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Updated: June 21, 2025
"These asses won't take half-a-sovereign to lend a hand." "Imbeciles! But the stay must be welded." "Well, we'll pretend we can do without 'em. I daresay that will bring them round." For a few minutes the two men made a great show of activity, completely disregarding the crowd curiously watching them. The plan had the desired effect.
Wilson whined for another quarter of an hour in complete security from cross-examination. In the end Lilian brought out her purse and took from it half-a-sovereign. "Now, if I give you this, Mrs. Wilson, I do hope to have a better account"
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.
Finn; only you must bring a little money with you for the Female Protestant Unmarried Women's Emigration Society. That is my aunt's present hobby, as Lord Fawn knows to his cost." "I wish I may never spend half-a-sovereign worse." "But it is a perilous affair for me, as my aunt wants me to go out as a sort of leading Protestant unmarried female emigrant pioneer myself."
Here, I'm going to take half-a-sovereign out of the grocery division. You must take this half-sovereign to Watson's, and pay for the things. I have not an idea how much they cost, but I expect you'll have a good lot of change to give me. After that, you are to go on to the butcher's, and buy four pounds of beef-steak. Here is another half-sovereign that you will have to pay the butcher out of.
It could never enter any one's head to chaffer about five shillings; on the contrary, getting it for half-a-sovereign might be considered dirt-cheap, considering the quality of the thing. I had no intention of turning off such special work gratis. As far as I was aware, one did not pick up stories of that kind on the wayside, and I decided on half-a-sovereign. The room brightened and brightened.
Even my father does not dare to give her half-a-sovereign for pocket-money; but do ask your mother if she could not be made such that those girls should not make her their laughingstock. 'You don't mean it! 'Aye, I do; and she has not even told James, lest he should wish to spend more upon her. She glories in it, but that is hardly wholesome. 'Then she told you? 'Oh, yes!
Suppose you start in the morning with a good sovereign and a 'snyde' half-sovereign in your pocket; you go into some place or other, and ask for change of the sovereign, or you order some beer and give the sovereign in payment; it's likely you will get half-a-sovereign and silver back in change.
As I did so the musical voice beside me murmured "The game is waiting: are you going to stake this time?" I stammered out a negative. "What? already tired? A faint heart should not go with such a face," and again she swept the pointer round. "Is it," she whispered in my ear, "is it that you cannot?" "It is." "Ah, it is hard with half-a-sovereign to break the bank.
The tent scene is confessedly worth half-a-sovereign, and so you have the fight in, gratis, and everybody knows what an effect may be produced by a good combat. One—two—three—four—over; then, one—two—three—four—under; then thrust; then dodge and slide about; then fall down on one knee; then fight upon it, and then get up again and stagger.
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