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Now, I won't swear, but I'm morally certain that guineas haven't been what they call in circulation for years and years and years." "You're always seeing them in subscription lists," Miss Oliver objected. "Take our Emergency Fund 'Charles Pendarves Tresawna, Esq., J.P., twenty-five guineas." "I seem to remember that the Squire paid by cheque," said Mrs Polsue drily.
Then he felt sorry and wanted to hug me in front of everybody. . . . Oh, thank you . . . yes, I've enjoyed myself very much! Mrs Tresawna wears a toque: but I suppose that when you get to a certain position you can carry on with toques long after every one else has given them up.
"He was as good as promised it before the Unionists went out of office, as his services to the party well deserved. This Government appoints none but its own creatures. . . . And Squire Tresawna living three miles away with the chance, when you get there, of finding he's not at home " "You might send him a letter," suggested Miss Oliver.
Anyway I opened my eyes at last night it was, an' all the stars blazin' an' the boat was empty all except me an' Jeff Tresawna, him that had bled to death. He was lying up high in the bows, wi' his legs stretched Out towards me along the bottom-boards.
"The good Lord in Heaven behear us! . . . Whose money be this, an' where dropped from?" "There piles of it " panted 'Beida. "Lashin's of it " echoed 'Bert. "An' it all belongs to Mr Nanjivell, that we used to call Nicky-Nan, an' wonder if we could get a pair o' father's old trousers on to him with a little tact an' him all the while as rich as Squire Tresawna!"
There was sharks about: cruel things happen 'pon the sea. The boat was in a gashly cauch of blood too. One chap Jeff Tresawna it was: his mother lived over to Looe had tried to open a vein, to drink, an' had made a mess o't an' bled to death. Far as I know there was no fightin' to eat one another, same as one hears tell of now an' then.
"It concerns me to this extent. By the-common law of England all such money, so discovered, belongs to the Crown: though I understand it is usually shared equally among the Crown, the finder, and the lord of the manor on which it was hidden. I bought them from Squire Tresawna these ten years since.
"You cut it yourself, fallin' against the scurtin'-board by the cupboard," put in Builder Gilbert. 'Beida noted his nervousness. "You say so!" she rapped on him. "Maybe when Mr Nanjivell has you up before Squire Tresawna, you'll all swear to it in league." Again she turned to Nicky.
'Bert, for no other reason than that he had tired himself out, was sulky and uncommunicative. But 'Beida whose whole manner ever changed when once she had been persuaded into fine clothes wore an air of sustained gentility. "Squire Tresawna keeps seven gardeners," she reported. "He has three motor-cars and two chauffeurs.
" Rich as Squire Tresawna an' holy Solomon rolled into one," corroborated 'Bert, nodding vigorously. "Pinch it 'tween your fingers, mother, if you won't believe." But to her children's consternation Mrs Penhaligon, after a swift glance at the gold, turned about on Nicky-Nan as he backed shamefacedly to the doorway, and opened on him the vials of unintelligible fury.
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