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Altamont, puffing at his cigar. "Why does she leave me without pocket-money, then? Damme, I must have money," cried out the Baronet. "Oh, Am , oh, Altamont, I'm the most miserable beggar alive." "You'd like a chap to lend you a twenty-pound note, wouldn't you now?" the other asked. "If you would, I'd be grateful to you for ever for ever, my dearest friend," cried Clavering.
I am delighted to see you, my boy! They tell me you have got a capital estate and plenty of ready. Lord, we so wanted you, as there's scarcely a fellow with sixpence among us. Give me the lad that can do a bit of paper at three months, and always be ready for a renewal. You haven't got a twenty-pound note?" This was said sotto voce. "Never mind; ten will do.
Preston offered her first a five, and then a twenty-pound note; but she declined either; but she did not decline a present that the two ladies made her together, and this was no other than my release from the Fleet. Lord Tiptoff's lawyer paid every one of the bills against me, and that happy christening-day made me a free man.
"For God's sake keep quiet!" he said; "don't excite yourself. You needn't think you have found a gold mine. It ain't a ten thousand-guinea Vandyke. We can't see enough yet to say what it is, but I'll bet my life you never get a twenty-pound note for it." But for all Westray's impatience, the afternoon was well advanced before the head of the portrait was approached.
I had a battery of four twenty-pound Parrott guns, commanded by Captain Silversparre.
"Hamish Channing is in a responsible position; he would not be likely to emperil it for a twenty-pound note; and he could not know that the letter contained money." Mr. Butterby was not cognizant of quite the facts of the case, you see. "It is absurd to suspect Arthur Channing."
And that he, having changed a twenty-pound bank-note, paid five pounds of it away to his landlord, Mr. Marlow. He reflected also very severely on the evidence given against him by Mr. Burton, which he said was the very reverse of the truth. Burton having often solicited him to go upon the highway as the shortest method of easing his misfortunes and bringing them both money.
No outward solace could counteract the bitterness of this inward woe. But outward solace came. Cold faces looked kind again, and parishioners turned over in their minds what they could best do to help their pastor. Mr. Oldinport wrote to express his sympathy, and enclosed another twenty-pound note, begging that he might be permitted to contribute in this way to the relief of Mr.
Citizens have been warned to boil all drinking water and to bury refuse. City water is now flowing under twenty-pound pressure. Sewers in some sections are again in operation. The city expects to have others working tomorrow.
Galloway drew his attention; in an abrupt and angry manner, as it struck Arthur. "Channing, you told me, yesterday, that you posted that letter for Ventnor on Friday" "So I did, sir." "It has been robbed." "Robbed!" returned Arthur, in surprise, scarcely realizing immediately the meaning of the word. "You know that it contained money a twenty-pound note. You saw me put it in."
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