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And, to make the matter worse, the alterations which happened in property during this age, were in general unfavorable to the crown. The small proprietors, or twenty-pound men, went continually to decay; and when their estates were swallowed up by a greater, the new purchaser increased not his subsidy.
"Roland," said Arthur, in a half-whisper, bringing his head close to his friend's, as they leaned together over the desk, "you remember that Ventnor letter, sent on Friday, with the money in it " "Ventnor letter!" interrupted Roland. "What Ventnor letter?" "The one for Robert Galloway. Hamish was looking at it. It had a twenty-pound note in it." "For Ventnor, was it?
"What money?" "The money that was lost. A twenty-pound note has come. He asked me whether it was the veritable note that was taken." "A twenty-pound note come!" repeated puzzled Roland. "It's quite true, Roland. It purports to be sent by the stealer of the money for the purpose of clearing me."
He received the deposit in bank-notes of the following amounts: one fifty-pound note, three twenty-pound notes, six ten-pound notes, and six five-pound notes.
I and Roland Yorke were one day speaking of debts, and I jokingly said a twenty-pound note would pay mine, and leave me something out of it. Jenkins was present, and he may have supposed I spoke in earnest. In point of fact I did not owe anything." It was an assertion more easily made than proved.
From his breast-pocket he took a blue linen envelope, and allowed the Jew to see that it was filled with twenty-pound notes. "I have means outside my pay," said Ford. "I would give almost any price to the man who can cure me." The eyes of the Russian flashed avariciously. "I will arrange the terms to suit you," he exclaimed. "Your case interests me. Do you See this mirage only at sea?"
He was literally without money, and his intention had been to ask the loan of a twenty-pound note from generous Jan, to carry him to London, and keep him there while he turned himself about, and saw what could be done. How could he ask Jan now? There was little doubt that Jan had left himself as void of ready cash as he, Lionel, was. Dr.
'Roland, said she, 'I want you to get me a twenty-pound note from the bank; I have occasion to send one to Ireland. Now, Arthur, I ask you, was ever such encouragement given to a fellow in wrong-doing? Of course, my note, that is, Galloway's note, went to Ireland, and a joyful riddance it seemed; as thoroughly gone as if I had despatched it to the North Pole.
It had gone up from forty dollars to sixty, and now seventy, for a twenty-pound unit of concentrates running sixty per cent or better of tungstic acid and as Wiley resumed his shipments he received a frantic offer of seventy-five dollars a unit. And then once more he smiled.
Occasionally a few citizens or cavalry could be seen running across the streets, and quite a number of negroes were seemingly busy in carrying off bags of grain or meal, which were piled up near the burned depot. Captain De Gres had a section of his twenty-pound Parrott guns unlimbered, firing into the town.
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