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Why, it was the whole party from the house, as had come out to play at poachers! Who ever heard of such a game? Some on 'em got it hot, I reckon, in the new spinney yonder. But that was no matter. We've all had our skins full of rum punch, and a sov. apiece, because Squire says we proved ourselves good watch-dogs. And here," continued the old man, exultingly, "are a couple of sovs. for yourself.
Hungarian potables, not to mention the products of a dozen other Sov political divisions including Russia, were of the best, but the denizens of the West-world Embassy drank bourbon and Scotch, or at most the products of the vines of California.
"Has the football club been doing well again?" asked the old boy. "Oh, middling. By the way, the fellows growled rather when you only sent them half-a-sov. instead of a sov." Reginald coloured up. Little his comrade knew what that half-sovereign had cost him!
I wouldn't change it for a golden sov, to every page." As he spoke, footsteps were heard approaching the door. With a startled air Molloy thrust the book into its place and sprang up. "See there, now!" he said remonstratively, "who'd ever ha' thowt that I'd come to jerk about like that?"
Buckram, muttering to himself in apparent calculation, 'standin' at livery three-and-sixpence a night, grum, and so on I wouldn't mind, continued he briskly, 'givin' of you twenty pund for 'im if you'd throw me back a sov., continued he, seeing Mr. Waffles' brow didn't contract into the frown he expected at having such a sum offered for his three-hundred-guinea horse.
This, with the three pound fourteen already in the heel, made a total of seven pounds one shilling. "I'll tell you," said Wicks. "Let Carthew and Tommy and me take one pound apiece, and Hemstead and Amalu split the other four, and toss up for the odd bob." "O, rot!" said Carthew. "Tommy and I are bursting already. We can take half a sov' each, and let the other three have forty shillings."
"Please, sir," she said, "can you change 'alf a sov?" "No, I can't," said Mr Blurt, so gruffly that the small girl retired in haste. "Stay! come here," cried the repentant shopman. The child returned with some hesitation. "Who trusted you with half a sov?" "Miss Lillycrop, sir." "And who's Miss Lillycrop?" "My missis, sir." "Does your missis think that I'm a banker?" demanded Mr Blurt sternly.
"A Low-Lower," Andersen or Dickson said. "Not exactly," the Sov protested. "Let us put it this way. Marx once wrote that when true Socialism had arrived, the formula would be from each according to his abilities and to each according to his needs. Unhappily, due to the fact that the Proletarian Paradise is surrounded by potential enemies, we have not as yet established this formula.
Whereat, of course, Mr Horncastle was in a mighty state of wrath, and quite ready for poor Jack and me when we appeared. "Oh, here you are. Perhaps you'll hand me out half a sov., you two." "What for?" demanded I. "Never you mind, but you'd better look sharp, or I'll give you in charge!" said Horncastle, pompously.
And as to Alice, she'd be even worse. But a sov.'s worth doing something for. I say! I do feel happy! I never had all that lot of bullion in the whole course of my life before. Are you right now, Kathleen can you slip upstairs without making any noise?
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