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After we had talked for some time he said, "Life goes wonderfully fast, Regie, though you may not think so just now. I do so well remember being a child myself. My brother gave me half-a-crown, and I got one. It seems as if that one yonder must be it. I began a model of my father's house in card-board one winter, too. Then I got bronchitis, and did not finish it.
"Half-a-crown for entry, if you please. That's right. Now for particulars. Hum! you don't look like a servant!" "No; I wish for any place where my education can be of use. I can read and write; I know Latin and French; I can draw; I know arithmetic and summing." "What you like." "References?" "I have none." "Eh! none?" and Mr. Clump fixed his spectacles full upon Philip.
I agrees; and I puts a halter round her neck, and leads her to the market-place, the chap following to buy her. "Who bids for this woman," says I. "I do," says he. "What will you give?" "Half-a-crown," says he. "Will you throw a glass of grog into the bargain?" "Yes," says he. "Then she's yours; and I wish you much joy of your bargain." So I hands the rope to him, and he leads her off.
He proposed to me, supposing I had no objection against slow travelling, to join company for a couple of days, if I was for Hampshire, which I stated was the county I meant to visit. 'Well then, here now, come along, d 'ye see, look, said he, 'I mustn't be pounced on, and no missing young gentleman in my society, and me took half-a-crown for his absence; that won't do.
"Yes; that is, we have no coals, but we take orders, and have half-a-crown a chaldron for our trouble. As Mr Handycock says, it's a very good business, if you only had enough of it. Perhaps your lordship may be able to give us an order. It's nothing out of your pocket, and something into ours." "I shall be very happy, when I return again to town, Mrs Handycock. I hope the parrot is quite well."
Being told he was, he made a most lamentable moan, and said, he was just come from New England, and had the small-pox on him. The gardener went into the house, and, soon returning, told him the justice was not at home; but gave him half-a-crown. He still kept crying, I am a dying man, and I beseech you let me lie and die in some hay-tallet, or any place of shelter.
Just before the ceremony itself the youthful Wellington, who had confounded science by a remarkable recovery from his ailment, was confronted with the offer of half-a-crown if he acquitted himself well, and threatened with corporal punishment if he didn't.
"You'll want all day to-morrow, I suppose?" said Scrooge. "If quite convenient, sir." "It's not convenient," said Scrooge, "and it's not fair. If I was to stop half-a-crown for it, you'd think yourself ill used, I'll be bound?" The clerk smiled faintly. "And yet," said Scrooge, "you don't think me ill used when I pay a day's wages for no work." The clerk observed that it was only once a year.
I made a rapid calculation. He had ridden over eighteen fences for two pounds had chanced his life eighteen times at less than half-a-crown a time. "Good Heavens!" I said, "that's a poor game. Wouldn't you be better back on the station?" "Oh, I don't know sometimes we get laid a bit to nothing, and do well out of a race.
Thence to Westminster Hall, and there walked long with Mr. Creed, and then to the great half-a-crown ordinary, at the King's Head, near Charing Cross, where we had a most excellent neat dinner and very high company, and in a noble manner. After dinner he and I into another room over a pot of ale and talked.
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