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"Right, my lad, I do; and I'll tell you why: I bought the biggest box of pills I could get before I left London. Four-and-six I gave for it, and I have never taken one. Diseases come, and they know as well as can be that I've got that box of big pills reg'lar boluses in my kit; and they say to themselves, `This man's ready for action, with his magazine well stored! and they go somewhere else."
"'Ow-'ow much are they?" growled her husband, scowling at Mr. Chase. "All prices," replied his wife. "Yes, I know," said Mr. Teak, in a grating voice. "You go in to buy a hat at one and eleven-pence; you get talked over and flattered by a man like a barber's block, and you come out with a four-and-six penny one. The only real difference in hats is the price, but women can never see it." Mrs.
"I don't read novels," said Caiaphas tersely. "Oh, but you ought to read this one, every one ought to," exclaimed Mellowkent, fishing the book down from a shelf; "published at six shillings, you can have it at four-and-six.
Answered the man: "The price of that cap, sir, which, in my opinion, is twice as much as it is worth, is four-and-six. Would you like it wrapped up in brown paper, sir, or in white?" George said he would take it as it was, paid the man four-and-six in-silver, and went out. Harris and I followed. At Fenchurch Street we compromised with our cabman for five shillings.
To be good, to be simple, to be modest, to be loved, be thy lot. Be thankful thou art not taller, nor stronger, nor richer, nor wiser than the rest of the world! Mine is one of your No. 12 diaries, three shillings cloth boards; silk limp, gilt edges, three-and-six; French morocco, tuck ditto, four-and-six.
But it is commodious, and possesses a side-chamber which will serve us admirably for a green-room when the proprietor an affable person by the name of Tench has removed the onions at present drying on the floor; which he has engaged to do." "Are you tellin' me," inquired Sam, "that you've been and 'ired the room?" "At the derisory charge of four-and-six for the night.
Her heart said: 'Give the poor woman half a sovereign; it might comfort her! But her brain said: 'I owe her four-and-six; after what she's just been saying about her husband and that girl and Hilary, it mayn't be safe to give her more. She held out two half-crowns, and had an inspiration: "I shall mention to my sister what you've said; you can tell your husband that!"
'Why, says he, 'old Mother Baubo, that keeps the shop in my district at home, would charge me eight shillings for that turbot, four-and-six for that, eightpence for each of those sixty haddocks, and nobody knows what for the rest. Now, I've thought of that gentleman and his screech many a time since, and when I felt the light a-comin' to my eyes here, I thought again.
"'Ow-'ow much are they?" growled her husband, scowling at Mr. Chase. "All prices," replied his wife. "Yes, I know," said Mr. Teak, in a grating voice. "You go in to buy a hat at one and eleven-pence; you get talked over and flattered by a man like a barber's block, and you come out with a four-and-six penny one. The only real difference in hats is the price, but women can never see it." Mrs.
He lies on my drawing-room table in white vellum, and helps to give tone to the room. For the poet I am quite prepared to pay the four-and-six demanded; the man I don't want. To be candid, he is not worth his own discount." "It is hardly fair," urged the Minor Poet, "to confine the discussion to poets.
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