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He had served Philip long and faithfully, but he had never received a stiver of salary or "merced," notwithstanding all his work as state councillor, as admiral, as superintendent in Spain; while his younger brother had long been in receipt of nine or ten thousand florins yearly.
I'll be out of this slavery the very moment that Jack opens his guns. And he shall pay the last score, to the last stiver!" In a vain effort at self deception Randall Clayton avoided glancing at the art window where he had seen the mysterious beauty until he was abreast of it. But his beating heart told him already that she was not there.
Bob Lumsden, it may be remarked, was one of the guests, because Lockley was fond of him; and Pat Stiver was there because Bob was fond of him! Both were heartily welcomed. Besides the improvement in Mrs Martin's health, there was also vast improvement in the furniture and general appearance of the attic since the arrival of the legacy.
"That would be a grand way out of the difficulty!" "How?" "It would leave me far freer to deal with her." "Perhaps. And in any case, the more we can honestly avoid reference to his money, the better. We are not called on to rebuke." "Small is my inclination to allude to it so long as not a stiver of it seeks to cross to the Macruadh!" "That is fast as fate.
Lewis, not so young, who had an interest in an old well-established leather firm that had been left him by an uncle. There were some non-eligibles. Mrs. Nicoll had said, in her caustic way: "You make the most of your time, Lily Ludlow. I'm past eighty, and you may find me dead in my bed some morning. I have not a stiver to leave any one; so don't you count on that. I can hardly pay my own way."
I therefore move a vote of confidence in our chief, the man who has produced the money, a thousand thalers in all, half of which was his own, and has divided it equally amongst us, when the landlord's bill was paid, withholding not a single thaler, nor arrogating I think that was your word, friend Ebearhard to himself a stiver more of the money than each of the others received.
Ain't you poor, then, Black Bart?" "On the contrary, I have that much more money left, very likely. And I do not, to say truth, care a jot, a rap or a stiver, what becomes of the derelict Sea Rover now. Have we not taken a better ship for our own?" "Yes, but suppose yon varlet boards the Sea Rover, an' chases us the way we done him?" "Again, by Jove! Jean Lafitte; an idea. But suppose he does?
He even took off his hat and looked into it, then thrust his hand desperately into every pocket. "It's gone, boys," he said at last in a hopeless tone. "No tiffin for us, nor dinner, either. What is to be done? We can't get on without money. If we were in Amsterdam, I could get as much as we want, but there is not a man in Haarlem from whom I can borrow a stiver.
"You shall have all the coin that old miser Mountchance gives me for your next haul of trinkets. I won't touch a farthing for my trouble." Rofflash stipulated for money down. "You won't get a stiver," retorted Sally. "I'm as cleaned out as a gutted herring. That cheating cat Anastasia bagged every shilling I had." Rofflash had no reason to doubt Sally's word.
"Just goin' on the table, sir. I like to hear that question. It's always a sure and good sign." At that moment Pat Stiver appeared walking at an acute angle with the deck, and bearing a dish of smoking turbot. He dived, as it were, into the cabin without breaking the dish, and set it on the very small table, on which tea, bread, butter, and a lump of beef were soon placed beside it.
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