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Lord Reginald was eager for the attack, but Voules, as he made out the numbers in which the smugglers mustered, heartily wished that he had remained to enjoy the society of the ladies at the hall. "We are likely to get more kicks than ha'pence, and little honour, at all events," he muttered to himself.
If you choose to come and serve for your board, and what they'll give you, give me your fist; or if you like ten shillings a week better than their sixpences and ha'pence, only say so though, to be open with you, I believe you would make twice ten shillings out of them the sneaking, fawning, curry-favouring humbugs!"
So we draw about the kitchen fire and play a round game of cards for ha'pence, or go to the billiard-room for a match at corks; and by one consent a messenger is sent over for the wagonette Grez shall be left to-morrow. To-morrow dawns so fair that two of the party agree to walk back for exercise, and let their knapsacks follow by the trap.
"'Is your aunt kind to you? "'She gives me my wittles. "'Suppose you did not get any money all day, what would she say to you? "'Oh, she won't give me a hidin' to-day, sir, supposin' I gets no more. You've giv' me enough already, sir; thank you, sir. I'll change it into ha'pence. "'She does beat you sometimes, then? "'Oh, my!
"Take care, Mademoiselle Rosalie," he rejoined, half seriously, "that you don't miss the ha'pence before you get the kisses." She turned pale in very fear. What was he going to say? Was the post-office to be taken from them? She came straight to the point. "What have I done wrong, Monsieur?
Child voices joined in, and presently from a bend in the track, 'three ha'pence for tuppence, three ha'pence for tuppence, came a lumbering old horse, urged into an unwonted canter. Three kiddies bestrode the ancient, and as they swung along they sang snatches of Kipling's 'Recessional, to an old hymn-tune that lingers in the memory of us all.
"Hem!" grunted the doctor, "that won't help Kathleen." "It's a consolation to her, and always will be. To have had a good father is of as much value as a fortune," replied the priest. "From your point of view, perhaps. There is only one thing you people value the soul. The poor body may look after itself, and often gets more kicks than ha'pence." The priest smiled significantly.
It did not occur to him that the tailor the mysterious figure in the parish might be responsible. He was observant, but not imaginative; he was moved by what he saw, in a quiet, unexplainable manner. "The government is the best sort of husband. From the other sort you would get more kisses and less ha'pence," he continued. "That might be a satisfactory balance-sheet, Monsieur."
Besides, as Dicky said to himself, while Mahommed kept his head, he would not risk parading himself as the servant of the infidel who had invaded the Pasha's harem. Again, it was certain that he had an adequate devotion to his master, who had given him as many ha'pence as kicks, and many cast-off underclothes and cigarettes.
He went on as if I had not spoken: "Judge, then, my amazement and grief to find you returning from your voyage to the West intent upon leaving me, upon casting aside the position and duties for which I had trained you, and upon going down to Albany to dicker for pence and ha'pence with the other Dutchmen there. I did not forbid your going.
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