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Updated: June 21, 2025
Presently Odinzoff went outside, carrying with him two boards upon which the menu of the "Eight-penny Luncheon! This Day!" was written in scrawly characters, and proceeded to affix them to the shop-front. This was my opportunity, and quick as thought I moved towards where the unhealthy youth was at work, and whispered: "I'll give you half-a-sovereign if you'll answer my questions truthfully.
"The Lord preserve you, man, it will never do for you to go and starve yourself to death," he exclaims, feeling in his pocket. This causes a feeling of shame to awake in me, and I stagger over to the wall and hold on to it. I see him finger in his purse, and he hands me half-a-sovereign.
'Will you lend me half-a-sovereign? Vera reiterated, in the same glacial tone, not caring twopence for the presence of Felix. And Stephen, by means of an interminable silver chain, drew his sovereign-case from the profundity of his hip-pocket; it was like drawing a bucket out of a well. And he gave Vera half-a-sovereign; and THAT was like knotting the rope for his own execution.
Here's your wretched ten shillings, for which you'd sell all the corpses in Raxton churchyard. And I gave him half-a-sovereign, feeling, somehow, that I was doing honour to Winifred. 'Thankee for the money, Mister Hal, anyhow, said the old creature. 'You was allus a liberal 'un, you was.
I sank, simply sank, on all sides every way I turned; sank to my knees, sank to my waist, dived under in ignominy, never to rise again never! This was the climax! To accept half-a-sovereign in alms without being able to fling it back to the secret donor; scramble for half-pence whenever the chance offered, and keep them, use them for lodging money, in spite of one's intense inner aversion....
My story was accepted had been set in type immediately, straight off! A few slight alterations.... A couple of errors in writing amended.... Worked out with talent ... be printed tomorrow ... half-a-sovereign. I laughed and cried, took to jumping and running down the street, stopped, slapped my thighs, swore loudly and solemnly into space at nothing in particular. And time went.
Johnson pretends, till eleven o'clock, to believe it. And we pay prices, varying from a shilling to half-a-sovereign, to sit for two hours and listen to them. But as I explained at the beginning, my friend is a mad sort of person. I am glad I am not an American husband. At first sight this may appear a remark uncomplimentary to the American wife. It is nothing of the sort.
For there was no sign of half-a-sovereign under the feet of the shabby man. There was not even nine and elevenpence there. Mr Gale looked up very angry and Mr Sandbach looked very foolish. "This is all very well," Mr Gale exploded in tones low and fierce. "But I call it a swindle."
Something like three pounds that still remained to him he would not reckon; this must be for casualties. Half-a-sovereign was enough for his needs; in the old times he had counted it a competency which put his mind quite at rest. The day came, and he entered upon his duties in City Road.
Do you happen to know if anybody occupies the compartment in which the body was found?" "A lady and gentleman, sir; I put 'em in myself, sir." "Would you further oblige me," said the detective, deftly slipping half-a-sovereign into the hand of the guard, "by going to the window and informing them in an offhand casual sort of way that the tragedy took place in that compartment?" "Certainly, sir."
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