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Well, she is fun! she don't mind handin' you a five-shilling piece when she's done tender: but I have nearly lost my place two or three time along of that woman. She'd split logs with laughing: no need of beetle and wedges! Aha! ain't it good?" "Oh! the tinker's dog! won't I remember that!" said the damsel, "she can't be such a fool." "Well, I don't know," Gainsford meditated critically.
"Usual thing: sixpenny ante and five-shilling limit." "Let's have it a shilling ante and a sovereign limit," he proposed, as they made room for him at the table, and to this they agreed, and the game began.
'Why, yes that's to say, near his dad. The fact is, continued he, 'I've a little independence of my own, dropping a heavy five-shilling piece as he said it, and his father old Bo, as I call him adjoins me; and if either of us 'appen to have a battue, or a 'aunch of wenzun, and a few friends, we inwite each other, and wicey wersey, you know, letting off a lot of shillings and sixpences.
The sum of money which I propose to put into your hands will probably represent to me what a five-shilling piece might to you. This may sound vulgar, but it is true. I think that I need not warn you never to come to me for more. You need not look so horrified. I am quite sure that you would not do that. And there is one thing further." "Yes?" the boy asked. "Another condition?"
I have scores of nephews and nieces, and also many friends, in America, to whom I want to send picture postcards. Now," he continued, "listen here. Here's seven shillings, one for each of you; and here's a five-shilling piece.
I was then able to distinguish the happy party I had left; and I saw that Lord Orville had seated himself next to Mrs. Mirvan. Sir Clement had his eyes perpetually cast towards the five-shilling gallery, where I suppose he concluded that we were seated; however, before the opera was over, I have reason to believe that he had discovered me, high and distant as I was from him.
The refreshment booths and the other rooms at the back and underside of the five-shilling stand had been thrown together, except the barber's shop, which was being converted into an operating chamber; and, what with its tiled walls and high sloped ceiling and glass front, the place made a first-rate hospital.
His good-humour being in some degree restored by the vision of Ralph Nickleby swallowing, perforce, a five-shilling piece, Newman slowly brought forth from his desk one of those portable bottles, currently known as pocket-pistols, and shaking the same close to his ear so as to produce a rippling sound very cool and pleasant to listen to, suffered his features to relax, and took a gurgling drink, which relaxed them still more.
Cartloads of provisions had been seen to come. An immediate reward of a deed of benevolence, is a thing sensibly heavenly; and the five-shilling tickets were paid for as if for a packet on the counter. Unacquainted with Mr.
'Here's a young gentleman as I've been more than a father to yes, more than a father to for when did his own father ever give him a ferret-eyed rabbit, a real ferret-eyed rabbit thoroughbred? 'Why, I gave you one of my five-shilling pieces for it, said I; 'and the rabbit was in a consumption and died in three weeks. But Tom still addressed the sea.
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