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Updated: May 24, 2025
This is what the conjurors here pride themselves upon doing. They look down with pity upon us miserable sinners who have none. They think themselves generous if they give our children a five-pound note, and us contemptible if we are without one."
The taxi-cab driver silently regarded his questioner. He had already had a five-pound note out of Carver, who carried a small fund about him in case of emergency; he was speculating on his chances of materially increasing this, and his eyes grew greedy. "Well, now, guv'nor, what's your own notion of that?" he asked at last.
"What's the use of thinking of things that's over? We should think of the future." "If I'd only been able to hedge that bet I should have been able to leave you something to go on with, but now, when everything is paid for, you'll have hardly a five-pound note. You've been a good wife to me, and I've been a bad husband to you." "Bill, you mustn't speak like that.
Gaythorne has given me for poor Jack Travers," and he held a five-pound note before his wife's eyes. "Don't you think we owe him a handsome apology for calling him a miser? it does not do to judge by appearances in this world; Mr. Gaythorne is eccentric, and a trifle cantankerous, but he is not stingy." "Jack Travers! is that the poor man in the Models?
She accepted all that Philip did for her as if it were the most natural thing in the world, and on his side he loved to spend money on her: each five-pound note he gave her caused him a little thrill of happiness and pride; he gave her a good many, for she was not economical. "I don't know where the money goes to," she said herself, "it seems to slip through my fingers like water."
Before I could even turn to speak to him he had bolted round the corner and vanished! I stood staring at the five-pound note which Flanagan had left in my hand in a state of utter bewilderment. My first impulse was to give chase to my benefactor and compel him to take back the money. My second was to do nothing of the sort, but rejoice with thankfulness over the help thus unexpectedly sent me.
But my mother, who added a postscript to his letter, slipped in a five-pound note, and I do believe that it was with my father's sanction, although he pretended to be very angry at my forgetting his injunctions. A few days before this, Mr Falcon, the first lieutenant, ordered me to put on my side-arms to go away on duty.
And having got to Gilhampton at last, he changed his five-pound note, bought four pound postal orders, and repeated his manoeuvre with nineteen pounds. After a lapse of fifteen years he rediscovered this interesting world, about which so many people go incredibly blind and bored.
"I think I see," replied Constance "you mean that we part at the altar," and in spite of all her efforts to keep her face straight she finally laughed. "Well, I didn't intend to put it quite in that melodramatic way," resented Gresham. "Polly wins," declared Constance. "She bet me a five-pound box of chocolates that you would make that proposal, but I didn't really think you would do it."
There was that advertisement, you remember that about the five-pound bill in the paper, Daddy Angel?" "Ay, ay, Master Chuter," said Daddy Angel; "after the big storm, five year ago. Sartinly, Master Chuter." "Was it ever found, do ye think?" said Master Linseed, the painter and decorator.
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