This apparatus had been so ingeniously combined that it did not weigh more than seven hundred
pounds, even including twenty-five gallons of water in another receptacle.
He declined a proffered present of tobacco, bought a case of stick tobacco from Van Horn, paying him five
pounds for it, and insisted on having it sawed open so that he could fill his pipe.
"It was so at its first discovery, but it has fallen now to nine dollars a
pound."
Garth had failed in the building business, which he had unfortunately added to his other avocations of surveyor, valuer, and agent, had conducted that business for a time entirely for the benefit of his assignees, and had been living narrowly, exerting himself to the utmost that he might after all pay twenty shillings in the
pound. He had now achieved this, and from all who did not think it a bad precedent, his honorable exertions had won him due esteem; but in no part of the world is genteel visiting founded on esteem, in the absence of suitable furniture and complete dinner-service.
He took out and consulted a pocket almanac, and added, "As today is Wednesday, the 2nd of October, I shall be due in London in this very room of the Reform Club, on Saturday, the 21st of December, at a quarter before nine p.m.; or else the twenty thousand
pounds, now deposited in my name at Baring's, will belong to you, in fact and in right, gentlemen.
"You take 'm three fella
pound along me," Gogoomy muttered, at the same time scowling his hatred at Sheldon, and transferring half the scowl to Joan and Kwaque.
If the place belongs to the members, why do they have to pay thirty
pounds?'
'Speakun' o' Auckland--of course, Captun, you was never un Auckland?' 'Yus,' I says, 'I was un there very recent.' 'Oh, ho,' he says, very angry-like, 'so you was the smart Aleck thot fetched me thot letter from the owners: "We note item of fufteen
pounds for pilotage ot Auckland.
"Take that to the banker's, and bring back a five-hundred
pound note," she said.
He survived his uncle no longer; and ten thousand
pounds, including the late legacies, was all that remained for his widow and daughters.
Gamfield smiled, too, as he perused the document; for five
pounds was just the sum he had been wishing for; and, as to the boy with which it was encumbered, Mr.
Considering the relative ages of the two ladies, the aunt's chance, in the ordinary course of nature, of receiving the ten thousand
pounds, was thus rendered doubtful in the extreme; and Madame Fosco resented her brother's treatment of her as unjustly as usual in such cases, by refusing to see her niece, and declining to believe that Miss Fairlie's intercession had ever been exerted to restore her name to Mr.