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Will you give a fifty-pound bill, at six months, for half down and half in plate," asked Altamont. "Yes, I would, so help me , and pay it on the day," screamed Clavering. "I'll make it payable at my banker's: I'll do any thing you like." "Well, I was only chaffing you. I'll give you twenty pound."
"He's off," was the prompt reply. "Continent. Afternoon train. Waterloo, three o'clock." Mr. Benjamin's eyes sparkled. "I knew it!" he exclaimed triumphantly. "Job's over, Leekson. Get me a cab, and go to the office for your money." "You're going to let him go!" cried Mr. Levy piteously. "Not I. I'm going with him, dad. A fifty-pound note from the safe, quick." Mr.
The old man made me go to the skiff and fetch the things he had got. There was a fifty-pound sack of corn meal, and a side of bacon, ammunition, and a four-gallon jug of whisky, and an old book and two newspapers for wadding, besides some tow. I toted up a load, and went back and set down on the bow of the skiff to rest.
Our party there broke up end of August: the partridge-shooting commencing. Baroness Bernstein, whose kindness to me has been most invariable, has been to Bath, her usual winter resort, and has made me a welcome present of a fifty-pound bill. I rode back with Rev. Mr. Lambert, Oakhurst House, who send my honored mother their most affectionate remembrances.
Watkins was due to arrive from Arequipa in a day or two, but we decided not to wait for him or run any further risk of encountering an early summer snowstorm. The next morning, after adjusting our fifty-pound loads to our unaccustomed backs, we left camp about nine o'clock.
The auction began, every bid was greeted with bursts of applause, and at the end of two hours and a half a population of fifteen thousand souls had paid in coin for a fifty-pound sack of flour a sum equal to forty thousand dollars in greenbacks! It was at a rate in the neighborhood of three dollars for each man, woman and child of the population.
I found that out when I was at Barchester." "But Crawley was his friend." "Yes, Crawley was his friend; but I don't know that fifty-pound notes have always been so plentiful with him. Deans' incomes ain't what they were, you know." "I don't know anything about that," said Johnny. "Well; they are not. And he has nothing of his own, as far as I can learn.
Abercromby knows you. Here is a pocket-book. Lose a few fifty-pound notes to the old boy on the train. Amuse him, mind you, and set him up well! The car will be well stocked. I leave my two men here to wait on you and him. That's all. I want to go off 'in a blaze of glory, as the Yankees would say. I will meet you at Delhi. Abercromby comes to my house. Can I depend on you?
"The woman's first instinct would be to shut and fasten the window. But, halloa! What is this?" It was a lady's hand-bag which stood upon the study table a trim little handbag of crocodile-skin and silver. Holmes opened it and turned the contents out. There were twenty fifty-pound notes of the Bank of England, held together by an india-rubber band nothing else.
In the space under the cabin floor was stored an extra heavy anchor for use in emergency, in addition to the two fifty-pound mud-hooks the Bolo regularly carried.
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