After all, it was very unlikely that Dagworthy would offer to bear the expense of the lost hat.

Say that a pound had to be restored.
He was in the comfortable mood, following upon unusual indulgence of the appetite, in which the mind handles in a free and easy way the thoughts it is wont to entertain with unquestionable gravity; when it has, as it were, a slippery hold on the facts of life, and constructs a subjective world of genial accommodations.

A pound to restore; on the other hand, nine pounds in pocket.

The sight of the sovereigns was working upon his imagination, already touched to a warmer life than was its habit.

Nine pounds would go a long way towards solving the financial difficulties of the year; it would considerably more than replace the lacking rent of the house in Barnhill; would replace it, and pay as well the increased rent of the house at Banbrigg for twelve months to come.