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After more than a year in the British service I could not, on the spur of the moment, say exactly why I was there. To be perfectly frank with myself and with the reader I had no very lofty motives when I took the King's shilling.
"There ain't no parties to-night, sir; it's too 'ot." "We're not expecting to drop into a ballroom without being asked, thank you," said Gordon. "We want to go to one of those saloons where you pay a shilling to go in. Some place where the larrikins go." "Ho! is that it, sir?" said the cabman, with a grin. "Well, I'll take you to a noo place, most selectest place I know. Git up, 'orse."
"So am I, too," said Jasmine, the April cloud quickly leaving her expressive face "I'm so glad I have you with me, dear Poppy; I was feeling so low just now that I should never have noticed the office of The Joy-bell it has a very nice, high-class sound, and I should say was a more attractive magazine than even a shilling one.
Tommy was naturally generous, and now his mind was unusually softened by the remembrance of his own recent distresses; he therefore pulled a shilling out of his pocket and gave it to the man, saying, "Here, my honest friend, here is something to buy your child some food, and I sincerely wish he may soon recover."
I did so, and, in passing round the table for the purpose of retiring, some gave me a shilling, some sixpence, so that I had more money than I had ever before possessed in my life. I ate a hearty breakfast in the kitchen, the servants asking me a number of impertinent questions.
"What is up here?" the cabman asked. "Do you see this young snip?" the boys cried, "He pretends to drive a cab!" "Yes, I do see him," said the cabman. "I see you, too. You'd better take yourselves away from here or you won't find me very agreeable!" And they went in a hurry! When Diamond went home that night, he carried one pound, one shilling and six-pence.
Under this stipulation they were to be furnished with tea, coffee, punch, pipes and tobacco, for themselves and their friends, as much as they could consume; they were also to pay half a rupee, or one shilling and three-pence a-day for each of their servants. "One of the greatest difficulties," says he, "that strangers have to encounter, is their being obliged to live at the hotel.
Soldiers used in digging trenches received, over and above their regular pay, a daily wage of from ten to fifteen styvers, or nearly a shilling sterling. Another most wholesome improvement made by the prince was in the payment of his troops. The system prevailing in every European country at that day, by which Governments were defrauded and soldiers starved, was most infamous.
'I fear that he must lie upon his bed as he has made it, said the doctor sorrowfully. 'It is a complaint which money cannot cure, but can always exaggerate. If, without costing myself or my family a shilling, I could put a thousand pounds into his hands to-morrow, I do not know whether I ought to do it. 'You will remember my offer. The doctor thanked him, and said that he would remember.
ORANGES IN JELLY. Cut a hole in the stalk part, the size of a shilling, and with a blunt knife scrape out the pulp quite clear without cutting the rind. Tie each part separately in muslin, and lay them in spring water two days, changing the water twice a day. In the last water boil them over a slow fire till they are quite tender.
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