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Updated: June 19, 2025
Why don't people look where they put their money?" "It's a shame, a burning shame!" she cried, regarding him steadily. "Oh, yes; no doubt. I lost a hundred thousand yesterday; did I whine about it? If I want to buy anything in the market, have I got to look into every tuppenny interest concerned in it? If Mrs. Fletcher or anybody else has any complaint against me, the courts are open.
Graham had always imagined that the proposal to build a Tunnel between France and England was a joke, and she said so. "Good heavens, mother!" Ninian exclaimed. "Old Hare isn't a joke. The thing's as practicable as the Tuppenny Tube. People have been experimenting for half-a-century with it. Joke, indeed! They've made seven thousand soundings in forty years!..." "Really!" said Mrs. Graham.
This is all I want a bed, and perhaps a tuppenny ha'penny strip of carpet, a couple of chairs, a let me see; if you give me a slip of paper I can make out in a minute what it will come to. 'Never mind that. Will a ten-pound note serve your purposes? 'Dear boy! Dear boy! But on one condition, on one condition only, can I accept it this is a loan, a loan mind! and not a gift.
Roger Carey and Gilbert Farlow met him at Euston. "Hilloa, Quinny!" Gilbert said, "I've been made a dramatic critic, and I'm to do my first play to-night!" "Hurray!" he answered, and turned to greet Roger. "We've bagged a taxi," Gilbert went on. "The driver looks cheeky ... that's why we hired him. We'll give him a tuppenny tip and then we'll give him in charge!..."
I didn't care a tuppenny anything whether he mistook me for nine or ninety; but I did begin to feel that it wouldn't be pleasant unrolling my tissue-paper parcel and bargaining for money under the eyes and ears of the other man. They were very nice eyes and ears.
Damp and doubtfully clean ration bags, towels, and shirts which were draped along the fences, were hastily gathered together and thrust into the capacious depths of pack-sacks. Members of the battalion's sporting contingent broke up their games of tuppenny brag without waiting for "just one more hand," an unprecedented thing.
Why don't people look where they put their money?" "It's a shame, a burning shame!" she cried, regarding him steadily. "Oh, yes; no doubt. I lost a hundred thousand yesterday; did I whine about it? If I want to buy anything in the market, have I got to look into every tuppenny interest concerned in it? If Mrs. Fletcher or anybody else has any complaint against me, the courts are open.
"First, thou shalt not steal. You propose to steal this woman. Second, thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's maid-servant. How many times does that make?" I asked. "Dear me, Bunny," said Henriette, "but you are a little tuppenny Puritan, aren't you? Anybody'd know you were the son of a clergyman! Well, let me tell you, I sha'n't steal the woman, and I sha'n't covet her.
He is that exceptional being, an Italian snob; he can talk of nothing but dukes and princes, Bourbons by choice, because he once served at a banquet given by some tuppenny Parma royalties round the corner. The food would be endurable, save for those vile war-time maccheroni. The wine is of doubtful origin.
"It wouldn't inconvenience your feelings any to take charity from me, would it, seeing I'm as poor as yourself and have dragged ye into this common, tuppenny brawl by my own foolishness?" "You didn't drag me in; I had one foot in already." "I thought so," Patsy nodded, approvingly; her conviction had been correct, then. "And the charity?" "Yes, I'd take it from you."
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