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The door's in line with the window, and he'll spot anyone that crosses the room." I pointed to the window-skirting. "Not if one crossed close under the window, sir hands and knees." "Good boy! Can you manage it, Lydia? Keep close by the wall, tuck in your tuppeny and slip across." She nodded. "And where after that?"
"Seven sausingers, dree and sixpence; twenty-vour slices o' bread an' butter, two shillin's; an' a bottle of shampane, seven and sixpence; kums to thirteen shillin's," she sed. "Yer tell'd me as how the sausingers wur sixpence," I sed; "an' the slices o' bread ud cut off a tuppeny loaf."
What was the good of asking Jamesey McKeown to sing Gaelic songs and till the land when his heart was hungering for the tuppeny excitements of a Glasgow music-hall? What would Jamesey McKeown make of Galway's translations? Would bind him to the nurture of the earth when What ho! she bumps called him to Glasgow? "We must think of something!"
He turned to a man who was leaning against the iron railings. "What's down there?" he asked, pointing to the stairs leading to the Central London Railway. "The Toob," said the man. "The what?" "The Toob. The Tuppeny Toob. Undergrahnd Rylewy!" "Oh, is that what you call the Tuppeny Tube?" John exclaimed, as comprehension came to him.
I shouldn't put up with that for a moment, you know." "Of course you wouldn't, because you are a man. But suppose you were a girl, and your father was perfectly unreasonable. What would you do then?" "I'd drop the matter for a bit," advised Percival, at a venture. "Let him think you didn't care a tuppeny. Pretend to be awfully keen about something else, and, likely as not, he'll come round.
He had quietly reached the door, and once outside the sledding was excellent. Bunch had his business suit on under the burglar make-up. It didn't take him two minutes to work the shine darbies over his hands. He then peeled off the ulster and the tuppeny trousers, and throwing these and the Svengalis over the fence, he was home again from the Bad Lands.
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