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"I don't know nothing of his ways, Mr Cheesacre; but I've been as true to you, sir; so I have; as true as true." And Jeannette put her handkerchief up to her eyes. He moved to the door, and then a thought occurred to him. He put his hand to his trousers pocket, and turning back towards the girl, gave her half-a-crown. She curtsied as she took it, and then repeated her last words.
"Then that gray car can hardly have been our gray car," commented Theydon, deeming it wise to prevent the sharp-witted taxi-driver from jumping at conclusions. "I'm afraid not, sir. Still, I just took the liberty " "I'm very much obliged to you, of course. I said half-a-crown, didn't I? Here you are. Keep an eye open for XY 1314 and let me know if you hear or see anything of it."
Now what the parson says to me is this: 'You give these young gentlemen luncheon for which they pays half-a-crown ahead, and it's worth it, and my missis drives up in the pony-cart at five and gives everybody tea. It's like a bargain, you understand." Bagshaw understood most thoroughly and tried to stop the flow of Mr.
The trip did me good. It did not cure me. I wrote a book a very little one. Half-a-crown was its price. The present First Lord of the Treasury, Mr. W. H. Smith, published it. All the edition was sold. I did not venture another. I will quote some portions of it, as a preface to what is to follow. When this book was just out of the press, I received the following letters from Mr. Cobden:
The children of the district were especially handsome, and Madame was much smitten by their rosy cheeks and many-shaded flaxen hair. "Ah!" she sighed, "I must make some little presents to the children;" and she looked anxiously over the stalls. "Violin, one and six," said the saleswoman. "Nice work-box for a little girl, half-a-crown." "Half a fiddlestick," said Jack promptly.
He was a very civil fellow, and his price, if I remember rightly was half-a-crown. Yet the digger hunting was continued at Ballarat until it ended in the massacre of December 3rd 1854. At that time I was at Colac, and while Dr.
"It's quite a private affair, sir," the woman told him. "We charge only five shillings for the dogs and half-a-crown for the cats, but every one who has one must sign our book, promising to give it a good home, and has to be either known to us or to produce references. We do not attempt, of course, to snake a profit." "Who on earth is responsible for the upkeep?"
"Sir," said the man, "they all aspire to the honour of attending you while you bathe; you have only to choose which it shall be. Half-a-crown will pay for the bath, the girl, and your coffee." As if I were the Grand Turk, I examined the swarm of rustic beauties, and threw my handkerchief at the one I liked the best.
It is for bread and tin-meats they clamour, and they are willing to pay. But a loaf costs a shilling. Everything costs a shilling here, unless it costs half-a-crown; and Natal grows fat on war. A shilling for a bit of bread! What is the good of Christianity? So the dusky hands are withdrawn, and the poor Zulu with untutored maw goes starving on.
There is a loss on English money, as half-a-crown only passes for a half-dollar, sixpence for a dime, and so forth; indeed, the average loss seems to be about twopence in the shilling. The two first are moral and respectable, but indulge in the American sins of personalities and mutual vituperation.
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