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Updated: June 10, 2025
The shillings looked like half-crowns and the sixpence like a shilling. It was a pretty sight and sound, and I listened and looked for a long time. But all this time what had become of the plant? Why, when I gave the silver to the spring I had wrapped the plant carefully in a silk handkerchief and put it safe in my breast pocket.
I had lectured in this chapel a few days previous; and this young gentleman, with more than ordinary zeal and enthusiasm for the cause of bleeding humanity, and respect for me, had gone amongst his father's congregation and sold a number of copies of my book, and had come to bring me the money. I wiped the silent tear from my eyes as the young man placed the thirteen half-crowns in my hand.
"Two half-crowns, and it's yours, and a bargain; you won't know the old fellow when he's had a wash!" "What do you say, Hutton?" inquired Douglas, turning to his friend. "Well, I think you might risk five shillings; you don't see such ugliness every day, and I should not wonder if it was a good piece. I've never come across one like it." "All right then, I'll take the horror."
Katherine's Dock House, the very steps from which he had some six weeks before surveyed the cabstand, the buildings, the policemen, the boot-blacks, the paint, gilt, and plateglass of the Black Horse, with the eye of a Conqueror. "I hadn't any half-crowns to spare for tips," he remarked grimly. He had been afraid of being stopped by some rule of no-admittance. However he was not pursued.
Kit coming down-stairs would be called in; entertained with some moral and agreeable conversation; perhaps entreated to mind the office for an instant while Mr Brass stepped over the way; and afterwards presented with one or two half-crowns as the case might be.
A wild unreasoning panic possessed me, and I sped out of the garden like a guilty thing, wriggled through the rabbit-run, and threaded my doubtful way homewards, hounded by nameless terrors. The half-crowns happily remained solid and real to the touch; but could I hope to bear such treasure safely through the brigand-haunted wood?
'I congratulate you, he went on; 'you are indeed among those favoured by the Immortals. First you find half-crowns in the garden, and now this. The high priest advises you to tell your Father, and ask if you may keep it. My hero has become penitent, but impatient. I must pull him out of this scrape. Ye have my leave to depart.
They thought that, as these cottagers were poor and untaught, they must be stupid and brutish; and as long as they, their superiors, condescended to talk to them, and to give them shillings and half-crowns, or articles of clothing, they had a right to amuse themselves, even at their expense; and the people must adore them as angels of light, condescending to minister to their necessities, and enlighten their humble dwellings.
Even I, as a new hand, was, in fair proportion, as well paid by the week as the rest. Whatever we paid for in Barkingham was paid for in the genuine Mint coinage. I used often to compare my own true guineas, half-crowns and shillings with our imitations under the doctor's supervision, and was always amazed at the resemblance.
I will purchase a Bible instantly, that is, if I have not lost—’ and with considerable agitation I felt in my pocket. The prim-looking man smiled: ‘I suppose,’ said he, ‘that he has lost his money as well as book.’ ‘No,’ said I, ‘I have not’; and pulling out my hand I displayed no less a sum than three half-crowns.
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