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Updated: May 11, 2025
"I stole you for beer money, an' when I saw you there on the beach that night I knew you'd bring ten quid anywheres. Ten quid's a horrible lot of money. Fifty dollars in the way the Yankees reckon it, an' a hundred Mex in China fashion. "Now, fifty dollars gold 'd buy beer to beat the band enough to drown me if I fell in head first. Yet I want to ask you one question.
I'll kill that cur I'll choke the life out of him. Cabby, if you get to the Junction by a quarter to five I'll give you a quid." "The quid's as good as mine, sir," cabby said, cheerfully. "Get along, lass." Meanwhile Chris had returned thoughtfully to the dog-cart, musing over the last discovery. She felt quite satisfied with her afternoon's work. Then a new idea struck her.
''Orrible hand-to-hand struggle with a desperado. Brave constable has 'arf a quid's worth out of an infuriated ruffian! My hat! won't your missis be proud when you take her to see that bloomin' film?" "Move on, now, move on!" said Collins, recovering his dignity and asserting it with a vim. "Look here, cabby, I don't take it kind of you to laugh like that; they had you just as bad as they had me.
Look here, you shall pay me six bob a week till the thirty quid's made up. Now, you can do that?" Yes I could do that, and I agreed. In another ten minutes our business was settled, my signature was so shaky that I might safely have disowned it afterwards. Then we had a drink at a neighbouring pub, and we walked together towards Coventry Street.
A few hours after Quid's death, the body emitted certain effluvia denoting the necessity of immediate interment.
Coming up the Cemetery road, the Tertium Quid's horse tried to bolt uphill, being tired with standing so long, and managed to strain a back sinew. 'I shall have to take the mare to-morrow, said the Tertium Quid, 'and she will stand nothing heavier than a snaffle. They made their arrangements to meet in the Cemetery, after allowing all the Mashobra people time to pass into Simla.
''Orrible hand-to-hand struggle with a desperado. Brave constable has 'arf a quid's worth out of an infuriated ruffin! My hat! won't your missis be proud when you take her to see that bloomin' film?" "Move on, now, move on!" said Collins, recovering his dignity, and asserting it with a vim. "Look here, cabby, I don't take it kind of you to laugh like that; they had you just as bad as they had me.
"Well, a quid's no good to a man wi' a wife an' family," replied the old woman. "Wot do yer reckon on doin'?" She knew that her judgment of Jonah was being put to the test, and she remarked his gloomy face with satisfaction. "I'm goin' ter chuck Dutchy, if I can git a job," said Jonah. "I went round ter Bob Watkins, but 'e's in the 'orspital, an' 'is wife's sellin' 'is tools."
A few hours after Quid's death, the body emitted certain effluvia denoting the necessity of immediate interment.
It said that, perhaps, she had not thought of the unwisdom of allowing her name to be so generally coupled with the Tertium Quid's; that she was too much of a child to understand the dangers of that sort of thing; that he, her husband, was the last man in the world to interfere jealously with her little amusements and interests, but that it would be better were she to drop the Tertium Quid quietly and for her husband's sake.
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