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Glossin: with them he was bare Glossin; and so incredibly was his vanity interested by this trifling circumstance, that he was known to give half-a-crown to a beggar because he had thrice called him Ellangowan in beseeching him for a penny. He therefore felt acutely the general want of respect, and particularly when he contrasted his own character and reception in society with those of Mr.
Chitling, with a very long face, as he drew half-a-crown from his waistcoat-pocket. 'I never see such a feller as you, Jack; you win everything. Even when we've good cards, Charley and I can't make nothing of 'em.
"And now the old man says he will not need our half-a-crown a week any longer " "So we can give it to old Mrs. Wimple, his neighbour " "A great sufferer, you know, and oh, so patient." "Really!" said Claudia, a little confused by this antiphonal kind of narrative. "Yes," continued Aunt Jane, "and I see a letter has come in for you from home, I think. So this has been quite an eventful morning."
He was generally satisfied with taking the value of ninepence from a guinea, of eighteenpence from a jacobus or moidore, or half-a-crown from a broad Spanish piece, whether he reduced them by aquafortis, filing, or clipping.
I had wrought nane to speak o' for ten years before, and my hands were quite oot o' use. I made but a puir job o' it. The first week I didna mak aboon half-a-crown; and that was but a sma' sum for the support o' a wife and half-a-dozen hungry bairns. Hooever, I was still as simple as ever; and there wasna a wife in the countryside that was a bad payer, but brought her web to Nicholas Middlemiss.
He said, "Perhaps some of them might prove to be so, sir, under certain circumstances. I am a poor man, sir." "Come, come," said Hanky; and he slipped a sum equal to about half-a-crown into my father's hand. "I do not know what you mean, sir," said my father, "and if I did, half-a- crown would not be nearly enough." "Hanky," said Panky, "you must get this fellow to give you lessons."
I found a good conveyance at the farm, and the man promised to drive me in to Gorice by dinner-time. I gave him half-a-crown as an earnest, and went away, telling him to come for me. I returned to the count's and had scarcely finished getting ready when the conveyance drove up. I was about to put my luggage in it, when a servant came from the count asking me to give him a moment's conversation.
He did, however, so far begin his better life as to declare that the points at whist must be low, shilling points, with half-a-crown on the rubber. "Quite enough for this kind of thing," said Fred Pepper. "We only want just something to do." And Ralph, when at the end of the week he had lost only a matter of fifteen pounds, congratulated himself on having begun his better life.
When you have to attend to things of that sort, to the mere incidents of the surface, the reality the reality, I tell you fades. The inner truth is hidden luckily, luckily. But I felt it all the same; I felt often its mysterious stillness watching me at my monkey tricks, just as it watches you fellows performing on your respective tight-ropes for what is it? half-a-crown a tumble "
Cook's in one of her tempers to-day, just because I was anxious for things to go without a hitch, for Auntie. There's a piece of salmon, at half-a-crown a pound, bought because Auntie would think just nothing of the price, and is all the year round accustomed to salmon; cook is certain to send it in bleeding or to boil it to a rag.
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