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Something or other! and so we run on. 'What I want to know, said Barnes, the butcher, 'is where he got his tenners from? Kilne shook a sagacious head: 'No knowing! 'I suppose we shall get something out of the fire? Barnes suggested. 'That depends! answered the emphatic Kilne.
There I sat, knowing she was in dire need of money for her poor husband, and wanting sufficient food and drink, perhaps, for herself, and him, and the dear darling baby; and in my hand in my muff I had my purse there with five tenners Bank of England ten-pound uotes, you know fifty pounds altogether, rolled up inside it; and I would have given anything if only I could have pulled them out and made them a present to her then and there; and I couldn't, you see: and, oh, Mr.
I used to dispose of it by a sort of tender, an' £5 was nothink for it; an' once in the gold-rush times, w'en money was laying around like water, a big miner, just to show off, gave me two tenners for it. They used to be wantin' to drive, but I took me father's advice an' never let go the reins. Well, among all these fine chaps Jim Clay wasn't noticed. He was always a terrible quiet feller.
In return, he had much to tell of his father, now dead, the only one of the Tenners, beside themselves, in whose fate his uncle was interested. With Elsie, he was subdued and almost tender in his manner; with the few visitors whom they saw, shy and silent, perhaps a little watchful, if any young man happened to be among them.
I glanced at Clara, who nodded back, pausing as she lifted her glass! "Ah! yes yes, of course. How much?" "Two tenners." "Deep answering deep. Drunk and disorderly, I suppose?" "Blind.
When I sees my pony walking gingerly, I made as if I was took aback. He saw the same thing, and says, 'Pony's wrong. 'Yes, says I, 'worse luck. He says, 'I lay you £50 to £30 I beat you. I says, 'You have me at a disadvantage, sir, but I'm on, and I pulls out my three tenners. Then Sammy got the flint out, and we went into the road.
He does nothing by halves, "notre capitaine". We have been less promptly reimbursed, indeed, not paid at all, by gentlemen boasting a fairer record. How graciously he smiled and bowed as, with his primrose kid gloves, he disengaged the two tenners and a five-pound note from his well-filled receptacle.
"The girls must have some amusement: there'll be no end of balls and parties. I suppose the boys will soon be talking of getting `fivers' and `tenners' out of the `guvner' or `old man. It's the way of the world. And they'll marry and leave us. It's the way of the world "
Something or other! and so we run on. 'What I want to know, said Barnes, the butcher, 'is where he got his tenners from? Kilne shook a sagacious head: 'No knowing! 'I suppose we shall get something out of the fire? Barnes suggested. 'That depends! answered the emphatic Kilne.
After hearing Lars tell his story for the fourth time, he gave him a ten-dollar note, saying: "You did nobly for a Swede, Mr. Gustavus Adolphus, but I would give ten tenners to have had your place and your shillalah, a Swede for a match-lock, but an Irishman for a stick." Jack had hardly recovered when he was waited on by a committee from the mine with a request that he would make another speech.
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