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Polly landed that one, weighing at least three pounds, then caught two more, weighing about two pounds each. "Guess these will be enough for this noon. No use catching more than we need!" remarked Polly, coming back to Eleanor's side. The girls hastened down the rocks and brought the fish over to the place where Polly expected to find a good fire burning.
Two from nothing you can't, but borrow twelve. Two from twelve, ten, and carry one. Please remember ten, sir, when I ask you. One from nothing you can't, borrow twenty. One from twenty, nineteen, and carry one. One from fifteen, fourteen. Fourteen pounds nineteen and what did I tell you to remember?" "Ten," said the General.
It may be doubted whether he had ever talked enough to any man to make that man his friend. Laurence Fitzgibbon tried him for one season, and after a month or two asked for a loan of a few hundred pounds. "I never lend money to any one under any circumstances," said Mr. Kennedy, and it was the longest speech which had ever fallen from his mouth in the hearing of Laurence Fitzgibbon.
"But you had a pretty talent for the piano," said Lancelot in milder accents. "No one forced you to learn composition. You could have learnt anything for the paltry fifteen pounds exacted by the Conservatoire from the German flute to the grand organ; from singing to scoring band parts." "No, thank you. Aut Caesar aut nihil.
"Who told you that, Balsam?" said John Walker, throwing down his cards. "I've just heard it," said Balsam. "I don't believe it," said John. "I shouldn't wonder if it's true," said Winthrop. "I always said that something would turn up." "Will you bet three to one he is not found guilty?" said John Walker. "Done," said Winthrop; "in pounds."
He found it difficult to control his voice as he looked down at the old couple, who couldn't weigh more than two hundred pounds between them. "I'm going to stay," said the woman firmly. "As you wish, Madam," said Tom. He looked at the list again. "Mrs. Helen Carson?" A woman about thirty-five, carrying a young boy about four years old, stepped out and took her place beside the two sisters.
I think he'd become your tenant, for the whole of your share, at a rent of five-hundred a year; and maybe he'd give you three hundred pounds for the furniture and stock, and things about the place. If so, you should give him a laise of three lives."
"Yes, if you do not mind taking bank-notes and silver, I will give you for that gold of yours forty pounds and five shillings. Gold is useful to me in my business. Oh and, Frau Bauer? When you do go to the Post Office I should be glad if you would send off this telegram for me. It is a business telegram, as you can see, in fact a code telegram."
Daisy was really getting better, and had even been out for a few minutes. The other letter had not come by the post, and Jasmine wondered who her correspondent could be. She opened it eagerly. It contained a folded sheet of paper, out of which dropped two crisp Bank of England notes for five pounds each. The sheet of paper itself contained the following words:
The shadow of the tree was always upon him, and he would make me miserable by talking of his certain doom. "I have a hundred pounds in my pocket," he would say; "I shall spend that, and then I shan't last long." And though I never thought him serious, his prophecy came true enough. Only a few months before the end we had visited Tyburn together.
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