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"But we don't," interrupted Guilder, in the temperate voice peculiar to his negative character. "Anyway," insisted Quair, "here's what I think of 'em " "My model, yonder," said Drene, a slight shrug of contempt, "happens to be feminine, and may also be human. Be decent enough to defer the development of your rather tiresome theory."
Oh! how deeply did he desire such wealth and the power which it would bring with it; he who was dependent upon others that looked down upon him as a lazy dreamer, who had never a guilder to spare in his pouch, who had nothing indeed but more debts than he cared to remember. But it never occurred to him to set to work and grow rich like his neighbours by honest toil and commerce.
The pilots who bring in ships from the outside bring them to the Texel roadstead or the Helder, and others take them to Amsterdam or elsewhere; and those who take them from Amsterdam, go no further than the Texel road or the Vlie, and other pilots carry them out to sea. The fee of the pilots is a guilder a foot for every foot the ship draws, though any sum may be fixed by agreement.
But this is enough of the world to suit me, Guilder and I can go to a noisy restaurant to eat in when I'm so inclined " He laughed a rather mirthless laugh and glanced up, catching a peculiar expression in Guilder's eyes. "You're thinking," said Drene coolly, "what a god I once set up on the altar of domesticity.
Schaff, Church History, 3 vi., p. 470, calls it a guilder and says it was equal to about $4.00 of the present day. Preserved Smith, Life of Luther, p. 367, fixes its intrinsic value at about fifty cents, but believes its purchasing power was almost twenty times as great.
Meanwhile, I have my own beliefs." "That's all that's necessary," said Guilder, gravely, " to entertain some belief, temporary or final." He smiled slightly down at Drene's drawn, gray visage. "You and I have been friends of many years, Drene, but we have never before talked this way.
In most of the countries of Europe, when you make a bargain for the carriage, the driver's services are not included in it. He expects a fee besides. "The driver, fifty cents. Half a guilder," said James. "Is that enough for him?" asked Mr. George. "Yes, sir," said James, "that's enough." "We will call it seventy-five cents," said Mr. George. So saying, he wrote seventy-five.
Calculating sugar at £20. per cask, and £3. per barrel; rum 150 guilders, or £12. 10s. per puncheon; coffee 1s. per lb.; cotton £20. per bale of 3 cwt; and molasses a guilder, or 1s. 8d. per gallon, the total amount will be upwards of £1,600,000. This immense export has since progressively increased, and colonists are only wanting to augment it to an inconceivable extent.
The Van Houten reform of the franchise was very complicated, as there were six different categories of persons entitled to exercise the suffrage: payers of at least one guilder in direct taxation; householders or lodgers paying a certain minimum rent and having a residential qualification; proprietors or hirers of vessels of 24 tons at least; earners of a certain specified wage or salary; investors of 100 guilders in the public funds or of 50 guilders in a savings bank; persons holding certain educational diplomas.
He was landed from the boat, within half a mile of the castle, and rewarded his rowers with a guilder, to their great satisfaction.
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