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Updated: May 16, 2025
He counted out the change, and Dicky who was not old enough yet to do sums pretended to find it correct. But he was old enough to have acquired charming manners, and after thanking the drug-seller, gave the girl quite a grown-up little bow as he passed out. She would have followed, but the man said, "Stay a moment. What's your name?" "Ruth Josselin." "Age?" "I was sixteen last month."
I am sorry for troubling you." She took a small, round parcel from her pocket, laid it on the counter, and held out her hand for the coin. The drug-seller eyed her. "There must be some mistake, I guess," said he, as he gave back the gold piece. "No, and you can take up your packet too; I don't grudge two-pennyworth of salve.
"Then listen to a word of advice, Ruth Josselin, and don't you take money like that from fine gentlemen like the Collector. They don't give it to the ugly ones. Understand?" "Thank you," she said. "I am going to give it back;" and slipping the guinea into her pocket, she said "Good evening," and walked swiftly out in the wake of the child. The drug-seller looked after her shrewdly.
A guinea-piece is a guinea-piece, and a guinea is twenty-one shillings; and twenty-one shillings, likely enough, is more'n you'll earn in a year outside o' your keep. Who gave it ye?" "A gentleman the Collector at the Inn just now. "Ho!" said the drug-seller, with a world of meaning. "But if," she went on, "it is worth so much as you say, there must be some mistake. Give it back to me, please.
She stood with her back to the doorway and a little sidewise by the counter, from behind which the drug-seller a burly fellow in a suit of black looked down on her doubtfully, rubbing his shaven chin while he glanced from her to something he held in his open palm. "I'm askin' you," he said, "how you came by it?" "It was given to me," the girl answered. "That's a likely tale!
Dicky had not quite outgrown his infantile lisp "and if she's come for stuff to put on them, please I want to pay for it." "But I don't want you to," put in the girl, still hesitating by the counter. "But I'd rather insisted Dicky. "Tut!" said the drug-seller. "A matter of twopence won't break either of us. Captain Vyell's boy, are you? Well, then, I'll take your coppers on principle."
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