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I know he's called Morality Joseph. An all but acknowledged five-pound-note man was the last they visited. He cut short the preliminaries of the interview by saying that he was a four-o'clock man; i.e. the man who waited for the final bids to him upon the closing hour of the election day.
He came back later in the afternoon, and I was pleased to sell him the next week for a five-pound-note: it cost me about another ten to repair myself. "To this day I am chaffed about that pony, and the local temperance society made a lecture out of me. That's what comes of following advice." I sympathized with him. I have suffered from advice myself.
Uncle James Patten doled out a five-pound-note to Beth by way of a wedding present from the long rent-roll her mother should have inherited. "This is to help with your trousseau, but do not be extravagant," he said in his pleasant way. "As the wife of a professional man, you will descend from my class to the class below, the middle class, and you should dress according to your station.
I mean to deliberate. You young nobs capering over our heads I nail you down to morals. Politics secondary. Adew, as the dying spirit remarked to weeping friends. 'Au revoir would have been kinder, said Palmet. Mr. Tripehallow smiled roguishly, to betoken comprehension. Beauchamp asked Mr. Oggler whether that fellow was to be taken for a humourist or a five-pound-note man. 'It may be both, sir.
"Why, what's this all about?" "That's what I want to know. I borrowed a five-pound-note off of him a fortnight ago when I was drunk, an' now he sends me that." "Well, I never would have dream'd that of Dinny," says the cousin, scratching his head and blinking. "What's come over him at all?" "That's what I want to know." "What have you been doing to the man?"
I know he's called Morality Joseph. An all but acknowledged five-pound-note man was the last they visited. He cut short the preliminaries of the interview by saying that he was a four-o'clock man; i.e. the man who waited for the final bids to him upon the closing hour of the election day.
"Your uncle will lend me a five-pound-note," he said. "He will lend you as much as you want; but I don't think he's in the house," I answered. "I have two myself, though! I'll run and fetch them." I bounded away to get the notes. It was like having a common purse already, to lend John ten pounds!
Aunt Grace Mary slipped two sovereigns into her hand when they parted, but these Beth kept, she hardly knew why, as she had her half-year's dividend to look forward to. About the time that her money was due, Dan began to talk incessantly of money difficulties. Bills were pressing, and he did not know where on earth to look for a five-pound-note.
"Divil a thing that I'm aware of." 'The cousin rubbed his chin-tuft between his forefinger and thumb. "Well, what am I to do about it?" asked the Flour impatiently. "Do? Pay the man, of course?" "How can I pay the lovely man when I haven't got the price of a drink about me?" 'The cousin scratched his chin. "Well here, I'll lend you a five-pound-note for a month or two.
"The water must be so very deep down there," said Hilary. "I don't believe there's one of us who'd go across for a five-pound-note," said Ida. "What offers? Don't all speak at once!" The girls smiled, and were turning away to follow Miss Todd, when Geraldine stopped and held up a finger. "What's that noise?" she asked. "I don't hear anything but the stream," said Ida doubtfully.
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