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'Why, Mr Rice Rice tells me there is more than a hundred thousand pounds to be raffled for by all the young ladies in the country. They have simply to put themselves into the lottery, and only one can have the prize. 'I never knew you so figurative before. Sir Hugh. 'Don't pay any attention to him, Miss Gwynne, said a fresh addition to the circle that stood round that young lady's chair.
Waterford, an old lady of ninety-three, from Mullinavat, is here primarily for her health, and secondarily to dispose of threepenny shares in an antique necklace, which is to be raffled for the benefit of a Roman Catholic chapel. Then we have a fishing gentleman and his bride from Glasgow, and occasional bicyclers who come in for a dinner, a tea, or a lodging.
Among the cups on the long table before the sitters lay an open parcel of light drapery the gown-piece, as it was called which was to be raffled for. Wildeve was standing with his back to the fireplace smoking a cigar; and the promoter of the raffle, a packman from a distant town, was expatiating upon the value of the fabric as material for a summer dress.
Fancy that lovely opal Venetian vase going to that big bony Scotswoman, Mr. M'Vie's mother." "Indeed! That is a pity. If I had known it would be raffled for, I would have sent a private commission, though I don't know if Julius would have let me. He says it is gambling. What became of the Spa work-box, with the passion-flower wreath?" "I don't know.
I was told afterwards that Bruce raffled my horse and sold fifty tickets for a sovereign each, but I am not inclined to believe that story, and at any rate I should not have known where to find fifty fools. I certainly could not have discovered them in Oxford, where some people, who have never been there, make the mistake of thinking they are to be found in crowds.
'Nothin', sez I, 'but a great dale to you, for begad I'm thinkin' you get the full half av your revenue from that sedan-chair. Is ut always raffled so? I sez, an' wid that I wint to a coolie to ask questions. Bhoys, that man's name is Dearsley, an' he's been rafflin' that ould sedan-chair monthly this matther av nine months.
But Hartrath, unwilling to face the enmity that he felt accumulating against him, took himself away. A picture of his "A Study of the Contra Costa Foot-hills" was to be raffled in the club rooms for the benefit of the Fair. He, himself, was in charge of the matter. He disappeared. Cedarquist looked after him with contemplative interest.
I was married at eighteen, and, strange to say, to one who appeared a realization of all my girlish fancies; he was noble-minded, warm-hearted, and almost as enthusiastic as myself with a sweetness of temper which I have never seen raffled, except by some act of injustice or cruelty.
From then onwards, you have always been the most loyal and indulgent of friends, forgetting no one as you rapidly climbed to fame, and were raffled for by all parties from Sandringham to the crossing-sweeper. Your early years will sell the book. Bless you. St. John Midleton was one of the rare people who tell the truth.
"I met her at a church festival one Christmas Eve," responded Aunt Saidie, in a high-pitched, rasping voice. "The same evening that I got this pink crocheted nuby." She touched a small pointed shawl about her shoulders. "Miss Belinda Beale worked it and it was raffled off for ten cents a chance."
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