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"Half a sovereign!" repeated his father; "what do you want of half a sovereign?" A sovereign is the common gold coin of England. The value of it is a pound, or nearly five dollars; and half a sovereign is, of course, in value about equal to two dollars and a half of American money. "I want to get a ticket," said Hilbert.
As he approached Hilbert, he touched his hat, and then said, in a very respectful tone, "Beg pardon, sir. Is this Master Holiday?" "Rollo, do you mean?" said Hilbert. "No. Rollo went ashore last night with the bearer of despatches." Hilbert knew that this was the arrangement which had been made, and he supposed that it had been carried into effect.
If they are not willing to do this, but insist on skipping the first part of the chapter, I advise them to make complete work of it, and skip the last half too; for they certainly will not understand it. When Hilbert went back to the paddle box with his half sovereign, it was about eleven o'clock.
If there had been a threat of war things could hardly have been worse. The worst of it was that none of the big sellers seemed disposed to give their reasons for unloading. Mr. Hilbert Torrington, when asked why he had sold huge quantities of oil shares, courteously replied to all and various that he had no observations to make.
"You have got them hid behind you," said Hilbert, again addressing Hargo. "No," said he. "See." So saying, he turned round and let Hilbert see that the bow and arrow were not behind him. "Well, you took them away from me, at any rate," said Hilbert; and saying this, he turned away and walked off, seemingly very angry. He was going to complain to his father.
The ticket that Hilbert drew was marked 67. It denoted, of course, the number 267; and that, being pretty near to the number of miles which it was thought the ship would probably make, was considered quite a valuable ticket.
Chauncy; "and that is the very reason I like my ticket. If I had yours, I should be afraid I might get the prize." "Afraid?" repeated Hilbert. "Yes," said Mr. Chauncy. "Why should you be afraid?" asked Hilbert, much surprised. "Because," said Mr. Chauncy, "I should not know what to do with the money. I would not put it in my purse; for I don't let any thing go in there but honest money.
As the ship was advancing through the water all this time with tremendous speed, the paddle struck both the bow and the arrow the instant after they touched the water, and broke them both into pieces. The fragments came out behind, and floated off unseen in the foam which drifted away in a long line in the wake of the steamer. Hilbert was perfectly confounded.
Hilbert was very anxious to get on shore, and so he had got his trunk up, and was all ready on the deck half an hour before the steamer came. This was Mr. Holiday's servant. His name was Alfred. When Mr.
Rollo himself was upon one of the settees. Just then one of the outer doors opened, and a man came in. He was an officer of the ship. A terrible gust of wind came in with him. The officer closed the door again immediately, and seeing the boys, he said to them, "Well, boys, you are pretty good sailors, to be about the ship such weather as this." "I'm going up on the promenade deck," said Hilbert.
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