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Since then they had lived with Chook's mother, as he had no money to furnish; but last month Chook had joined a syndicate of three to buy a five-shilling sweep ticket, which, to their amazement, drew a hundred-pound prize. With Chook's share they had decided to take Jack Ryan's shop in Pitt Street just round the corner from Cardigan Street.
They were rough, simple men, crude and elemental like their labor. It was elemental work filling a house with ice, three hundred-pound cakes of clean, clear ice, cut from the pond, skidded into the pungs, and hauled through the woods all white, and under a sky all gray, with softly-falling snow.
At the pass, most of the travel came upon one track, and that so steep the ascent could be made only by cutting steps in the ice and snow fifteen hundred steps in all. Frequently every step would be full, while crowds jostled each other at the foot of the ascent to get into the single file, each man carrying a hundred-pound pack on his back.
Even before he'd struck the floor he knew there'd been a horrible mistake somewhere, for he felt a tug as if he'd hooked a hundred-pound catfish. There was an awful ripping and tearing sound, something fetched loose, and his wife was sitting up in bed blinking at him in the moonlight.
"The historic diamonds, the matchless pearls, the never-equaled rubies all the choicest have been abstracted, and by a skillful hand!" "Go, then!" cried Willoughby. "Seal this in your breast! Speak to no one or you'll die in jail, wearing irons! Here!" A hundred-pound note was thrust into his hand, and he was whirled away to his shop. "Ah! The gray devil! he has stolen and hidden the best!
In time he persuaded the Bishop of Norwich to admit Crabbe, in spite of his want of a regular qualification, to holy orders. He then commended him to the notice of Lord Chancellor Thurlow. Crabbe found the Tiger less formidable than his terrifying reputation, for Thurlow at their first interview presented him with a hundred-pound note, and afterwards gave him a living.
He has to bear the responsibility of everything, and people can't dance lightly with hundred-pound weights on their legs. Nobody has a better heart, and nobody means more honestly. How the traders at the fair praised his caution! In the storm people know the pilot, and Peter was always greatest, when things were going worst.
"There's the address of my native banker; and as trusty a Hindu as ever sold a two-shilling strass imitation for a hundred-pound star sapphire. But, in his way he is honest as we all are." And then Alan Hawke boldly said: "How shall I address you at Allahabad?" The flashing brown eyes gleamed a moment with a brighter luster than pleasure's glow.
We'd better make me about a hundred-pound war bow, too...." "A hundred!" interrupted Nadia. "That's a lot of bow, big boy think you can bend it?" "You'd be surprised," he grinned. "I'm not quite like Robin Hood I've been known to miss a finger-thick wand at a hundred paces but I'm not exactly a beginner."
He disclosed that Hogarth, beyond doubt, kept a few diamonds in a goat-hair trunk in his room enough to make two ordinary fortunes, and also carried two or three, with some hundred-pound notes on his person; and this was made the basis of a scheme for bringing about the arrest of Hogarth, the first step being to get from Hogarth the sum he carried about him, leaving him in a situation where he would find himself powerless to bribe.
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