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Sir Giles Wapshot's family were insulted that one of the Wapshot girls had not the preference in the marriage, and the remaining baronets of the county were indignant at their comrade's misalliance. Never mind the commoners, whom we will leave to grumble anonymously. Sir Pitt did not care, as he said, a brass farden for any one of them.
He paused, and shading his bleared eyes under his gnarled hand, looked steadfastly at two huddled, motionless, grimy figures, lying in the charred grass beside the pathway. "Dang my old eyes!" he cried. "'Tis George an' Alfred Alfred an' George snatched away i' their drink an' neither of 'em insured. I'll lay a farden.
"'Is it truth yer telling? says my father. "'Sorra word o' lie in it! Myself had two-and-fourpence of their notes. "'And so they're broke, says my father, 'and nothing left? "'Not a brass farden. "'And what am I staying here for, I wonder, if there's nothing to guard? "'Faix, if it isn't for the pride of the thing "'Oh, sorra taste! "'Well, may be for divarsion. "'Nor that either.
Here we had everything that any man in his senses could wish for, and we wasn't contented. Every one was going to cut away and leave him; he'd be all by himself, with no one but the dog for company, and be as miserable as a bandicoot; but no one cared a blank brass farden about that. 'Come with us, governor, says Starlight, 'have a cruise round the world, and smell salt water again.
"My good friend Paudeen, I am richer than you are disposed to give me credit for; I see you are a good-hearted fellow, and here's a crown for you." "No! consumin' to the farden, till I know whether you're able to afford it or not. It's always them that has least of it, unfortunately, that's readiest to give it.
"Where be'est going?" says I. "To doctor's," says he, "arter some stuff for Alfred King." 'Yes, said Paul, speaking more to Farden than to his master, 'and then Mrs. King gave me some supper, and that was what made me so late. 'She ought to be ashamed of herself, then, said Mrs. Shepherd spitefully, 'having a vagabond scamp like that drinking beer at her house at that time of night.
So you see, Billy, I don't mean to leave you a sixpence." "Well, uncle," said Billy with a quiet look, "I don't care a brass farden!" Again the captain laughed. "But," he continued, "I'm very fond o' you, Billy, an' there's no reason why I shouldn't help you, to help yourself.
At this the Cornish maiden broke into a rage of honesty: 'A putt the money by for 'ee. 'Ee shall have every farden of it. And so she flung out of the room. 'And, Gwenny, said Lorna very softly, following under the door-hangings; 'if it is not honest to keep the money, it is not honest to keep the letters, which would have been worth more than any gold to those who were so kind to you.
To others of the inhabitants he was reticent, merely referring to an emolument he was entitled to. "The man on the lid," he said, "has a farden." He said this with such conviction that few had the heart to deny the justice of the claim outright, resorting to subterfuges to evade a cash settlement.
'There was talk betwixt 'em after a few years o' not takin' any more week-end money for Mary; but let alone she never passed a farden in the mire 'thout longin's, Jim didn't care, like, to push himself forward into the Society's remembrance. So naun came of it. The week-end money would ha' made no odds to Jim not after his uncle willed him they four cottages at Eastbourne an' money in the bank.
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