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"That's all very well, cabby," I said, "but it's just likely you want to add another sovereign to that five-pound ten. If you do I don't mind putting another in your way. I tell you that I want to catch the man I was after to-night.
And the best proof that the world had confidence in him is the fact, that for the articles of plate, equipage, and furniture, which have been mentioned as being in his possession, he did not pay one single shilling; and so prudent was he, that but for turnpikes, postage-stamps, and king's taxes, he hardly had occasion to change a five-pound note of his wife's fortune. To tell the truth, Mr.
Give me your little hand, dear, and let me put the money into it. Here; it makes quite a small parcel a ten-pound note, a five-pound note, two sovereigns and a half. Now, Daisy, shall we keep this as a little secret between ourselves? Primrose will ask no questions if you beg of her not, and when you have put that money into her hand will you not be able to have her with you again?"
'I suppose it would; though those people would only stay a day or two, Miss Harrow said. 'Why can't Mr Yule make them friends, those two lots of people? asked Dora. 'You say he's on good terms with both. 'I suppose he thinks it's no business of his. Jasper mused over the letter from his friend. 'Ten years hence, he said, 'if Reardon is still alive, I shall be lending him five-pound notes.
Tewett Hall had gone to rack and ruin for four years, and was now let almost for nothing. He was a fair, frail young man, with a bad eye, and a weak mouth, and a thin hand, who was fond of liqueurs, and hated to the death any acquaintance who won a five-pound note of him, or any tradesman who wished to have his bill paid.
At these words Grannie rose to her feet. "Nothing," she said, "nothing it's nothing more than what I'd call a storm in a tea-cup. They have lost a five-pound note at Shaw's and they choose, the Lord knows why, to put the blame on our Ally. Of course they'll find the note, and Ally will be cleared." "It seems a pity she left the shop," said David. "Pity!" said Mrs. Reed.
From a pocket-book, he took a little brown paper envelope and from the brown paper envelope counted out four five-pound notes, five golden sovereigns, one half-sovereign, and ten shillings' worth of silver. Soames' eyes glittered, delightedly. "A little informal receipt?" smiled Gianapolis, raising his eyebrows, satanically. "Here on this page of my notebook I have written: 'Received from Mr.
Only Peggy drew a correct inference from the valet wait till you see him! As Peggy said, I've been getting on." He laid a light hand on the Dean's shoulder. "While all you folks in Durdlebury, especially my dear Doggie, for the last ten years have been durdling, I've been doing. I've not come all this way to tap relations for five-pound notes.
Melchitsedek Pinchas by dint of a five-pound note from Sir Asher Aaronsberg in acknowledgement of the dedication to him of the poet's 'Songs of Zion' had carried his genius to the great new Jewry across the Atlantic. He had arrived in New York only that very March, and already a crowd of votaries hung upon his lips and paid for all that entered them.
Elmsdale; but I knew afterwards he picked me out as a person likely to be useful to him. "He was on good terms with my employers, and asked them to allow me to bid for some houses he wanted to purchase at a sale. "To this hour I do not know why he did not bid for them himself. He gave me a five-pound note for my services; and that was the beginning of our connection.
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