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Cecilia contemplated it with delight. "How I should like to give this to Louisa!" said she to herself; and, at last, breaking silence, "Did you promise it to the old lady?" "Oh, no, miss, I didn't promise it she never saw it; and if so be that you'd like to take it, I'd make no more words about it." "And how much does it cost?" "Why, miss, as to that, I'll let you have it for half-a-guinea."
The price was half-a-guinea. And there is certainly no copy in the School library. The thing is a mystery. 'A mystery that must be solved, said the Headmaster. 'The fact remains that he did see the book, and it is very serious. Wholesale plagiarism of this description should be kept for the School magazine. It should not be allowed to spread to poetry prizes.
"I take care of pretty nearly everything round about here, for the bos doesn't do much now, but he gives a reg'lar 'go at it' now and then though." "I suppose you like this job," remarked Frank, meanwhile scanning the horse and forming his opinion of this member of the equine genus. Here is his judgment: "A famous trotter! a spirited steed! indeed! an old nag not worth half-a-guinea."
"The half-guinea?" repeated Holloway: "man, you talk of the half-guinea as if there was but one half-guinea in the world: you shall have the half-guinea, for I hate to be dunned Stay, I believe I have no half-a-guinea about me: you can't give me two half-guineas for a guinea, can ye?" "Me!" "Well, then, you must wait till I can get change."
I have often said to a cook, 'Your character is satisfactory enough in other respects; but, before engaging you, will you show what you can do by sending up one good dinner, for which I will pay you at the ordinary rate namely, half-a-guinea? She won't do it; she says she can cook for a prince, and affects to be hurt at the proposition.
Ben walked up between the forms, and introduced me to the schoolmaster, whose name was Mr Thadeus O'Gallagher, a poor scholar from Ireland, who had set up an establishment at half-a-guinea a quarter for day scholars; he was reckoned a very severe master, and the children were kept in better order in his school than in any other establishment of the kind in the town; and I presume that my granny had made inquiries to that effect, as there were one or two schools of the same kind much nearer to my mother's house.
Kent, sir everybody knows Kent apples, cherries, hops, and women. Glass of wine, Sir! 'With great pleasure, replied Mr. Tupman. The stranger filled, and emptied. 'I should very much like to go, said Mr. Tupman, resuming the subject of the ball, 'very much. 'Tickets at the bar, Sir, interposed the waiter; 'half-a-guinea each, Sir. Mr.
The victory was so quick, and so constantly alternate, that the stake, in a short time, amounted to no less a sum than 12 pounds, Harley's proportion of which was within half-a-guinea of the money he had in his pocket. He had before proposed a division, but the old gentleman opposed it with such a pleasant warmth in his manner, that it was always over-ruled.
The book is I think a true picture of the latter end of the life and court of that weak wretch Louis XV., not overcharged, and so many of the facts being incontestable, you may take the whole story for a true one, no one part being more improbable than another. Will you have it sent? It is dear, half-a-guinea; un recit trop graveleux pour etre recommande aux dames.
My only capital was the change for half-a-guinea, which he had once let fall, and which I picked up, which was all I could ever get from him: for it was impossible to stale any money from him, he was so awake, being up to all the tricks of thaives, having followed the diving trade, as he called it, for a considerable time.
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