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But while we were footing it accordingly, a servant stript off his livery, fell at our feet, and besought us to save him a whipping; for he said his fault was no great matter, but that some cloaths of the stewards had been stolen from him in the bath, and all of them not worth eighteen-pence.
The man in the shop, perhaps, is in the baked ‘jemmy’ line, or the fire-wood and hearth-stone line, or any other line which requires a floating capital of eighteen-pence or thereabouts: and he and his family live in the shop, and the small back parlour behind it.
And not till he reached Piccadilly did he discover that he had only eighteen-pence. One couldn't dine off eighteen-pence, and he was very hungry. He looked longingly at the windows of the Iseeum Club, where he had often eaten of the best with his father! Those pearls! There was no getting over them! But the more he brooded and the further he walked the hungrier he naturally became.
Od, that's ane indeed!" "Well, well, you old beldam, carry your fish up to Monkbarns, and see what my sister will give you for them." "Eighteen-pence, or nothing!" "Half-a-crown then, Maggie, and a dram." "Aweel, your honour maun hae't your ain gate, nae doubt; but a dram's worth siller now the distilleries is no working." "And I hope they'll never work again in my time," said Oldbuck.
Od, that's ane indeed!" "Well, well, you old beldam, carry your fish up to Monkbarns, and see what my sister will give you for them." "Eighteen-pence, or nothing!" "Half-a-crown then, Maggie, and a dram." "Aweel, your honour maun hae't your ain gate, nae doubt; but a dram's worth siller now the distilleries is no working." "And I hope they'll never work again in my time," said Oldbuck.
There was some singing, too, from Miss Ledrook and Miss Bravassa, and very likely there might have been more, if the fly-driver, who stopped to drive the happy pair to the spot where they proposed to take steamboat to Ryde, had not sent in a peremptory message intimating, that if they didn't come directly he should infallibly demand eighteen-pence over and above his agreement.
The all-important question was, could he exist sufficiently long on eighteen-pence to complete a story? Sir Richard Phillips had told him to live on bread and water. He now did so. For a week he wrote ceaselessly at the Life and Adventures of Joseph Sell, the Great Traveller. He wrote with the feverish energy of a man who sees the shadow of actual starvation cast across his manuscript.
We have two hundred and seventy thousand pounds laid by and the Unions are spoiling for a fight. Another eighteen-pence would make life a different thing for some of our pitmen. And the masters can afford it, too. Sixteen and a half per cent is the average dividend on the largest collieries around us."
They produced a mouse, price eighteen-pence, and this mouse produced a mountain, viz., the total English literature. O day and night, but this is wondrous strange! The total English literature not the tottle only, but the tottle of the whole, like an oak and the masts of some great amiral, that once slept in an acorn absolutely lying hid in an eighteen-penny pamphlet!
"I don't want his money; please God, we'll be able to do without it to the end." "If I were to die to-morrow, Esther, remember that you would be in exactly the same position as you were when you entered my service. You remember what that was? You have often told me there was only eighteen-pence between you and the workhouse; you owed Mrs. Lewis two weeks' money for the support of the child.
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