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"Because you made me laugh," replied Godfrey, "whereby I lost at least eighteenpennyworth of information." "A laugh is worth eighteenpence," suggested Arthur. "That depends upon how many eighteenpences one possesses. You may have lots, some people are short of them." "Quite true. I never looked at it in that way before.
Skylarks, indeed! They should call themselves Vultures; for they can only do as they do by eating up their innocent wives and children. Eighteenpence a week! And if it was only that, do you know what fifty-two eighteenpences come to in a year? Do you ever think of that, and see the gowns I wear?
With another sigh Mr Knag took up the kitchen candles from the counter, and preceded the ladies with mournful steps to a back-parlour, where a charwoman, employed in the absence of the sick servant, and remunerated with certain eighteenpences to be deducted from her wages due, was putting the supper out.
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