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Updated: June 14, 2025
"I cannot say I do," said I, "Andrew; but I should like to hear you explain yourself;" and therewithal I slipped a crown-piece into Andrew's horn-hard hand.
Callaghan looked doubtfully at the piece of English silver produced by the woman, and turned it round between her finger and thumb. 'I say, squire, stop a minute: what sort o' money's this? 'A crown-piece sterling; you'll give six shillings and a penny currency for it, answered Mr. Wynn. 'Now I guess that's what I don't understand, said Liberia. 'Why ain't five shillin's the same everywhar?
The tinker looked long at the crown-piece, and then sliding it into his pocket, said to himself, "Ho, 'ush-money! No go, my swell cove." After venting that brief soliloquy he sat silent a little while, till Leonard was nearly out of sight; then rose, resumed his fardel, and creeping quick along the hedgerows, followed Leonard towards the town.
Her friend answered more sensibly: 'Yes, you can't go in there before some time in the morning. I learnt from her that the Bench was a debtors' prison. The saucy girl of the pair asked me for money. I handed her a crown-piece. 'Now won't you give another big bit to my friend? said she. I had no change, and the well-mannered girl bade me never mind, the saucy one pressed for it, and for a treat.
I find hoops are all the mode again, and very large indeed so big that when you enter a door you have to double your hoop round in front, or lift it on one side out of the way. The cap is a little scrap of a thing, scarce bigger than a crown-piece, and a flower or pompoon is stuck at the side; stomachers are worn, and very full elbow-ruffles; velvet slippers with high heels.
He had conducted the negotiation in the plainest, manliest spirit, looking the eager girl in the face with his blue eyes, and receiving her crown-piece in his hand, which was nobler than his face, inasmuch as it was seamed with the action of his paints and tools, without a notion of anything unbecoming or degrading.
This news transported us with joy, and we thought that our safety depended on this feeble resource. This little compass was about the size of a crown-piece, and far from correct.
It is wrong to pet a big boy like you. Does not he what you call tip you, Crossjay?" "Generally half-crown pieces. I've had a crown-piece. I've had sovereigns." "And for that you do as he bids you? And he indulges you because you . . . Well, but though Mr. Whitford does not give you money, he gives you his time, he tries to get you into the navy." "He pays for me." "What do you say?" "My keep.
After some difficulty, I fixed my glass upon a number of little sparrows about the size of the chippies. They bore a close resemblance to that species too, save that the crown-piece and the general tone of the back were decidedly darker, while the under parts were a good deal whiter.
That is why I am come to offer you the hand of friendship, and I venture to say you will regard as a mark of my amity and my esteem the request I proffer for a crown-piece, which I find needful to sustain an existence consecrated to learned studies." The parlour was filling with pupils and their friends and relations.
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