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"Disappointed!" retorted John scornfully. "I don't want any of old Rathburn's sixpenny books. I can buy as many as I please. If he'd given 'em to me, I should have asked him to keep 'em for those who needed 'em more."
"Your politics are in your girl's pocket," muttered Mrs. Sowler. "How long will her money last?" Jervy turned a deaf ear to the interruption. "And what has brought you here?" he went on, in his most ingratiating way. "Did you see the advertisement in the papers?" Mrs. Sowler answered loud enough to be heard above the hum of talking in the sixpenny places.
We turned out of Pitt Street into Hunter Street, and across George Street, where a double line of fast electric tramway was running, into Margaret Street and had a drink at Pfahlert's Hotel, where a counter lunch as good as many dinners you get for a shilling was included with a sixpenny drink. "Get a quiet corner," said Mitchell, "I like to bear myself cackle."
It was late that evening when, in obedience to the summons of a sixpenny telegram, Maurice Mangan called at the stage-door of the New Theatre and was passed in.
But on reflection he saw there could be no danger. "All up with him, poor diavolo! Can't understand it such a little sixpenny miss pretty enough boiled parsnip blonde, if one likes that sort of thing pleases some of the old boys, apparently. Look out, Mr. L. remember Susanna and the Elders. Good! "Safe enough if something new doesn't turn up. Youngish. Sixteen's a little early. Seventeen will do.
The sixpenny ones were barely neat they had no gala look about them at all. While Daisy's eye went from one to the other, it glanced upon the figure of the poor, patient, little waiting girl who stood watching her. "If you please, Mr. Lamb," she said, "will you hear what this little girl has to say? while I look at these." "What do you want, child?"
They had now reached the side of the vessel, and the sailors came down into the boat, and took up several articles upon credit; Joey booked them very regularly. "Has Bill been down yet?" said a soft voice from the gangway. "No, Nancy, he has not." "Then he wants two red herrings, a sixpenny loaf, and some 'baccy."
Picking it up, he discovered that it was a bank book on the Sixpenny Savings Bank of Albany, standing in the name of Rachel Norris, and numbered 17,310. "This is stolen property, too," thought Carl. "I wonder if there is much in it." Opening the book he saw that there were three entries, as follows: 1883. Jan. 23. Five hundred dollars. " June 10. Two hundred dollars. " Oct. 21.
'T was a very elongated young man who took me, a young cigar-maker fond of reciting, spouting Shakespeare from a sixpenny edition, playing Hamlet mentally as he rolled the tobacco-leaf. There was a halo about his head, for he was on speaking terms with the low comedian of the "Brit.," and, I understood, was permitted upon occasion to pay for a pint of half-and-half.
Owing to there not being a piece of ground the size of a sixpenny piece level in this place, the arrangement of my box camp takes time, but at last it is done to my complete satisfaction, close to a tree trunk, and I think, as I wrap myself up in my two wet blankets and lean against my tree, what a good thing it is to know how to make one's self comfortable in a place like this.
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