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As to making yourself responsible for what you don't possess, that's simply speculation. Everybody on the Stock Exchange always does it. If they didn't there'd be no such thing as enterprise at all. You can't make a fortune by risking a ha'penny." "But what am I to do?" Guy cried wildly. "However am I to raise three thousand pounds? I should be ashamed to let Cyril know I'd defaulted like this.
"Hold your noise and I'll give you a ha'penny," she said, tartly. Gussie caught his breath with a sob, but kept steam up, having on some similar occasions been treated with more diplomacy than honesty. But to-day he got the half-penny, together with a penny from the visitor, and, having sold his concern in his father for three halfpence, gloated triumphantly in a corner over his envious peers.
One evening he confided to Archie: "For a ha'penny I would knock his ugly black head off the skulking dodger!" And the straightforward Archie pretended to be shocked! Such was the infernal spell which that casual St. Kitt's nigger had cast upon our guileless manhood! But the same night Belfast stole from the galley the officers' Sunday fruit pie, to tempt the fastidious appetite of Jimmy.
And there was the money for the broth bone, and the farthing that would have filled the gude-man's evening pipe, and the ha'penny for the grandmither's tea. It was the world-over story of the poor helping the poor. The progress of Ailie and Tammy through the tenements was like that of the piper through Hamelin.
His wife went off grumbling, and then Bill told Joe Barlcomb to hurry up wot he'd got to say as 'e 'adn't got much on and the weather wasn't as warm as it might be. "I sold you a shilling for a ha'penny last night, Bill," ses Joe. "Do you want to sell any more?" ses Bill Jones, putting his 'and down to where 'is trouser pocket ought to be. "Not exactly that," ses Joe Barlcomb.
'What's the demd total? was the first question he asked. 'Fifteen hundred and twenty-seven pound, four and ninepence ha'penny, replied Mr Scaley, without moving a limb. 'The halfpenny be demd, said Mr Mantalini, impatiently. 'By all means if you vish it, retorted Mr Scaley; 'and the ninepence.
A ha'penny will buy one of the tiny bunches which they have made up with swift fingers, and they are bought even by the poorest; how, heaven only knows. But, in cracked jug or battered tin, the bunch of violets sweetens the foul air, or the bit of mignonette grows and even thrives, where human kind cannot.
Down here, a British steamship line has laid down local rules which, in my case anyway, are ridiculous. The question is, are you going to be bound by the red tape of a ha'penny British colony, or by your oath to the President of the United States?" The sophistry amused Marshall. He smiled good-naturedly and shook his head. "I'm afraid, Senator," he said, "that way of putting it is hardly fair.
Then, addressing poor "Downy" he cried out curtly, "Turn out your pockets!" The ex-gravedigger sadly produced four sovereigns. "Is that all the money you've got?" "Yes, sir," replied "Downy," in a still more sepulchral tone. "Every ha'penny." "Then, pay this woman here, for you must have a rig-out for the voyage," said the lieutenant.
I've heard they keep their whole establishment on factory fines." "Soul alive, but those Shuffle and Screw are rotten, snickey, bad yarns," said Mistress Carey. "Now ma'am, if you please; fi'pence ha'penny; no, ma'am, we've no weal left. Weal, indeed! you look very like a soul as feeds on weal," continued Mrs Carey in an under tone as her declining customer moved away.
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