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But the shillings never came back perhaps people did not think so small a sum worth returning; so he went on to half-crowns and crowns, and now and then, in very particular cases, he even ventured a guinea; but it was always with the same luck, and the longer he tried, the more he distrusted there being any honesty in the world, and the more disposed he felt to leave all his money to Leah Leet, who had lived with him so long, and to his belief, had never wronged him of a penny.
"Very true, child," answered Adams; "I will write a letter to him, and will even venture to solicit him for three half-crowns; there will be no harm in having two or three shillings in our pockets; as we have full forty miles to travel, we may possibly have occasion for them."
She was evidently aware that the butter was not full weight, but with the addition it satisfied the inspector's test, the two half-crowns just balancing the one ounce short. No sooner was he gone than the spectator came forward to buy the butter.
"And the gentlemen of the hunt have paid you nothing." "I had four half-crowns once," said the woman. "If you don't send the heads you don't get it," said the man, "and then they'll keep you waiting months and months, just for their pleasures. Who's a going to put up with that? I ain't." "And now you're going to law?" "I am, like a man. His Lordship ain't nothin' to me.
And I'm not the least in a hurry;" and she went on slobbering out the cards, and counting them over and over again, almost as each card fell. "That's a double and a treble against a single," said Lady Longspade, cheerfully, from another table; "six points, and five the other rubber makes eleven; and the two half-crowns is sixteen, and seven odd tricks is nineteen and six. Here's sixpence, Mrs.
Ten to one bar three or four. Will that suit you?" "The luncheon-basket will suit us a deal better," said Sarah. At that moment a chap came up jingling two half-crowns in his hand. "What price the favourite?" "Two to one," cried William.
"We've exhausted all the chocolate," said she. "But there's butterscotch left it's nearly as good and gold-tipped cigarettes. I daresay some of them would enjoy a smoke. Have you got any more pennies?" "No!" he replied. "But I've got ten or a dozen half-crowns. They'll work the machine just as well, won't they?" This time she did notice a certain unusualness in the flavour of his accent.
And meantime there goes the idler, who began life along with them by your leave, a different picture. Might not the student afford some Hebrew roots, and the business man some of his half-crowns, for a share of the idler's knowledge of life at large, and Art of Living? Nay, and the idler has another and more important quality than these. I mean his wisdom.
I'll give you a shilling! The boy spoke with the air as though shillings were plentiful enough. But, in truth, he had only two half-crowns of his own in the world; they were the entire amount of his savings, which he had brought on setting forth in life. The woman with the curl-papers stared hard down at the two young strangers before she answered, not so ill-naturedly
His ripe experience on the subject was gleaned partly from neighbouring families, partly from infrequent visits to "Aunt Jane" whom he hated with a deep unreasoned hate and "Uncle George," who had a kind, stupid face, but anyhow tried to be funny and made futile bids for favour with pen-knives and half-crowns.
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