Celie wanted them to send four shillings, but the Club unanimously declined, because the grocer's boy said that the chief's apples were only second quality.
And the Club had every confidence in the grocer's boy being well-informed on the point.
"Our roads separate here."
ADVENTURE XIX.
THE PILGRIMS OF THE PENNY GAFF.
The junior partner was, as he expressed it, "down on his luck." He was heartily sorry for himself, and indeed the fault was not all his own. It was now some considerable time since he began regularly to see home the lady member of the Knuckle Dusters' Club, and perhaps he had begun to some extent to presume upon his standing. He had, in fact, taken it upon him to warn her as to the difficulties of her position.
"It is not right for a young lady to be about in this district at night—no girl ought to do it, whatever be her motive."