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'Tell Mother Manikin not to come home in daylight, called the giant, as Rosalie was disappearing through the canvas. 'No, no, said the three dwarfs; 'not in daylight! 'Why not? said Rosalie. 'Our pennies, said the giant mysteriously. 'Yes, our pennies and halfpennies for seeing the show, repeated the dwarfs; 'we must not make ourselves too cheap. 'Good-night, child, said the giant.
I was still more delighted than my father with Uncle Jack. He was full of amusing tricks, could conjure wonderfully, make a bunch of keys dance a hornpipe, and if ever you gave him half-a-crown, he was sure to turn it into a halfpenny. He was only unsuccessful in turning my halfpennies into half-crowns.
He grew suddenly cynical. His age leaped to fifty or so, and the curve of his lips changed. Ruth, spying around, saw him and ran to him with a glad cry. "Here!" she said, "take these. They're no good." She held out her hands. "What are they?" he asked. "They're the halfpennies." "So sorry!" he said, with an accent whose significance escaped her, and took the useless coins.
The other, quite apart from small advantages to be gained owing to the ever-shifting prices of his wares, is ceaselessly engaged in dispensing trifles, on each of which he makes a small gain. The grocery business commends itself warmly to the French genius for garnering halfpennies. Nowhere on earth, I fancy, will you see butter more meticulously weighed than here.
It seemed to her to grow bigger and bigger as the darkness deepened, and its green eyes glared as large as halfpennies in her affrighted vision as the thunder came booming along the heights from the Willarden-road.
It was an enormous sum to the tenement bairn, whose half-blind grandmither knitted and knitted in a dimly lighted room, and hoarded halfpennies and farthings to save herself from pauper burial. Seven shullings would pay a month's rent for any one of the crowded rooms in which a family lived.
It's all ready see this is one of my shillings, and a sixpence and three pennies of Tom's, and Racey's fourpenny and two of his halfpennies. The way we planned it was a shilling for the sponge cakes and buns, and a shilling for biscuits, and two pennies for two muffins. It makes two shillings and two pennies just doesn't it?
Failing them if disappointingly in evidence on every side was the integrity and the honour for which Mr. Bitt raved and bawled when in the thick of splashing a muddy pool, then, argued Mr. Bitt, catch hold of something trivial and splash it, flog it, placard it, into a sensational and semi-mysterious bait that would set the halfpennies rising like trout in an evening stream.
Irene smiled. "Don't you, Cousin Jolyon? I think you do." "Of course, I'm a bit of a mongrel not quite a pure Forsyte. I never take the halfpennies off my cheques, I put them on," said Jolyon uneasily. "Well, what does Soames want in place of me now?" "I don't know; perhaps children." She was silent for a little, looking down. "Yes," she murmured; "it's hard.
'But I think I have some money, and putting his hand into his pocket he produced two halfpennies and gave one to each of the children, who immediately went in to buy the toffee and the prize packet, and when they came out he walked along with them, as they were going in the same direction as he was: indeed, they would have to pass by his house.
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