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Glegg's eyes, "it'll be bought up by the huckster's wife at Fibb's End, that's where it'll go ten shillin' for the whole lot ten yards, countin' the damaged un five-an'-twenty shillin' 'ud ha' been the price, not a penny less. But I'll say no more, mum; it's nothing to you, a piece o' muslin like that; you can afford to pay three times the money for a thing as isn't half so good.
"Two shillin' an' sixpence!" said the Pedler. "When I saw you last time, you offered much the same belt for a shilling," I demurred. "Ah!" nodded the Pedler, "but belts is riz 'arf-a-crown's the price take it or leave it." "It's getting late," said I, slipping the money into his hand, "and I'll wish you good night!" "You're in a 'urry about it, ain't you?" "Yes."
She was decent, the poor creature, he thought. Her poor rags were clean and mended. She had a shrinking, suffering air. The boy, who was about nine years old, seemed to cling to her as though in terror of the burly ruffian. He was pale and thin and even on this beautiful June day he looked cold. Patsy was suddenly gentle. He saw the glare in the tramp's eyes. "Here's a shillin' for you," he said.
"I were," cried the prizefighter, working himself into another rage, "ah! an' I'm proud of it. I'd fight any man as ever wore breeches why, burn me! I'd give any man ten shillin' as could stand up to me for ten minutes." "Ten shillings!" said I to myself, "ten shillings, when one comes to think of it, is a very handsome sum more especially when one is penniless and destitute!"
Well, the rim is as stiff and as sharp as a cleaver, that's a fact, I don't wonder it cut you. 'Eddis's pictur capital painting, fell out of the barge, and was drowned. 'Having been beat on the shillin' duty; they will attach him on the fourpence, and thimble rigg him out of that. 'They say Sugden is in town, hung in a bad light, at the Temple Church. 'Who is that? 'Lady Fobus; paired off for the Session; Brodie operated. Lady Francis; got the Life Guards; there will be a division to-night. That's Sam Slick; I'll introduce you; made a capital speech in the House of Lords, in answer to Brougham Lobelia voted for the bill The Duchess is very fond of Irish Arms
Do you jist go and mesmerise John Russell, and Macauley, and the other officers of the regiment of Reformers, and then take the awkward squad of recruits fellers that were made drunk with excitement, and then enlisted with the promise of a shillin', which they never got, the sargeants having drank it all; go and mesmerise them all, from General Russell down to Private Chartist, clap 'em into a caterwaulin' or catalapsin' sleep, or whatever the word is, and make 'em tell the secrets of their hearts, as Dupotet did the Clear-voyancing gall, and jist hear what they'll tell you.
But I know that God brings help and I know this much more that he will not bring it to the man who has not begun to try to help himself, and never fails to bring it to the man who has. Weel, as I've told ye, it was for twa shillin' a week that I first worked.
"Martha," he said, "I'm goin' off now to attend to my business, but I haven't made a rap yet to-day, and its hard working on a empty stomach, so I just looked in to light my pipe, and enquire if you hadn't got a shillin' about you, eh!" The girl looked troubled. "Oh, very well," cried Sparks, with an offended air, "if you don't want to accommodate me, never mind, I can get it elsewhere."
Give it here." "I want to be friends with you, and try to do something for you." "Yes, I knows you do. You've got to bring me a shillin' every week, or else I'll give it yer, so as you'd wish yer'd never been born. I'll larn yer. Give me that sixpence." "Leave go first." "Give's that sixpence, d'yer hear?" cried Pete, clapping his other hand on Tom, and shaking him.
I wanted to borrer a shillin' of him last week, and he wouldn't lend it to me." This Tom Wilkins was a boot-black like the two who were expressing so unfavorable an opinion of his character. He had a mother and two sisters partially dependent upon him for support, and faithfully carried home all his earnings.
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