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I think I shall 'ave to stick on another tenner, eh, Bill? Come on!" Their very voices were a misery to the shrinking, aching, choking Finn, who stood shuddering in his fetid den, his sensitive nose wrinkling with horror and disgust. His need of water was the thing which hurt him the most cruelly; but the nature of his prison was a good deal of a torture, too.
I asked him how much he owed. It came to about seven hundred pounds. The rent alone was two hundred. He had already raised money on the furniture, and his whole assets came to less than a tenner. Of course, there was only one possible thing that I could advise.
"If I gave her a tenner," he said, "that would make her see as I'd settled to forget that business, and let bygones be bygones. I'll give her a tenner." It was preposterous. She could not, of course, spend it. She would put it away. So it would not be wasted. Upon this he rose. Poor simpleton! Ever since the commencement of his relations with Helen, surprise had followed surprise for him.
"What is a church?" I asked. "Oh, I forgot," says the twenty, "that I was talking to a tenner. Of course you don't know. You're too much to put into the contribution basket, and not enough to buy anything at a bazaar. A church is a large building in which penwipers and tidies are sold at $20 each." I don't care much about chinning with gold certificates. There's a streak of yellow in 'em.
However, I know plenty of fellows in the city, and I guess I can raise a tenner or so." "Then your credit must be better in New York than in Colebrook," thought Grant, but he fore-bore to say so. Grant was rather glad the little package of pearls was in the pocket furthest away from Tom, for his opinion of his companion's honesty was not the highest.
As to money, well, so far as a fiver, or even a tenner, goes, you can always look to me." Even in his chastened frame of mind the noble miser could give us no information which could help us, for he knew little of the private life of his nephew. Our only clue lay in the truncated telegram, and with a copy of this in his hand Holmes set forth to find a second link for his chain.
He seemed so earnest about it that I humoured him; and my correspondents seemed so earnest that I humoured them. But it was a grim jest. Most of the matters with which I had to deal appeared so trivial. Only here and there did I find a chance for eumoiriety. The Wymington Hospital applied for their annual donation. "You generally give a tenner," said Dale.
I have only to write to the dear old man at home, and ask him to send me a fiver or a tenner, and he'll do it. You need have no qualms, and " "But when must I give them back?" "Whenever you like." "You don't really require them on Monday, do you?" "I don't require them at any special date. Pay me when it is convenient. Here, you may as well have ten." "I could not; it is too much," said Elma.
"Look here, young fellow," Francis said equably, "I don't know what the state of your exchequer is " "I owe you forty," Lord Charles interrupted. "Spring another tenner, make it fifty, that is, and the letter of introduction I will write for you will bring tears of gratitude to your eyes." "I'll spring the tenner," Francis promised, "but you'll write just what I tell you no more and no less."
That fellow Soames, for instance, would have a ft if you tried to borrow a tenner from him, or, if he didn't have a fit, he looked at you with his cursed supercilious smile, as if you were a lost soul because you were in want of money.
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