twenty-pun'-note

Updated: May 5, 2025

"If they only know'd what them as cares for 'em 'd has to bear, maybe they'd think a little. But it ain't natural they should know, Muster Fenwick, and one's a'most tempted to say that a man 'd better have no child at all." "Think of your son George, Mr. Brattle, and of Mrs. Jay." "What's them to me? He sends the girl a twenty-pun'-note, and I wish he'd a kep' it.

Anthony Trollope - The Vicar of Bullhampton