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In the middle of one window there was a copious mantle, of silk so thick that it stood almost alone, very full in its dimensions, and admirable in its fashion. This mantle, which would not have been dearly bought for 3l. 10s. or 4l., was injudiciously ticketed at 38s. 11½d.
Leyds had suppressed the essential fact that whereas out of the 90s. paid to the monopolists the Government only receive 5s. by way of duty, they would out of the 90s. which it was proposed to pay for Nobel's dynamite receive no less than 38s. per case as duty, and that if the contract proposed by the Chamber had been made the Government would have profited during the previous four years to the extent of £1,200,000 instead of £150,000.
In London and Westminster all this day paying of money and buying of things for my house. In coming back I called at Paul's Churchyard and bought Alsted's Encyclopaedia, which cost me 38s. Home and to bed, my wife being much troubled with her old pain. There came some pills and plaister this morning from Dr. Williams for my wife.
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