A gentleman once gave Osmond Greville
two sovereigns; why should not Colonel Carey be equally liberal? And
to hear the boy, those two sovereigns would buy everything in the
world, from the pig to a double-barrelled gun. David began to grow
hurt, and to fear the Toby fund would be lost in this magnificence;
but Hal assured him that it would be a help, and they should all have
a share in the pig, promising presents to everybody, which Susan and
Annie expected with the more certainty that Sam was never present to
laugh down these fine projects.
Indeed Miss Fosbrook had laughed at them once or twice, and observed
that she thought money earned or spared a better thing than money
given; and this caused Hal to cease to try to dazzle her, though he
could not give up the pleasure of regaling his sisters in private
with the wonders to be done with Colonel Carey's possible sovereigns.
CHAPTER VIII.
The second week was prosperous: the treasury made progress; and
Christabel began to feel as if her pupils were not beyond her
management, as at first she had feared.
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