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Then I am compelled to believe that the public educate the paper; yet suicides on the press are rare. Just when the sense of unreality and oppression was strongest upon me, and when I most wanted help, a man sat at my side and began to talk what he called politics. I had chanced to pay about six shillings for a travelling-cap worth eighteen-pence, and he made of the fact a text for a sermon.
The soliloquies alone are well worth fifteen shillings; then there is the stabbing King Henry—decidedly cheap at three-and-sixpence, that’s eighteen-and-sixpence; bullying the coffin-bearers—say eighteen-pence, though it’s worth much more—that’s a pound.
He would have experienced no difficulty in discounting a bill accepted by such a firm. It seems hardly conceivable that he should preserve this piece of paper when he had only eighteen-pence in the world. Everything seems to point to the fact that in May 1825 Borrow was not in want of money, and if he were not, why did he almost kill himself by writing the Life and Adventures of Joseph Sell?
For the poetry of political enthusiasm he had certainly no vocation. When Savoy was surrendered to France Mrs Browning suffered some pain lest her Emperor's generosity might seem compromised. Browning admitted that the liberation of Italy was a great action, adding cynically of his future Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangau, "But he has taken eighteen-pence for it, which is a pity."
In those days the postage of a letter was twopence for short distances, and threepence for any distance beyond eighty miles. But those charges had been gradually increased; about the middle of the century the lowest charge was fixed at fourpence, rising in proportion to the distance, till the conveyance of a single letter from one extremity of the kingdom to the other cost eighteen-pence.
I want to walk to Wellington, to get some things at Cherry's." Pike? Ah! I am very glad of that. But I fear it can only be fly-books." "I want a little Horace for eighteen-pence the Cambridge one just published, to carry in my pocket and a new hank of gut." "Which of the two is more important? Put that into Latin, and answer it." "Utrum pluris facio? Flaccum flocci. Viscera magni."
Gamp' she says, in answer, 'if ever there was a sober creetur to be got at eighteen-pence a day for working people, and three-and-six for gentlefolks, night-watching being a extra charge, you are that inwallable person. Never did I think, till I know'd you, as any woman could sick-nurse and monthly likeways, on the little that you takes to drink. 'Mrs.
He then shared his money with me, which amounted to eighteen-pence, and left me with an intention to borrow an old wig and hat of his friend the schoolmaster.
And that amount, though it might not be amiss in a three-volume edition, would be inconvenient when the book comes to be published for eighteen-pence. But the gist of the will was as follows. It was dated in the October last gone by, at the time when George was about to start for Egypt, and when Lady Harcourt had already left her husband.
You couldn't sing a comic song on the pony's back, could you? 'No, replied Nicholas, 'I couldn't indeed. 'It has drawn money before now, said Mr Crummles, with a look of disappointment. 'What do you think of a brilliant display of fireworks? 'That it would be rather expensive, replied Nicholas, drily. 'Eighteen-pence would do it, said Mr Crummles.
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