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Skeffington's make jolly good sloe gin, but they can't arouse pity and terror. Yes, I'll do it; but first let me spend the tenner." "I'm taking a holiday, too, today," I said. "How can we amuse ourselves?" Julian had opened the last of his letters. He held up two cards. "Tickets for Covent Garden Ball tonight," he said. "Why not come? It's sure to be a good one." "I should like to," I said.
"'I'll take that bet, my friend, said I, knowing that the effect of the wager on Jarvis would be worth more than the bet itself. I reached for my roll of expense money I had about two hundred dollars on me and slipped out a 'tenner. The druggist went in next door and got his money. The old man held the stakes.
'Well, devil take your soul, you was right, Jacob, an' be damned to you! says 'e; 'you'll find a tenner in my coat pocket 'ere, you've won it, for I sha'n't last the day out, Jacob. An' 'e didn't either, for 'e died afore we got 'im 'ome, an' left me a 'undred pound in 'is will. Ah! gentlemen as is gents is all the same.
Lew Litchfield was a bright young burglar of whom the colonel had heard, and he knew the kind of "job" on which Lew was engaged. "You bought 'em?" he asked. "I gave a tenner for them," said Selby. "I don't think they're much use." The colonel shook his head. "That's not the kind of letter that brings in money," he said.
"But there was a horrid little Frenchwoman came in!" "What; a servant?" "No; a friend. Such a creature! You should have heard her talk. A kind of confidential friend she seemed, who called her Julie. I had to go away and leave her there, of course." "Ah! you'll have to tip that woman." "What, with money?" "I shouldn't wonder." "It would come very expensive." "A tenner now and then, you know.
I should have proposed it myself but for the discomforts and hardships of such a journey." "There's no use doing things by halves," the young man remarked. "As to our other agent, I have the very man Major Tobias Clutterbuck. He is a shrewd, clever fellow, and he's always hard up. Last week he wanted to borrow a tenner from me.
"I'll bet you a tenner. Ask Scrivens." Mr. Ventnor ejaculated: "Scrivens -but they're not " then, staring rather hard, he added: "I won't bet. You may be right. Scrivens are your father's solicitors too, aren't they? Always been sorry he didn't come to me. Shall we join the ladies?" And to the drawing-room he preceded a young man more uncertain in his mind than on his feet....
So I've been thinking, Bess, that if you'd let me have that gimcrack locket my sister gave you, I could raise a tenner on it. Clary can afford to give you plenty of such things, even if it were lost, which it need not be." Of course not. Mrs.
"I'll lend you a fiver or a tenner, if you like, Miss Slater." "You could not do it if you tried, and now the roast pork's off." The witticism was received with a roar from her admirers, and satisfied with her victory, she said "And now, you girls, you come and have drinks with me. What will you have, Kitty, what will you have? give it a name." Kitty protested but was forced to sit down.
When I go back to London I shall try to get a sub-editorship." Mike pressed another tenner upon him, and returning to the smoking-room, and throwing himself into an arm-chair, he lapsed into dreams of the bands and the banners that awaited him.