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The money was all in sovereigns, except one five and one ten-pound note, and Edward Hazlitt, the clerk of the Whitford Bank, was called to prove the having given the latter in change to Mr. Axworthy for a fifty-pound cheque, on the 10th of May last.
I gave him the address, Miss Johnson, at Mrs Lipscombe's seminary, Kensington. Well and here's the ten-pound note, sir, which I have fairly earned." "Fairly earned, Tim?" "Yes, fairly earned; for it's all fair to cheat those who would cheat you. "I cannot altogether agree with you on that point, Tim, but it certainly is no more than they deserve; but this is matter for reflection.
The boys had been scuttled off to take their evening meal in the kitchen a darksome cupboard about eight feet square where the tawdry servant was perpetually stewing savoury messes upon a small charcoal stove. Bessie handed her husband the ten-pound note, and twelve bright napoleons. "Why, what's this?" he asked. "The the money for the locket, Austin.
Miss Evers wanted awfully to see the Grand Duke, and I promised her an introduction. I can't make out what Mrs. Vivian is up to. I bet you a ten-pound note she 's giving chase. Our friend Wright has come back and gone off again, and Mrs. Vivian means to strike camp and follow. She 'll pot him yet; you see if she does n't!" "She is running away from you, dangerous man!" said Bernard.
How long the beast had lain there Link had no way of guessing. But the dog was in mortal agony. And the kindest thing to do was to put him out of his pain. Ferris groped around through the gloom until, in the ditch, his fingers closed over a ten-pound stone. One smashing blow on the head, with this missile, would bring a swift and merciful end to the sufferer's troubles.
Two-shoes, who can only borrow ten pounds of them; but Grace was a poor simple West-country girl; and as such we must excuse her, if, curtseying to the very ground, with tears of gratitude in her eyes, she took the ten-pound note, saying to herself, "Thank the Good Lord! This will just pay mother's account at the mill."
"Wal, we sot deown together, 'nd she was so purty I stowed away a mouthful, hardly thinkin' 'nd I run one o' these here main off-shutes from the backbone of a ten-pound cod, abeout tew inches up into the shrouds 'n' riggin' o' my left-hand upper jaw.
They found the exact shade at last on a ten-pound tin of Aspinall enamels, and Bosambo thought long. "Lord," said he, "I think I know where I may find just such a crocodile as you want."
Nora smiled at the recollection of the horror that Mr. Hornby's remarks as to his earnings from that source had provoked. However, he had most generously sent his sister a ten-pound note as a present. Miss Pringle had, of course, no possible use for it at the time.
He turned to prose and wrote short stories, and sent them broadcast They came back, and he sent them out again. He made a list of magazines and a list of the stories, and each one went the rounds. One stuck and brought proof-sheets, and in due time a ten-pound note. He poured in all the rest on the one discerning editor, who had already refused one half of them.
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