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"Well, how is my decoy duck, and has he sent in his resignation?" said the old man, as he came in a little later and found writing material and pennies on the table, and the boy lying on the lounge looking pale and sick. "What is this? Sick the first time you have to resign an office? That won't do.
Such treasures were reserved for the family of Dives; and counting her pennies, Beryl entered the store, where instantaneously the blended breath of heliotrope, tube-rose and mignonette wafted her across the ocean, to a white-walled fishing village on the Cornice, whose gray rocks were kissed by the blue lips of the Mediterranean. "What is the price of that cluster of Niphetos buds?"
He disputed his reckonings like a man who must needs count the pennies, and no one suspected the sturdy wayfarer of carrying a fortune around his body. As his face turned toward the North his thought went to the Border town where he had spent his childhood. His father and mother were dead, and he doubted now if anyone there remembered him, or would have a welcome for him.
'You've plenty of pennies now, she said soothingly. 'I shall never have enough, he began, with vicious emphasis. Then, laughing, 'I shall always be three-pence short in my accounts. 'Why threepence? 'I carried a man's bag once from Liverpool Street Station to Blackfriar's Bridge. It was a sixpenny job, you needn't laugh; indeed it was, and I wanted the money desperately.
Before the hour of ten the younger lay down on the flinty floor, with his heavy blanket gathered around him, and sank into slumber. They had matched pennies for the first turn, else the elder would not have claimed it. Jack found his duty similar in many respects to that of his first night on the prairie, but the surroundings and circumstances were in wide contrast.
Brilliana asked, with a fine show of heat, and Halfman nodded his head as much as to say, "Ay, ay, answer me that, if you can." Master Peter strove to answer, lamely enough. "Poor in pennies, lady, poorer in shillings, poorest in guineas. I may own half the country-side and have no coin to clink against the other." Brilliana scoffed at his protest.
In it marched young men and boys with swords and battle-axes, and upon its outskirts skipped a host of young roughs so one would have called them but for the evidence of their honest employment who rattled collection boxes, reaping a harvest of pennies from far and near. I looked at the battle-axes and the collection boxes, and thought of forty years ago.
"Be careful where you walk and don't stump your toes. Those shoes look pretty well still. Miss Dorcas crosses bridges sometimes before she comes to them. Why, there's Albert Naumann. Good-afternoon, Albert. Have you any pennies for the saving bank to-day?" "No, madam, lady," answered Albert. "I have no time for to earn the pennies to-day. I have for to pick up the coal for mine Mutter.
"An' why should you be after botherin' us with your health ordinances two poor girls that has a chance to turn a few pennies, with pork so dear? 'Look at all that good swill goin' to waste, says I to Katie here. 'An' who's to care if I do boil some extra praties now an' then? Mr. Bauer's that rich, ain't he?
And here sat Grandpa blowing his nose, and as for his mother Sunny Boy looked at her and her eyes were quite brimming over. "Don't you like me to?" he cried. "I was going to buy another drum, but Grandpa can have the money. It's a pink pig, Grandpa, and you shake it an' the pennies drop out. Harriet gave it to me." Sunny Boy's lip began to quiver. "My dear little son!"
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