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Did you bet with the rest?" his cousin asked. "I lost my tenner; but what's that!" "There will be an additional five to hand over to the man Sedgett. What's that!" "No, hang it!" Algernon shouted. "You've paid your ten for the shadow cheerfully. Pay your five for the substance." "Do you mean to say that Sedgett " Algernon stared.
Leaning against the bar, or seated at the small tables scattered around, the tramp saw a goodly number of the disciples of Bacchus, while from an inner room the clicking of ivory chips and half suppressed expressions of "I'll see you an' go you tenner better." "A full house pat, what 'er ye got," designated the altar at which the worshipers of "draw poker" were offering sacrifices.
What profit he expected to extract from this catlike surveillance it is impossible to say. When they arose from the supper-table Boaz made another Herculean effort. "Manuel, you're a good boy!" The formula had a quality of appeal, of despair, and of command. "Manuel, you should be short of money, maybe. Look, what's this? A tenner? Well, there's a piece for the pocket; go and enjoy yourself."
"What'll ye run to?" "Oh," said Mr. Povey, largely, "I don't know." "Will ye run to a tenner?" "I thought of something cheaper." "Well, hoo much? Out wi' it, mester." "Not more than two pounds," said Mr. Povey. He would have said one pound had he dared. The prices of dogs amazed him. "I thowt it was a dog as ye wanted!" said Boon. "Look 'ere, mester. Come up to my yard and see what I've got."
"You've soured my life," said his lordship, frowning a tense, Byronic frown. "That's what you've done soured my whole bally life. I've had a rotten time. I've had to go about touching my friends for money to keep me going. Why, I owe you a fiver, don't I, Pitt, old man?" It was a tenner, to be finnickingly accurate about details, but Jimmy did not say so.
The probability is that if they saw me going to a railway station they'd arrest me." "My own opinion, mister, after what's taken place this morning, is that if you stop here, you'll be arrested before night," remarked Melky coolly. "I'd lay a tenner on it! But you ain't going to stop you must go!
"Well, I'd better give you a tenner to go on with. I'll go and see my solicitor and get him to write to Miller. We can make him pay up something, I'm sure. If we can get a hundred pounds out of him it'll carry you on till after the baby comes." "I wouldn't take a penny from him. I'd rather starve." "But it's monstrous that he should leave you in the lurch like this."
I'll get a tidy reward for taking you back, my young shaver." Then from the unresisting child he took a gold watch and three sovereigns. These he said he would put in a safe place for him, till he was going home again. He expected to get at least a tenner ready money for bringing Algy back, and hoped that he might be allowed to keep the watch into the bargain.
The "tenner" and the young ladies who had given the tableaux had been interviewed, but in neither case had the mysterious pocket been discovered. To-day he had visited the Beehive, but no one in the store had paid any attention to the pocket, or knew of its existence. Colette remained obdurate to his pleadings.
"I don't play cards," said Herlton, "at least not for serious stakes. My winnings or losings wouldn't come to a tenner in an average year. No, I live by commissions, by introducing likely buyers to would-be sellers." "Sellers of what?" asked Yeovil. "Anything, everything; horses, yachts, old masters, plate, shootings, poultry-farms, week-end cottages, motor cars, almost anything you can think of.
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