gift-money

Updated: July 5, 2026

I reflected, however, that it was not mere gift-money, but coin which I had earned, and hardly too, so I put it in my pocket, and I bethought me, moreover, that, knave as I knew him to be, he had always treated me with civility; so I nodded to him, and he said something which, perhaps, he meant for Latin, but which sounded very much like 'vails, and by which he doubtless alluded to the money which he had given me.

George Henry Borrow - The Romany Rye