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He was surrounded by a dozen most rascally-looking be-turbaned councillors, who, after we had been shown over the palace, were none of them above taking a shilling fee.
But mark! on condition that you leave the Guards, and either reside with me, or at least leave London, till your majority is attained. If you refuse these conditions you lose the legacy. It is rather strange that this curious character should take such pains with your morals, and yet not leave me a single shilling. But justice is out of fashion nowadays; your showy virtues only are the rage.
In another case I got a poor little creature of two years of age I can see her now, with arms no thicker than my finger from her drunken 'guardian' for a shilling.
'How much for this now? 'Two precious silver shillings, said Miss Wren. Riah confirmed her with two nods, as Fledgeby looked to him. A nod for each shilling. 'Well, said Fledgeby, poking into the contents of the basket with his forefinger, 'the price is not so bad. You have got good measure, Miss What-is-it. 'Try Jenny, suggested that young lady with great calmness.
It is true, if the tithes are bought up, the cottager must pay more rent to his landlord; but the same thing done in the shape of rent is less odious than when it is done in the shape of tithe. I do not want to take a shilling out of the pockets of the clergy, but to leave the substance of things, and to change their names.
Never didn't pay a shilling I lost in my life! It's deuced hard, when a fellow is on the square like that, to make two ends meet when he comes across defaulters. Those fellows should be hung. They're the very scum of the earth. Talk of welchers! They're worse than any welcher. Welcher is a thing you needn't have to do with if you're careful.
The haughty young lady also blushed. She did not often blush; when she did, she felt angry with herself. "A shilling and a penny," demanded Grindley junior. The haughty young lady counted out the money and departed. Grindley junior, peeping from behind a tin of Abernethy biscuits, noticed that as she passed the window she turned and looked back. She was a very pretty, haughty lady.
'May I come with you? asked the little maid, and went off into a prattle: 'I spent that five shillings I bought a shilling's worth of sweet stuff, and nine penn'orth of twine, and a shilling for small wax candles to light in my room when I'm going to bed, because I like plenty of light by the looking-glass always, and they do make the room so hot!
Finally Jennie's eye, grown sharp with want, saw one. Not too well dressed, kind-faced, middle-aged. She fell into step beside him. "Please, can you help me out with a shilling?" Jennie's nose was red, and her eyes watery. Said the middle-aged family man with the kindly face: "Beat it. You've had about enough I guess."
Instead of calling for a shilling, or two shillings, a week in order to maintain men who are starving in idleness because of a dispute with their masters, why should there not be a levy kept up for weeks or months, by the workers, for the purpose of setting themselves up in business as masters?