Well, he committed the--wrote the name I mean,--and stood two ten-pound notes for the information, quite handsome.

But now this same young gent is going to marry a young lady with five thousand pounds in her own right, and she nearly of age.

Her father, I understand, is worth another five thousand, and very old; so that what he'll get ultimately if he marries into that family, counting his own expectations, won't be much less I should say than twenty thousand pounds.

Now I mean to say, under these circumstances, I should be neglecting my own interests most culpably, if I didn't demand from him the trifling sum of three hundred pounds for holding my tongue." "Why, curse you," broke in Hawker, "you said two hundred yesterday." "Exactly so," said Lee, "but that WAS yesterday.

To-morrow, if the job ain't settled, it'll be four, and the day after five.