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These cheerful and, maybe, unjust reflections are perhaps in consequence of our having lost half a sovereign to start with. We also had a few things in a portmanteau and two blankets in a three-bushel bag, but they didn't amount to much. The clerk put down the ticket with the half-sovereign on top of it, and we wrapped the latter in the former and ran for the wharf.
He didn't notice that I was after it too. So I drew back. I thought I'd wait and see what happens." "He looks as if he could do with half-a-sovereign," said Mr Gale. "Yes; he's only a station loafer." "Then why doesn't he pick up his half-sovereign and hook it?" "Can't you see why?" said Mr Sandbach, patronizingly. "He's afraid of the bookstall clerk catching him at it.
One was, to buy a present for Popsey, the little girl with the pitcher of milk; and the other was, to call on Mother Manikin to see if Betsey Ann had arrived. The two children had each had a half-sovereign given them by Mr. Leslie; and Rosalie wished to spend hers in something very nice for little Popsey. But the difficulty was to choose what it should be.
A lad, well known in these parts as "Lushy Dick," was, it appeared, charging the tobacconist with cheating him; he alleged that he had deposited half a sovereign on the counter in payment for a cigar, and the shopman had given him change as if for sixpence, maintaining stoutly that sixpence had been the coin given him, and no half-sovereign at all. When Mr.
"Oh, how sweet and pretty!" she cried, with artificial cordiality. "Just a ring of gold with a coin attached. May I look?" And without waiting for permission she ran to the lamp. The coin was a half-sovereign of Edward VII., with three stones a diamond, an amethyst, and a pearl set in a triangle. A thin ring of gold attached it to the bangle. Daisy was not ill pleased that the gift was so simple.
"Let's have two caps and aprons, then," said Jane Foley smoothly. "We'll pay the shilling fine." She laughed lightly. "And a bit more. If the police get in here we shall have to struggle, you know, and they'll break the place up." Audrey produced another half-sovereign. "But what shall ye do with yer hats and coats?" the woman demanded. "Give them to you, of course."
The second man was a long, dried-up creature, with lank hair and sallow cheeks. His name was Hugh Pattins. He also received his dismissal, his half-sovereign, and the order to wait. The third applicant was a man of remarkable appearance. A fierce bull-dog face was framed in a tangle of hair and beard, and two bold, dark eyes gleamed behind the cover of thick, tufted, overhung eyebrows.
It ain't no case of cheating-only the lass here she's skeered like, and it's right as she should have her way. Wed us to-night, ef you can, parson," continued Will, and he laid a sovereign and a half-sovereign on the little study table. "Kneel down, Will," said Bet. "He'll say the good words over us I know he will, and we don't want to cheat. It's only as we mustn't be parted. Kneel down, Will."
"'Ere, please sir, I wants to see yer," she gasped, out of breath, choking a little with unwonted exertion. Christopher went back to her and waited gravely. She opened her hand and the half-sovereign glinted again in the light. "Expect yer made a mistake, didn't yer, sir?" she asked in a hoarse whisper, and saw a wave of hot colour under his brown skin.
The sight of another half-sovereign had rendered him more than polite, and, without saying a word, he let them all out together. The moment they were in the street, Hamar turned on Kelson, white with passion. "So," he said, "I was right after all liar! fool! You would risk all our lives for a few hours' flirtation with this silly girl." "If it's only flirtation, Leon, what does it matter?"
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