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The two then got into a violent altercation that speedily attracted everyone's attention, a small crowd gathering round the disputants just abaft the mainmast. "I tell you I haven't a ha'penny left," I heard "Downy" say, after a lot of words passing between them the gist of which I could not catch. "No, not a ha'penny left, I swear. I've paid it all to this good lady here for clothes!"
"Get half a pound of leg beef," said she, "and then we'll have fourpence left for bread and tea; no, take the other penny, too, and get half a pound of pieces at the butcher's for twopence and a twopenny tin of condensed milk, that's fourpence, and a three ha'penny loaf and one penny for tea, that's sixpence ha'penny, and get onions with the odd ha'penny, and we'll put them in the beef tea.
Paul, who had never met Lord Ernest, but had once seen his name in a ha'penny paper beneath a photograph of Mr Arnold Bennett, bowed silently. "As you probably guess, I want you to paint my daughter's portrait." Paul opened his mouth to say that he was only a landscape painter, and then closed it again. After all, it was hardly fair to bother her Grace with technicalities.
Then he told Rupert to have a try, and Rupert found some bits of string, a few buttons, two penny stamps, and twopence ha'penny in coppers. "Never mind," ses Mr. Alfredi; "I'll go round to the police-station in the morning; p'r'aps the boy 'as taken them there. I'm disapp'inted in George. I shall tell 'im so, too." He bid Rupert good-night and went off with Mrs.
"See here, mater," remarked Alaric firmly, "every ha'penny of ours goes out of Gifford's bank and into something that has a bottom to it. In future, I'LL manage the business of this family."
This is all I want a bed, and perhaps a tuppenny ha'penny strip of carpet, a couple of chairs, a let me see; if you give me a slip of paper I can make out in a minute what it will come to. 'Never mind that. Will a ten-pound note serve your purposes? 'Dear boy! Dear boy! But on one condition, on one condition only, can I accept it this is a loan, a loan mind! and not a gift.
She makes children's suits coats and knickerbockers for ha'penny a piece, with tuppence for finishing, and her cotton to find; and, do 'er best, she won't make over four shillings and threepence a week, sometimes less.
She had forty minutes in advance of this to go home for her own dinner; and when she came back and one of the young men took his turn there was often half an hour during which she could pull out a bit of work or a book a book from the place where she borrowed novels, very greasy, in fine print and all about fine folks, at a ha'penny a day.
Tigg Montague's cab dashed by them in Regent Street, more gorgeous than ever. The brothers Cheeryble went trotting cityward arm in arm, with a smile and ha'penny for all the beggars they met; and the Micawber family passed them in a bus, going, I suppose, to accompany the blighted Wilkins to gaol.
"I won't lend 'im a ha'penny not a single, blessed ha'penny." "Who'd ha' thought 'e could ha' hit like that?" says Ginger. "That's wot gets over me. I never 'ad such a bang in my life never. I'm going to 'ave a little drop o' brandy my 'ead is fair swimming."
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