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Thomas Henry appeared to have "done" a mangy, emaciated animal, that must have been far happier dead than alive. Had the poor creature been mine I should have thanked him; but some people never know when they are well off. "I wouldn't ha' taken a five-pun' note for that cat," said the lady. "It's a matter of opinion," I replied, "but personally I think you would have been unwise to refuse it.
"Begob, I did ondershtand it, an' moighty plazed I was to have come to a place where they pay five-pun' notes for carryin' bags. So whin he asked me was I new to London an' shud I kape in the same line av business, I towld him I shud for certin, or any thin' else payin' like it. 'Right, sez he; 'let me know whin ye've got any thin' ye'll find me all right. An' he winked frindly.
"Ay, ye may stare!" and the woman laughed again "And the devil has taken it all, except a five-pun' note which he sends to me to 'keep me goin', he says. Like his cheek! I'm not his wife, that's true! but I'm as much as any wife an' there's the kid " Robin glanced round apprehensively at the open window. "Hush!" he said "don't talk so loud "
There was cheques they was a bit of paper written on, and they was jes' as good as money jes' as good if they come from customers you knew. Then all of a sudden they wasn't. I was left with three of 'em and two I'd given' change. Then it got about that five-pun' notes were no good, and then the silver sort of went off. Gold you 'couldn't get for love or anything.
"How did it come about?" "It was a young woman as started 'im off," explained the old lady. "She come round to our place one day a-collectin' for somethin' or other, and Jack, in 'is free-'anded way, 'e give 'er a five-pun' note. Next week she come agen for somethin' else, and stopped and talked to 'im about 'is soul in the passage.
Well, of course I never supposed it was, being a theaytrical kind of property. Still, I don't suppose it was made for less than a five-pun note. Well, gentlemen," cried Ramball, rising slowly and giving his head a final dab, "I must be off.
"I don't pretend to do the swell thing; but I force my own pines and grow my own grapes, and can put as good a dessert on my table as you could buy in Covent Garden for a five-pun' note. That's my missus's fad, that is, and I can afford it; so why shouldn't I do it? You come and eat your Christmas dinner with us, Sheldon.
"Oh! bless'ee, but you're a sveet cove," rejoined Jack, "and no vun vould suppose for a moment that you cut Sal Gordon's throat, the night you coaxed her hoff to marry her, just because you took a fancy to a couple of five-pun notes she had in her trash-bag that she refused to give hup afore the knot vos tied."
"You go along the road an' wait for me," he said with a sudden ferocity which made the woman start. "Off with ye now. I'll come up with ye: unless this gentleman 'ud make it a matter of a five-pun' note." "Hold your dirty tongue," said Patsy, and landed Mr. Baker one in the chest. The man rushed at him with his head down, a shower of foul words coming from his lips.
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