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"Here's fifteen shilling, then, for the two," said Mrs. Glegg. "But it's a shameful price." "Nay, mum, you'll niver say that when you're upo' your knees i' church i' five years' time. I'm makin' you a present o' th' articles; I am, indeed. That eightpence shaves off my profits as clean as a razor.
He called a cab at the White Horse Cellar, and drove to Nerot's Hotel, Clifford Street; and he gave the cabman eightpence, making the fellow, who grumbled, understand that Clifford Street was not two hundred yards from Bond Street, and that he was paid at the rate of five shillings and fourpence per mile calculating the mile at only sixteen hundred yards.
Shooting-gallery a penny, that's a shilling. Giddy-go-round, a penny, that's one and a penny. Treating Tony, one and twopence. Shooting-gallery again, one and four-pence; Fat Woman a penny, one and fivepence. Giddy-go-round again, one and sixpence. Shooting-gallery, one and sevenpence. Treating Tony, and then he wouldn't shoot, so I did, one and eightpence.
In England, before 1290, a Jew paid a toll of a halfpenny on foot and a full penny on horseback large sums in those days. A "dead Jew" paid eightpence. Burial was for a long time lawful only in London, and the total toll paid for bringing a dead Jew to London over the various bridges must have been considerable.
Hendon, always alert, thought he would like to know why the officer followed the woman out; so he slipped softly into the dusky hall and listened. He heard a conversation to this effect "It is a fat pig, and promises good eating; I will buy it of thee; here is the eightpence." "Eightpence, indeed! Thou'lt do no such thing.
We rarely ate vegetables at St. Peter's, but we cultivated them assiduously; and sixpence and eightpence were quite ordinary prices for our cabbages to fetch. So, too, with dairy products. We 'inmates' saw very little of butter at table, treacle being our great standby. Peter's butter stamped 'S.P.O. was famous in the district, and esteemed, as it was priced, highly. Peter's.
Tenpence may be reckoned its price in Edinburgh and its neighbourhood. At a few miles distance, it falls to eightpence, the usual price of common labour through the greater part of the low country of Scotland, where it varies a good deal less than in England.
Here in a bar, and for the price of half a pint of beer, he sat for some twenty minutes watching the customers and killing Time, then, with his worldly wealth reduced to eightpence, he wandered off westward, passing the Savoy, and pausing for a moment to peep down the great archway at the gaily lit hotel. At midnight he had gravitated to the embankment, and found a seat not overcrowded.
'Tell 'em to call again. 'Oh, but please will you come and show the lodgings, returned the girl; 'It's eighteen shillings a week and us finding plate and linen. Boots and clothes is extra, and fires in winter-time is eightpence a day. 'Why don't you show 'em yourself? You seem to know all about 'em, said Dick.
Make the addition yourself, and it'll come to ninety-six pound, seven, and eightpence. No more, and no less. What can I say against William Butcher, about places?
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