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It took a lot of explaining to some of 'em, but Smith, the landlord, helped Henery, and in less than four days twenty-three men had paid their tuppences to Henery, who 'ad been made the seckitary, and told him to hand them over to Smith in case he lost his memory.
I left Euphemia standing on the sidewalk with her mouth open like that" she made the funniest grimace in the world "and the automobile brought me here to get some money to buy the chickens." She held out her hand to Jaffery. "Confound the chickens," he cried. "It's the taxi I'm thinking of ticking out tuppences, to say nothing of the mileage.
It took a lot of explaining to some of 'em, but Smith, the landlord, helped Henery, and in less than four days twenty-three men had paid their tuppences to Henery, who 'ad been made the seckitary, and told him to hand them over to Smith in case he lost his memory.
"It's sickening to think of that taxi sitting out there totting up tuppences. Come and sit on the lid of this trunk, will you?" Henry did not move from the window. Gilbert straightened himself. For a moment or two he could not see clearly because he was giddy with stooping. Then he crossed the room and took hold of Henry's arm. "Come on, Quinny," he said, pulling him towards the trunk.
"Ticking tuppences away like the very dickens, too!" returned Nan, emerging from her room dressed for a journey. It was a week or two later and in response to a wire and as the result of a good deal of persuasion on the part of Penelope Nan had accepted an engagement to play at a big charity concert in Exeter.
"Old gent," he said; "he asked me to fetch it up straight away." "Thank you very much," said Peter, and then, as the Porter lingered, he added: "I'm most awfully sorry I haven't got twopence to give you like Father does, but " "You drop it if you please," said the Porter, indignantly. "I wasn't thinking about no tuppences.
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