"But you--how do you stand for money ?" Major Clutterbuck took ten sovereigns out of his trouser pocket and placed them upon the table.

"You know me law," he said; "I never, on any consideration, break into these.

You can't sit down to play cards for high stakes with less in your purse, and if I was to change one, be George! they'd all go like a whiff o' smoke.

The Lord knows when I'd get a start again then.

Bar this money I've hardly a pinny." "Nor me," said Von Baumser despondently, slapping his pockets.
"Niver mind, me boy! What's in the common purse, I wonder ?" He looked up at a little leather bag which hung from a brass nail on the wall.