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"Would a pot of beer help you to understand me?" I said, and offered him the sixpence. "A pot ain't no great things," he answered, taking the sixpence doubtfully. "It may lead to something better," I said. His eyes began to twinkle, and he came close to me. Oh, how my legs trembled how my head swam! "This is all in a friendly way, is it?" he asked, in a whisper. I nodded my head.
Or you may find both in each, and not know which is senior waiter and which junior waiter. But for service I always prefer the old waiter with the dirty towel, and I find it more easy to satisfy him in the matter of sixpence when my relations to the inn come to an end. "Have you been here long, John," said Mr Toogood. "A goodish many years, sir." "So I thought, by the look of you.
And then, too, there is her secret hoard of love documents; the broken sixpence, the gilded brooch, the lock of hair, the unintelligible love scrawl, all treasured up in her box of Sunday finery, for private contemplation.
On another occasion, in July 1841, William, while driving with a friend, was attacked by two handsome, dark-eyed girls, dressed in gipsy costume, who ran one on each side of the carriage, begging that the kind gentleman would give them sixpence, as they were poor strangers who had taken nothing all day. Mr.
"He always yells like that at the sight of tramps or stray people about," apologised the cook. "He's better than a watch-dog. Hold your tongue, you baste; don't you know your misthress when you see her?" "Rafferty caught him in the park," said Phyl, "and cut his tongue with a sixpence so as to make him able to speak." They left the kitchen and came into the yard.
Dazzled by the accounts of some successful ventures made by neighbors, Derblay began to dream of doubling his capital by speculation, and accordingly invested the two or three thousand francs of his savings in shares which were to bring him fifteen per cent., but which ultimately left him without a sixpence.
I could have done it quite as effectually for myself; but, it seems, the old people of the neighborhood haunt about the church-yard, in spite of the frowns and remonstrances of the sexton, who grudges them the half-eleemosynary sixpence which they sometimes get from visitors.
This we concluded all the best news, and my Lord Brouncker and myself did give Sir G. Carteret our sixpence a-piece, which he did give Mr. Smith to give the poor. Thus we made ourselves mighty merry. 17th. With Captain Erwin, discoursing about the East Indys, where he hath often been.
I've got no bread where should I? I've got no fire how can I give one shilling and sixpence a hundred for coals? And if I did, who'd fetch 'em home? And if I dared break a hedge for a knitch o' wood, they'd put me in prison, they would, with the worst. What be I to do? What be you going to do? That's what I came here for.
Then each child paid so much say sixpence and got a large quantity of bread, and so much cake, and if there was not enough to go round the last ones had to go away without any. At the fish shops there are different ways of doing this at different shops.
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