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At one time a rug of this description was cheap enough perhaps as much as two sovereigns but the great demand for them by diggers, &c., has made them much more scarce, and it now requires a ten pound-note to get a good one. The best come from Van Diemen's Land. In summer they are disagreeable, as they harbour insects.
But nothing was farther from Annie's intention than finding the place would not suit her: no change could she dream of before at least she had a pound-note in her hand, when at once she would make it clear to her mother what a terrible scare had driven her to the sudden step she had taken.
On the present occasion he regretted, no doubt, the loss of the money, but we are bound to say, that he would have given its amount fifteen times repeated, to get once more into his hands the single pound-note of which he had treacherously and like a coward robbed Fenton while asleep in the carriage.
He listened patiently, with dancing eyes, to the story, smiled across at the duchess, gave the man a pound-note and a jolly good talking to, and acquired a bull pup with the Rodney Stone strain, which they promptly christened Wellington, as it had won at Waterloo. Wellington forthwith developed an inordinate jealousy of Jane Coop.
"You'll excuse me," says the Pope, pocketing his money, "for we put the clock half an hour back, out ov compliment to your Riv'rence," says he, "and it was Sathurday morning afore he came up at all." "Well, it's no matther," says his Riv'rence, putting back his pound-note in his pocket-book.
"There's a pound-note for you," said Purcel, flinging it across the table. "If you take that, you may, but if not, I'll give no more. Your worship, this, you perceive, is cross-case, and if you receive examination on the one side, you will, of course, upon the other?" "True," replied O'Driscol, who had not thought of this, and who seized upon it as a perfect relief to him; "true, Mr.
When it was done, the Squire first addressed a few scathing words to the pair of park-keepers, who smoked imperturbably through them, and then transferred a pound-note to the ready palm of Gregson, who was, it seemed, on the point of accepting work as a stock-keeper from another of the Squire's farmers a brother culprit, only less 'hustled' than himself by the formidable County Committee, which was rapidly putting the fear of God into every bad husbandman throughout Brookshire.
'He wins one night; loses every pound-note he has the next; and comes vaunting the "dry still Sillery" of the establishment, a perpetual chorus to his losses! 'His consolation to you for yours. That is the gentleman. Chummy doesn't change. Say, why not St. Ombre? He's cool. 'There are reasons. 'Let them rest. And I have my reasons. Do the same for them.
'He wins one night; loses every pound-note he has the next; and comes vaunting the "dry still Sillery" of the establishment, a perpetual chorus to his losses! 'His consolation to you for yours. That is the gentleman. Chummy doesn't change. Say, why not St. Ombre? He's cool. 'There are reasons. 'Let them rest. And I have my reasons. Do the same for them.
I would have given a pound-note today to have had five shillings about me; and sorra testher I had in my company." "You must have been pretty closely pressed for cash, when you would have given such a premium."
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