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If you don't like the pris'n, I have a nice little room o' my own, sir, where you can wait, for a small consideration, until you get bail." "I'll go there, then," said Tom. "Go through as private streets as you can." "Give me half-a-guinea for my trouble, sir, and I'll ambulate you through lanes every fut o' the way." "Very well," said Tom.
Besides, it will save thee half-a-guinea, my lad a consideration which I heartily pray you to have more frequently before your eyes."
Bragwell took up the cudgels for the doctor, and undertook to rid him of her importunity for half-a-guinea; upon which Wagtail, with great eagerness, pulled out his purse, and put it into the hand of his friend, who, taking half a piece out of it, gave it to the plaintiff, and bade her thank God for her good fortune.
She does a power of good; she gave me half-a-guinea, your honour; an excellent young lady, so sensible like!" "Thank you; I can tighten the girths! so! there, Bunting, there's something for old companion's sake." "Thank your honour; you be too good, always was baugh! But I hopes your honour be a coming to live here now; 'twill make things smile agin!"
He had put his hand in his pocket and found half-a-guinea, and, thrusting it into Silas's hand, he hurried out of the cottage to overtake Mr. Kimble. "Ah, I see it's not the same woman I saw," he said, as he came up. "It's a pretty little child: the old fellow seems to want to keep it; that's strange for a miser like him.
For the remainder of that day, poor George was in a regular whirl of excitement. A thousand schemes were afloat in his mind about the future, of the most improbable kind. His income of half-a-guinea a week was to do wonders, which were never accomplished by half a score of guineas.
But the chief himself would have nothing to do with king-making, declaring himself for that monarch, and no other, who gave the Laird of Mac 'half-a-guinea the day and half-a-guinea the morn.
Holloway threw down half-a-guinea, to pay Oliver, and muttered to himself, "I'll make you remember this, Mr. Oliver." "I'll give this half-guinea to the mulatto woman, and that's much better than putting it into a lottery, Charles," said the little boy; and, as soon as the business of the day was done, Oliver, Howard, and Mr. Russell, took their usual evening's walk towards the gardener's house.
Here are six bottles of wine to Mrs Natly, the railway porter's wife, at three-and-six one pound one not provided for in your estimate. Any more physic, I wonder? H'm, subscription for coals to the poor. Half-a-guinea no head for charities in your estimate, I suppose?"
"Here," said she, "a man is working and drudging all the days of his life to get a decent coat to put on, and a bit of bread to put into his child's mouth; and, after all, may be he can't do it; though all the while, for five guineas, or a guinea, or half-a-guinea even, if he has but the spirit to lay out his money properly, he has the chance of making a fortune without any trouble.
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