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This left him with eight-and-sixpence; and for three-and-sixpence he bought a work-box for his grandmother, with a view of Plymouth Hoe on the lid. But now came the crux. What should he get for his father? "It must be a book," George suggested. "But what kind of a book? He has so many." "Something in Latin."
I did not want a kerosene stove, but for fun I tried him on a low figure "Sixpence," I said. "Whew!" The Persian looked about him dreamily. Did he sleep, did he dream? "You don't buy a machine for sixpence," said he. "I bought this second-hand for eight-and-sixpence. I can offer it to you for nine shillings as a favour." "Oh no, sixpence; not a farthing more." I walked away.
It fell out on the road twice going uphill. After the second fall my hair tonic slowly oozed forth from the seams, and added a fresh ingredient to the smells of the grimy cushions and the damp hay that furnished the machine. My hair tonic costs eight-and-sixpence a bottle. There is probably not in the United Kingdom a worse-planned entrance gate than Robert Trinder's.
The hotel bill came to fifteen guineas; and my friend, after reckoning everything up, found that the cheeses had cost him eight-and-sixpence a pound. He said he dearly loved a bit of cheese, but it was beyond his means; so he determined to get rid of them. He threw them into the canal; but had to fish them out again, as the bargemen complained. They said it made them feel quite faint.
'We might sublet it, he continued, in the same tone, 'for the last year of the lease. 'And where do you propose to live? Amy inquired, coldly. 'There's no need to be in such a dear neighbourhood. We could go to one of the outer districts. One might find three unfurnished rooms for about eight-and-sixpence a week less than half our rent here. 'You must do as seems good to you.
Young Lochgair, heir to untold acres in the far north and master of unlimited pocket-money, admitted frankly that the sum of eight-and-sixpence per day, which he was now earning by the sweat of his brow and the expenditure of shoe-leather, was sweeter to him than honey in the honeycomb.
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