and what do you suppose was the good man's profit upon that small item? Precisely L62 7s.! The process is simple, Jos.
One of these engines was used on the machine which, in 1909, won the prize of L1,000 for the first circular mile flight, and it may be noted, too, that S. F. Cody, making the circuit of England in 1911, used a four-cylinder Green engine. Again, it was a Green engine that in 1914 won the L5,000 prize offered for the best aero engine in the Naval and Military aeroplane engine competition.
For aiding and abetting this noisy and disgraceful spree, and also for partaking in it, Drummer Basset was fined L5, which must have been more than his yearly salary, and in disgrace, and possibly in disgust, quitted drumming the New Haven good people to meeting and moved his residence to Stamford, doubtless to the relief and delight of both magistrates and people of the former town.
Yesterday Graham began the Confirmation Classes. Most of the elders attended nine men and fifteen women. John Glass came in to-day to have his hand treated. It was much swollen through, as he thinks, the bite of an insect. He had left it nearly two days uncared for. Monday, October l5. On Sunday morning just before service Mrs.
Plenty of ships arriving now, rushing to the new gold-fields. The papers are full of wonderful tales of the sort always to be heard in connection with new gold diggings. A sample: a youth staked out a claim and tried to sell half for L5; no takers; he stuck to it fourteen days, starving, then struck it rich and sold out for L10,000 . . . . About sunset, strong breeze blowing, got up the anchor.
Hither comes Mr. Clerke by and by, and tells me that he hath paid the fees of the Court for the commission; but the men are not contented with under; L5 for their charges, which he will not give them, and therefore advises me not to stir abroad till Monday that he comes or sends to me again, whereby I shall not be able to go to White Hall to the Duke of York, as I ought.
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