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I thought you were at the club." "I told you I should go to the Treasury. I have been there all morning with the chancellor," when Sir Raffle spoke officially of the chancellor he was not supposed to mean the Lord Chancellor "and here I find letters which I particularly wanted lying upon my desk now. I must put an end to this kind of thing. I must, indeed.
Consequently the advertisement was withdrawn at a dead loss for as to sherry, my poor dear mother's own sherry was in the market then and ten years afterwards, the caul was put up in a raffle down in our part of the country, to fifty members at half-a-crown a head, the winner to spend five shillings.
Forthwith the conductors of the enterprise conclude that they will raffle for some of the valuable articles, and, under pretence of anxiety to make their minister a present, or please some popular member of the church, fascinating persons are despatched through the room, pencil in hand, to "solicit" shares; or perhaps each draws for his own advantage, and scores of people go home with their trophies, thinking that all is right, for Christian ladies did the embroidery, and Christian men did the raffling, and the proceeds went towards a new communion set.
"No one will want to buy this rubbish," said Miss Coppinger, who never tried to deceive even herself, "but people will have to spend their money on something, and we're not going to raffle bottles of brandy as they did at that R.C. Bazaar in Riverstown!" Frederica could be just, but when a question of religion intervened, she found it hard to be generous.
He stretched himself on the sofa, and smoked and spat on the floor and played the concertina an old one he won in a raffle. Dan did n't go near the plough any more. He stayed inside every day, and drank the yeast, and provided music for the women.
"Wish you joy, Crosbie," said Sir Raffle, standing up on the rug, waiting for the new secretary to go up to him and shake hands. But Sir Raffle was going, and the new secretary did not indulge him. "Thank ye, Sir Raffle," said Crosbie, without going near the rug. "Mr Crosbie, I congratulate you most sincerely," said Mr Optimist. "Your promotion has been the result altogether of your own merit.
Audubon reached Natchez on March 24, 1822, and remained there and in the vicinity till the spring of 1823, teaching drawing and French to private pupils and in the college at Washington, nine miles distant, hunting, and painting the birds, and completing his collection. Among other things he painted the "Death of Montgomery" from a print. His friends persuaded him to raffle the picture off.
"Upon my word that was very good-natured of you," said Mrs Thorne. "I never keep a fellow to his desk who has really got important business elsewhere," said Sir Raffle. "The country, I say, can afford to do as much as that for her servants. But then I like to know that the business is business. One doesn't choose to be humbugged."
It was finally agreed upon that they should "raffle" for Dutchy's "kit" in the morning; and this point being settled, one by one dropped off, some to sleep in their bunks in the forecastle, and others upon the deck or in hammock slung to the spars and rigging. All were soon asleep, and silence once more brooded over the scene.
Some sort of a wooden pin- rail had carried away on the starboard-rail at the foot of the mizzen- shrouds, and an amazing raffle of ropes and tackles washed about. Here Nancy and half-a-dozen men worked sporadically, and in fear of their lives, to clear the tangle.
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