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Updated: June 27, 2025
'I'll lay a guinea Pacey doesn't hold money, exclaimed Guano. 'Done! exclaimed Parson Blossomnose. 'I'll bet it does, observed Charley Slapp. 'I'll take you, replied Mr. Miller. Then the hubbub of betting commenced, and raged with fury for a short time; some betting sovereigns, some half-sovereigns, other half-crowns and shillings, as to whether the hands of one or both held money.
All the boldness she had shown at the Spotted Deer had vanished. She was now the mere trembling and guilty woman. The lock on Bolderfield's box had been forced long before; it opened to her hand. A heap of sovereigns and half-sovereigns lay on one side, divided by a wooden partition from the few silver coins, crowns and half-crowns, still lying on the other.
These, of course, were hastily picked up from the path whereon they had first fallen, were counted out at home, and the glittering contents of most of those little leather bags ripped up were immediately discovered. Oh dear! oh dear! such a sight! Guineas and half-guineas, sovereigns and half-sovereigns, quite a little hill of bright, clean, prettily-figured gold.
"Will you lay the price, William twenty-five half-sovereigns to one?" "Yes, I'll lay it." Ginger took a half-sovereign from his pocket and handed it to the bookmaker. "I never take money over this bar. You're good for a thin 'un, sir," William said, with a smile, as he handed back the money. "But I don't know when I shall see you again," said Ginger. "It will be very inconvenient.
He could still feel tingling through him the passionate joy with which he had counted out the recovered sovereigns, with the extra three half-sovereigns of interest. Muster Drew indeed! John fell into an angry inward argument against his suggestion of the savings bank.
He shortly afterwards made quite a liberal remittance to his wife, and his troopers pushed Kruger half-sovereigns across most of the bars in Gueldersdorp shortly after the purchase by a Dopper farmer of a teak-built Cape waggon that a particular friend of the sergeant's had got to sell. And they were careful, at first, not to wag loose tongues.
They want what they want, and not something which seems to them less desirable, but they open their purses and frequently with some amused uncertainty as to the differences between sovereigns and half-sovereigns, florins and half-crowns they pay their bills with something almost like glee.
William hesitated, and then said he'd take ten half-sovereigns to one against Silver Braid. "Ten half-sovereigns to one?" said old Watkins. William murmured "Yes," and Joey booked the bet. Mr. Leopold's business demanded more consideration.
And at the bottom of the bag was a great loose handful of gold, all in bright sovereigns and half-sovereigns, fresh from the Mint. I estimated this little mass of coined gold at three hundred pounds; but just as I was in the act of counting it, the ring of a bell in violent motion tingled through the midnight silence of the house, and I paused.
Hulloa! what is this?" and Crawley changed countenance as he opened a portmonnaie which he took out of the box, and drew from it a five-pound note. "I have been robbed!" he cried. "There were four half-sovereigns, two sovereigns, and twelve shillings in silver, besides this bank-note in the purse this morning, and now there is only the five-pound note here!"
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