I never heard of such a piece of luck.

What a perfectly delightful man this must be to know." "But I can't take his money," said Hector Spurling, looking somewhat ruefully at the note.

"A little prize-money is all very well in its way, but a Johnny must draw the line somewhere.

Besides it must have been a mistake.

And yet he meant to give me something big, for he could not mistake a note for a coin.