This is saying a great deal; but it is literally true for all that.
Looking quite fresh and rosy after his night's sleep, the doctor inspected my coin with the air of a schoolmaster examining a little boy's exercise; then handed it to Old File to put the finished touches and correct the mistakes.

It was afterward returned to me.

My own hand placed it in one of the rouleaux of false half-crowns; and my own hand also directed the spurious coin, when it had been safely packed up, to a certain London dealer who was to be on the lookout for it by the next night's mail.

That done, my initiation was so far complete.
"I have sent for your luggage, and paid your bill at the inn," said the doctor; "of course in your name.

You are now to enjoy the hospitality that I could not extend to you before.