[Tom Brown’s Schooldays by Thomas Hughes]@TWC D-Link bookTom Brown’s Schooldays CHAPTER VI--AFTER THE MATCH 2/32
She bakes such stunning murphies, we'll have a penn'orth each for tea.
Come along, or they'll all be gone." Tom's new purse and money burnt in his pocket; he wondered, as they toddled through the quadrangle and along the street, whether East would be insulted if he suggested further extravagance, as he had not sufficient faith in a pennyworth of potatoes.
At last he blurted out,-- "I say, East, can't we get something else besides potatoes? I've got lots of money, you know." "Bless us, yes; I forgot," said East, "you've only just come.
You see all my tin's been gone this twelve weeks--it hardly ever lasts beyond the first fortnight; and our allowances were all stopped this morning for broken windows, so I haven't got a penny.
I've got a tick at Sally's, of course; but then I hate running it high, you see, towards the end of the half, 'cause one has to shell out for it all directly one comes back, and that's a bore." Tom didn't understand much of this talk, but seized on the fact that East had no money, and was denying himself some little pet luxury in consequence.
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