“Not half that—how could there, you careless creature? You forget all the extravagances we have been committing, and this entire week of unheard-of indulgence.”
'I was always 'had up' for my arithmetic at school. Old Hoskins used to say my figures would be the ruin of me.
The tone of honest sorrow in which he said this threw Julia into a fit of laughing.
“Here is the total of our worldly wealth,” said she, emptying on a rustic table the leather bag, and running her fingers through a mass of silver in which a few gold coins glittered.
“It seems very little, Julia,” said he, despondingly.
“Worse than that. It is less than it looks, George; these tarnished pieces, with a mock air of silver, are of most ignoble origin; they were born copper, and are only silver by courtesy. Let me see what it all makes.”
While she was arranging the money in little piles on the table L'Estrange lighted a cigarette, and puffed it in leisurely fashion.
“Julia,” said he, at last, “I hope I haven't committed a dreadful folly in that investment of your two thousand. You know I took the shares I told you of?”