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"I sold it for thirty bob," ses Bob Pretty, "and when I went out this evening I left the money on my bedroom mantelpiece one pound, two arf-crowns, two two-shilling pieces, and two sixpences. My wife and her sister both saw it there. That they'll swear to." "Well, wot about it?" ses Sam Jones, staring at 'im.
"I have told you that these young ladies are not my daughters," said Miss Wilson sharply. "Why do you not listen to what is said to you?" "Don't be too hard on a common man, lady," said Smilash submissively. "The young lady have just given me three 'arf-crowns." "Three half-crowns!" exclaimed Miss Wilson, angered at such extravagance.
"Then," said Saunders, slapping the table solemnly, "theer's nobbut one more thing to say an' sorry I am to say it. Them coins, Isaac" he pointed a slow finger at Bessie, whose white, fierce face moved involuntarily "them 'arf-crowns wor paid across the bar lasst night, or the night afore, at Dawson's, by yor wife, as is now stannin' there, an' she'll deny it if she can!"
"I mind well as when I were a lad, sixteen year ago, my fayther borrered a bit o' money off John Bolderfield, to buy a cow with an' there was 'arf of it in them 'arf-crowns." Those standing near overheard. Bessie and the girl stopped quarrelling. The landlord, startled, cast a sly eye in Bessie's direction. She came up to the bar. "What's that yer sayin'?" she demanded.
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.
He threw his curly head back and laughed till his sides shook. "Lor', I didn't think I wor going to know quite so soon! An' sich queer 'arf-crowns, they ses, as she keeps a-changin'. Jarge somethin' an old cove in a wig. An' 'ere they is, I'll be blowed some on 'em. Well, yer a nice 'un, yer are!" He stared her up and down with a kind of admiration.
She might have taken more and Timothy less; no doubt she was making it out as bad as she could for Timothy. But it lay between them his wife and his son it lay between them. "An' I 'eard yer coming," she ended; "an' I thought I'd tell yer an' I wor frightened about the 'arf-crowns people 'ad been talkin' so at Dawson's an' I didn't see no way out an' an' "
Mr. Brisher indicated a moderate-sized trunk. "FULL?" said I. "Full up of silver coins 'arf-crowns, I believe." "Why!" I cried, "that would mean hundreds of pounds." "Thousands," said Mr. Brisher, in a sort of sad calm. "I calc'lated it out." "But how did they get there?" "All I know is what I found. What I thought at the time was this.
Them coins, Isaac' he pointed a slow finger at Bessie, whose white, fierce face moved involuntarily 'them 'arf-crowns wor paid across the bar lasst night, or the night afore, at Dawson's, by yor wife, as is now stannin there, an she'll deny it if she can! For an instant the whole group preserved their positions the breath suspended on their lips.
If the young lady thinks I hadn't ort to have kep' the tother 'arfcrown, I would not object to its bein' stopped from my wages if I were given a job of work here. But " "But it's nonsense," said Agatha. "I never gave you three half-crowns." "Perhaps you mout 'a' made a mistake. Pence is summat similar to 'arf-crowns, and the day were very dark." "I couldn't have," said Agatha.
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