eighteen-shillin

Updated: May 22, 2025

Welden frankly, "for the Lord to look at it for I must say, miss, if I was struck down for it, though I s'pose it's only my sinful ignorance that there's times when the Lord seems to think no more of sweepin' away a steady eighteen-shillin' a week, and p'raps seven in family, an' one at the breast, an' another on the way than if it was nothin'. But likely enough, eighteen shillin' a week an' confinements does seem paltry to the Maker of 'eaven an' earth."

Frances Hodgson Burnett - The Shuttle