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"'We 'ad over nine quid each, me and Peter, ses Ginger. 'Where's the rest? "'It's all I've got left, ses Sam; 'every ha'penny. "He 'ad to undress and even take 'is boots off afore they'd believe 'im, and then Ginger took 'is watch and he ses to Peter, 'Lemme see; 'arf of seventeen pounds is eight pounds ten; 'arf of five shillings is 'arf-a-crown; and 'arf of fourpence is twopence.
"Bless her innocence, she don't know what is proper to give to a low sort like me! But I will not rob the young lady. 'Arf-a-crown is no more nor is fair for the job, and arf-a-crown will I keep, if agreeable to your noble ladyship. But I give you back the five bob in trust for her. Have you ever noticed her expressive hi?" "Nonsense, sir. You had better keep the money now that you have got it."
The bargee was moved to compassion by the sight of the poor faintin' lady, and the offer of 'arf-a-crown, and he had a mother that acted as a mother should. There was a cabin in that barge about as big as the locker where your ladyship keeps your jam and pickles, and in that locker the bargee lives, quite domestic, with his wife and mother and five children.
" Unless, to be sure that is to say, if you should happen to have a shilling about you?" "I got no change but 'arf-a-crown, if that's any use," answered the charmed Sam. "Nothing smaller? Still," suggested Mr. Mortimer quickly, "I could bring back the change." "Yes, do." "It will please Arabella, too.
The doctor's views of the glory of his profession cried out against this wretched haggling, and yet what was he to do? "Where am I to get 'arf-a-crown? It is well for gentlefolk like you who sit in your grand houses, and can eat and drink what you like, an' charge 'arf-a-crown for just saying as much as, ''Ow d'ye do? We can't pick up' arf-crowns like that. What we gets we earns 'ard.
For the likes of him, he meant Yuss, I don't think! . . . Oh, hold my little hand and check the tearful flow, for I'm to be a ship's boy at 'arf-a-crown a month, and go Empire buildin'!" "There!" said Mr. Harris, indicating a coil of rope. "Sit down and have it out." Some five or six years later, Mr.
The gypsy woman looked at him reproachfully out of her one uncovered eye. "Are you going to charge me for that?" she asked. "How much, then?" "Well, say half-a-crown." He mentioned the sum in a half-jesting way, as though it were too small to take serious notice of, but the gypsy woman raised quite a scream at the mention of it. "'Arf-a-crown! for that?"
He thought: "Oh dear! He's a-given me an 'arf-a-crown. He does look well I like to see 'im look as well as that quite young! Oh dear!" The sun-that smoky, faring ball, which in its time had seen so many last editions of the Westminster Gazette was dropping down to pass the night in Shepherd's Bush.
The hard-faced landlady went up the stairs again, only stopping a moment to observe parenthetically that a sweeter little lady she never did, and what was 'arf-a-crown a week to you and me, John? and then, holding the corner of her apron in her hand, she informed Edie that her 'usband was prepared to accept the ten shillings weekly.
Hobbs hastily protested, in some alarm at the expression of Merrington's face, "I'm coming to it fast enough, but my head is so full of this here kiddy that I hardly know whether I'm standing on my 'ead or my 'eels. It's like this 'ere: a few days ago there was a young man come into my shop to pawn his weskit. I lent him arf-a-crown on it and he goes away.
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