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Beg pardon, ma'am! but 'ave you the spondulics?" He blushed at her puzzled look, and amended: "'Ave you money enough upon you to pay the railway-fare?" She lifted a little gold-netted purse attached to her neck-chain. "Five pounds. My maid is to follow. You know Marie? You will let her travel with you?" "Righto! But you'll want a wrap, coat or shawl, or somethink.
I dare say my friend Joe Whitton would be as much astonished as I was after my first lecture. Seeing a splendid house I naturally began to reckon my spondulics. Full of this Pactolean vision, I went into my treasurer's room. "Now, Hingston, my boy, let us see what the proceeds are! We shall soon make a fortune at this rate."
With a groan, Colonel Braddon handed over a gold stem-winder, of Waltham make. "Couldn't you leave me the watch, gentlemen?" he said, imploringly. "It was a present to me last Christmas." "Can't spare it. Make your friends give you another." Next came the turn of Mortimer Sprague, the young dude. "Hand over your spondulics, young feller," said the second gentleman of the road.
FELLER-CITIZENS AND FELLER-CITIZENESSES, I feel truly glad to see you here to-night, more especially those who have paid, although I am too polite to say how many are here who have not paid, but who take a base advantage of the good-nature of my friend and manager, Hingston, bothering him to give them free tickets, gratis, and also for nothing; and my former friend and manager, Rosenberg, assures me that the best way to prevent a person from enjoying any entertainment is to admit them without the equivalent spondulics.
You shall take them, my leetle brother, for your journal; you shall announce in the big letter: 'Mooch Importance. The Aztec, He is Found. 'How He Look and Lif. 'The Everlasting Nigger. You shall sell many paper, and Urania shall have scoop in much spondulics and rocks. Hoop-la!
"Our man won't vote for the address," said Mr. O'Connor. "He goes in on the Nationalist ticket." "Won't he?" said Mr. Hynes. "Wait till you see whether he will or not. I know him. Is it Tricky Dicky Tierney?" "By God! perhaps you're right, Joe," said Mr. O'Connor. "Anyway, I wish he'd turn up with the spondulics." The three men fell silent. The old man began to rake more cinders together. Mr.
You don't think I'd put all my spondulics in one bank, do you?" "I won't trouble you to draw a check this morning. I only want to ask some advice." "I've got plenty of that." "I haven't been able to get anything to do, and I have only fifty cents left. I can't go on like that." "That's so." "I've got to give up my room on Fourteenth Street. I can't pay for it any longer.
It ain't ez if you were one of these high mug-a-mugs with a rich father to pay yer way through, and set you up in a white choker and swallow-tail coat afterwards. What's the good of a strong, husky fellow fooling along with Latin and Greek, that will never be no use to him? You'd a heap better spiel plain strong English that will bring you in the spondulics. Why, look at me!
There are a tribe of us, to begin with; then our family has been here for ages, and we have plenty of 'spondulics, so we can rather lord it over the other fellows, and do as we like. There, ma'am, you can hang your smashed glass on that nail and do up your back hair as fine as you please.
He opened the bag, counted out five one-thousand-dollar gold certificates of the United States of America and handed them to the captain. "The grand old rag," Michael J. murmured. "How many rascals fight under the flag of old King Spondulics!" "I believe you have an Irish chief engineer," von Staden continued.
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