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A Rider Haggard introduces us to a lady whose age is a few years more than the average woman would care to confess to; and pictures crabs larger than the usual shilling or eighteen-penny size. The number of so called imaginative writers who visit the moon is legion, and for all the novelty that they find, when they get there, they might just as well have gone to Putney.
Hence to Samuel Peel, total abstainer and temperance reformer, the Tiger, despite its vast respectability and the reputation of its eighteen-penny ordinary, was a place of sin, a place of contamination; briefly, a "gin palace," if not a "gaming-saloon." The thought that his great-nephew and his niece had actually slept there horrified him.
"Quite true, madam," I answered. "Are you the new proprietor?" she asked. "I am his nephew," I told her. "He is not here this evening." "Are you going to keep on the eighteen-penny dinner?" she asked. "We are going to alter nothing," I assured her, "so long as our customers are satisfied." She nodded, and eyed me more critically. "You don't seem cut out for this sort of thing," she remarked.
Now, had it been printed within the compass of an eighteen-penny or two shilling catechism, the desired object would have been obtained; but, as it appears, in the type of a large church prayer-book, what may have been gained in arrangement, must be paid for in paper and print, so that no good purpose is ultimately effected.
'Ay, we must suppose the unhappy man to reply, 'that's the very question which I was going to answer, if you wouldn't be so violent. 'Well, answer it then. However, let us have the secret. 'The secret, replied Pope, 'is, that some time in the reign of Charles the Second when I won't be positive, but I'm sure it was after the Restoration three gentlemen wrote an eighteen-penny pamphlet. 'Good!
My Michael made a Missheberach for them in synagogue the Sabbath after the engagement; not a common eighteen-penny benediction, but a guinea one, with half-crown blessings thrown in for his parents and the congregation, and a gift of five shillings to the minister. That was of course in our own Chevrah, not reckoning the guinea my Michael shnodared at Duke's Plaizer Shool.
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