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"Oh, Dixie!" said Christian, suffering equally with artist and critic, "don't you see, it's a picture of me!" Mrs. Dixon took the blow gallantly. "Well, wasn't I the finished fool to forget my specs! I that couldn't see the harp on a ha'penny without them!" "Don't worry, Dixie," said Larry, smacking a ball into a pocket; "I'm not surprised you didn't recognise it it's not half good enough."
"This musician this poor, friendless artist used to come regularly and play in this street just opposite for two hours every evening. One evening he was seen, evidently in response to an invitation, going into this very house, BUT WAS NEVER SEEN COMING OUT OF IT!" "Did the townsfolk try offering any reward for his recovery?" asked Mr. Coombes. "Not a ha'penny," replied my uncle.
I said, as I put my mouth to his ear. "I only want to mind that he had three very beautiful daughters!" "Did ye iver spake t' aany o' thim?" Jamie asked. "Yes." "Whin?" "When I sold them papers." "Ha, ha, a ha'penny connection, eh?" "It's betther t' mind three fine things about a maan than wan mean thing, Jamie," Anna said. "If both o' ye's on me I'm bate," he said.
This is the third night running that I've walked the streets all night; the only money I get is by minding blacking-boys' boxes while they go into Lockhart's for their dinner. I got a penny yesterday at it, and twopence for carrying a parcel, and to-day I've had a penny. Bought a ha'porth of bread and a ha'penny mug of tea."
Busy with visitors, eh? No? Well, I've been thinkin' it over, and I'll take sixpence an hour." "I don't give a ha'penny over fippence," answered Captain Coffin, patently taken aback by the interruption. "Fivepence, then, as a pro-temporary accommodation," said the youth, and, throwing a leg over the wall, heaved himself over and into the back yard.
Bill Hicks said that it was owing to a ha'penny he couldn't account for; but Walter Jones, whose family was always ill, and thought 'e knew a lot about it, said that 'e knew wot it was, but 'e couldn't remember the name of it, and that when we got to London and Thomas saw a doctor, we should see as 'ow 'e was right. Whatever it was the old man got worse and worse.
"Don't forget that bread, our Paul," cried Annie. "Good-night, Miriam. I don't think it will rain." When they had all gone, Paul fetched the swathed loaf, unwrapped it, and surveyed it sadly. "It's a mess!" he said. "But," answered Miriam impatiently, "what is it, after all twopence, ha'penny." "Yes, but it's the mater's precious baking, and she'll take it to heart.
A roar of laughter followed this speech, which excited the Irishman's indignation to its fullest extent. "Ye laugh, do ye? It's little ye would laugh if ye saw these two gintlemen dressing the cuts and sores of poor miners who had divil a ha'penny to pay the doctor with.
That man had no intention of marrying me, no intention whatever of leaving me a cent." "As it happens, he did both." Cassy clenched her small fist. "No matter. He did not intend to and don't you see if I were to accept a ha'penny of his wretched money, I would be benefiting by a crime for which may God forgive my poor, dear father."
"We can't help going round by the Travellers Twopenny, if we go the short way, which is the back way," Durdles answers, "and we'll drop him there." So they go on; Deputy attentive to every movement of the Stony One, until at length nearly at their destination Durdles whistles, and calls "Holloa, you Deputy!" "Widdy!" is Deputy's shrill response, standing off again. "Catch that ha'penny.
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