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I paid one pound, six shillings and three-pence for the two seats, and three pounds, eighteen and nine-pence for the pleasure of sitting alone with my wife, and thought it cheap at that. It was a far lower price than the actual need demanded; therefore, by your own showing, it was not extravagant." "Oh, what a boy it is!" sighed Helen, with a little gesture of despair.
What's more is, as I shouldn't say nought about the scrimmage; specially as we're not hurt, or you won't get leave again." "But you are hurt, Dick." "Bah! Don't call that hurt, dear lad. I'm as right as nine-pence. You go on, and think about what I've said." "I will, Dick," said Bob; "but take care of the fish." "Ay, ay, sir." "But I say, Dick." "Ay, ay, sir." "How did the dinghy get loose?
These provisions amounted to the sum of eleven millions and seventy-nine thousand seven hundred and twenty-two pounds, six shillings and ten-pence, exceeding the grants in the sum of five hundred and ninety-three thousand two hundred and sixty-five pounds, six shillings and nine-pence, so that the nation had reason to hope that this surplus of above half a million would prevent any demand for deficiencies in the next session.
The bailiffs is in, lydie, an' if I don't take 'orne nine-pence for the rent they'll seize ther kerosene case, an' ther flour-sack, and ther rest iv ther drorin-room furniture, kind lydie." A gay vivandiere led Nickie to a portly Henry VIII. "Sire," she said, "this poor man claims king's bounty for his three sets of triplets. I humbly commend him to your majesty."
"Well, sister, it's only two and nine-pence, and poor Becky will be miserable if she don't get one." "Send Miss Sedley instantly to me," was Miss Pinkerton's only answer. And, venturing not to say another word, poor Jemima trotted off, exceedingly flurried and nervous, while the two pupils, Miss Sedley and Miss Sharp, were making final preparation for their departure for Miss Sedley's home.
"Six-pence to begin with," said the constable. "Seven-pence," cried another voice. "Eight-pence," stammered poor Raphael. "Nine-pence," replied the other. "Ten-pence," said Raphael, gasping for breath.
So they chose a humble shop, and the girls bought cotton gloves, the kind at a shilling, but when they offered a guinea the woman looked at it through her spectacles and said she had no change; so the gloves had to be paid for out of Cyril's money with which he meant to buy rabbits and so had the green imitation crocodile-skin purse at nine-pence which had been bought at the same time.
A bushel of ground wheat weighing sixty pounds will produce thirteen quartern loaves and a half of fine bread, after the bran and pollard have been taken out; add to the price of the wheat, nine-pence a bushel for grinding, three-pence for yeast, four-pence for salt and the expence of baking; and from this deduct six-pence at least for the value of the bran and pollard, and it gives the price of the quartern loaves made and baked at home.
The very immensity of her claim rendered it ridiculous; but Richard was too astonished to guess an utterance so hyperbolic had been made to offer him an easy victory. "You thought that, Nelly? 'The Seven Stars' more to it than 'The Tiger'?" "Surely!" "Because you get a few tea-parties and old women at nine-pence a head on your little bit of grass?"
Mabel's aunt prided herself on her tasteful touch in the home, and had studied the arrangement of flowers in a series of articles in Home Drivel called "How to Make Home High-class on Nine-pence a Week". The great crystal chandeliers, released from the bags that at ordinary times shrouded them, gleamed with grey and purple splendour.
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