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"If he'd thought the gang of counterfeiters that was supposed to have bought the plate from him had run off only one fiver and then stopped because they say it wouldn't get by, and weren't going to run any more, and just destroy the plate like it was supposed to have been destroyed to begin with, and it all end up with no one the wiser, where d'ye think we'd have banked that fifteen thousand!
He had scarcely done so when deep in the undergrowth of blackthorn a hound challenged. "Spendigo for a fiver! and well found, by the tune of it," cried Sir Harry. "See that patch of grey wall, Rablin there, in a line beyond the Master's elbow? I lay you an even guinea that's where my gentleman comes over." But honest reprobation mottled the face of Mr.
Ah, now you have lost a fiver altogether how queer! We'll double the stakes. So, as I was saying, just at the time the books came I got an inkling of this important business, and literature went to the wall. 'Important business what? 'The capture of this lady, to be sure. De Stancy sighed impatiently. 'I wish you were less calculating, and had more of the impulse natural to your years!
Now's your chance. Get him away, and I'll stand you something handsome upon my soul I will!" "What do you call something handsome?" inquired Tillotson, whose pulse was not so feverish as his friend's. "Get him safe to London and I'll stand a fiver," said Glover. "Now go. I'll stay here." Mr.
"Naught much odd half-crown now and then," replied Polke. "Why?" "Lay you a fiver to a shilling Miss Fosdyke won't see anything of Horbury's nor get any information!" answered Starmidge, more slyly than ever. "She won't be allowed!" Polke gave the detective a shrewd look. "I dare say!" he said. "Whew! it's a queer game, this, Starmidge. First moves of it, anyway."
"I don't see why they shouldn't have him," said Edward Henry, as he lifted a challenging nose in the air. "Perhaps you don't, Alderman!" said Brindley. "I wouldn't mind going to Wilkins's," Edward Henry persisted. "I'd like to see you," said Brindley, with curt scorn. "Well," said Edward Henry, "I'll bet you a fiver I do."
I fancy if he had said it was the interest that he objected to he would have been nearer the truth: twenty-five per cent. certainly does come heavy. There are degrees in being hard up. We are all hard up, more or less most of us more. Some are hard up for a thousand pounds; some for a shilling. Just at this moment I am hard up myself for a fiver. I only want it for a day or two.
Bruce bid a "fiver" for Thunderer, and was told he would fetch that for cats' meat, and then the game went on. In the end Bruce said he would give fifteen guineas, and take him to London that day. I nearly seized him by the hand, and told him he was a rare good sort, which I was quite convinced he was not.
"If you take my advice, which you won't, I know, you will not utter that sort of remark publicly." "Can't help it. Bet you a fiver I'm engaged to Doris Martin within a week." Mr. Siddle took thought. "Why so quickly?" he asked, after a pause. "I'll catch her on the hop, of course. If she's engaged to me it'll help her a lot when this case comes into court."
I will challenge my man, whoever he as that needs a lesson, to touch buttons on a waistcoat with the button on the foil, or drill fiver and eights in cards at twenty paces: but I will not fight him though he offend me, for I am stronger than my temper, and as I do not want to take his nip of life, and judge it to be of less value than mine, the imperilling of either is an absurdity.
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