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Jasper is compelled to put down his cabriolet, to discharge his groom, to retire from his fashionable lodgings; and just when the prospect even of a dinner becomes dim, he bethinks himself of Arabella Crane, and remembers that she promised him L5, nay L10, which are still due from her. He calls; he is received like the prodigal son. Nay, to his own surprise, he finds Mrs.
Godwin, who was naturally much incensed with Mary, and of whom Mary expresses her detestation in writing to Shelley. One more short letter: October 27. I do not know by what compulsion I am to answer you, but your letter says I must; so I do. By a miracle I saved your L5, and I will bring it. I hope, indeed, oh, my loved Shelley, we shall indeed be happy.
GENERAL SIR THOMAS FAIRFAX: To be made an English Baron and an Estate of L5,000 a year in lands to be settled on him and his heirs for ever: his father LORD FERDINANDO FAIRFAX at the same time to be made an English Baron. LIEUTENANT-GENERAL CROMWELL: To be made an English Baron, and an Estate of L2,500 a year to be settled on him and his heirs for ever.
The old man died; the will was read; and Philip succeeded to a rental of L20,000. a-year; Robert, to a diamond ring, a gold repeater, L5,000. and a curious collection of bottled snakes. "Stay, delightful Dream; Let him within his pleasant garden walk; Give him her arm of blessings let them talk." "There, Robert, there! now you can see the new stables.
"Fifteen or twenty years ago, such a thing as a journeyman tailor having to give security before he could get work was unknown; but now I and such as myself could not get a stitch to do first handed, if we did not either procure the security of some householder, or deposit L5 in the hands of the employer.
The officer at once made me pay sixpence import-duty on the whisky-just from ship to shore, you see; and he fined me L5 for not declaring the goods, another L5 for falsely denying that I had anything dutiable about me, also L5 for concealing the goods, and L50 for smuggling, which is the maximum penalty for unlawfully bringing in goods under the value of sevenpence ha'penny.
Up betimes, and after taking leave of my brother, John, who went from me to my father's this day, I went forth by water to Sir Philip Warwick's, where I was with him a pretty while; and in discourse he tells me, and made it; appear to me, that the King cannot be in debt to the Navy at this time L5,000; and it is my opinion that Sir G. Carteret do owe the King money, and yet the whole Navy debt paid.
I dined all alone to prevent company, which was exceeding great to-day, in my cabin. After these two were gone Sir W. Wheeler and Sir John Petters came on board and staid about two or three hours, and so went away. The Commissioners came to-day, only to consult about a further reducement of the Fleet, and to pay them as fast as they can. I did give Davis, their servant, L5 10s. to give to Mr.
There have been difficulties in the way of decorticating the stems of this plant, and the Indian Government, in 1869, offered a reward of L5,000 for the best machine for separating the fiber from the stems and bark of rhea in its green or freshly cut state.
Larkin made his own handsome estimate of his expenses, and the value of his time to and from London, and then he charged this in its entirety shall we say integrity to each client separately. In this little excursion he was concerned for no less than five. His expenses, I say, reached exactly L5 3s.
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