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It might have longed at me as much as it liked, I couldn't have bought it, if it had been two-and-six! I need all my money for necessities," Mary Rhodes said, sighing; and Claire felt a pang of reproach, for, since her return, Cecil had indeed seemed painfully short of loose cash.
But after one of the savagest of these renunciations, while he was stamping defiantly down Tottenham Court Road, he saw in a window a walking-stick that he was sure she would like his carrying. And it cost only two-and-six. Hastily, before he changed his mind, he rushed in and slammed down his money.
Godall, I have dealt with you you doubtless know my face calamities for which I cannot blame myself have overwhelmed me. Oh, sir, for the love of innocence, for the sake of the bonds of humanity, and as you hope for mercy at the throne of grace, lend me two-and-six! 'I do not recognise your face, replied Mr. Godall; 'but I remember the cut of your beard, which I have the misfortune to dislike.
Before a month it is a fact that the wretched haberdashers in the city exhibited the blue stocks, called "Heiress-killers, very chaste, two-and-six:" long before that, the monde had rushed to Madame Crinoline's, or sent couriers to Madame Marabou, at Paris, so as to have copies of her dresses; but, as the Mantuan bard observes, "Non cuivis contigit," every foot cannot accommodate itself to the chaussure of Cinderella.
He seemed to be listening attentively, his strong, square face set like a mask; but his eyes roamed here and there. "Bread two-and-six the small loaf," Mr Pennycuick dribbled into his dreaming ears. "Eggs sixpence apiece. Cheap enough, too, compared with the gold prices. But gold was not thought of for ten years after that.
'It'll never be the last time till it's quite worn out, rejoined the shopman. 'It's grown yellow in the service as it is. 'Its master has grown yellow in the service, if you mean that, my friend, said Mr Tigg; 'in the patriotic service of an ungrateful country. You are making it two-and-six, I think? 'I'm making it, returned the shopman, 'what it always has been two shillings.
"That'll be ten shillings on the two notes, and the ring seven-and-six seventeen-and-six in total; that leaves nine pounds two-and-six- pence change and here you air. Only," here Higgins produced pen and ink, "you'll obleege me by writing your name and where you lodges on the back of the notes." "What's that for?" said Will, drawing back a step or two.
You can't imagine how much thought I expended on this hat. 'It was worth it. You look absolutely' 'Just a minute, Mr. Selwyn. You are not going to tell me I look charming? 'That was my intention. She sighed, with a pretty pretence at disappointment. 'That will cost me half-a-crown, she said. 'I beg your' 'Yes; I wagered myself two-and-six to a "bob" that you wouldn't use that word.
"There was no practical joke about it at all," Mr Sandbach protested. "If the half-sovereign has disappeared it's not my fault. I made a bet with you, and I've lost it. Here's your half-crown." He produced two-and-six, which Mr Gale accepted, though he had a strange impulse to decline it with an air of offended pride. "I'm still seven-and-six out," said Mr Gale.
I should only have been in the way," she said; "best to keep out of it all." The train sped on. At every station the attentive guard walked by, turned an observant eye, touched his cap. The old girl was good for two-and-six at the journey's end, perhaps; also, perhaps, she would thank him and give him nothing. A guard can never be sure. Still !
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