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The splinters flew, but the door held good; and when he stayed a moment to take a new grip on his axe, I heard a clamour of voices outside Simon's, higher than the rest, crying, "My new door, that cost me seven and eightpence!" "The lock, the lock!" says I. "Strike that off."
Oh, yes, he caught them just the same, and sent them up to London, but that was all they were worth to him. For young male linnets he got eightpence, sometimes tenpence; for hen birds fourpence, or less. I dare say that eightpence was what he hoped to get, seeing that young male linnets are not unfrequently sold by London dealers for sixpence and even fourpence.
And so, while she held Legree's dog, whom the sound inflamed to frenzy, I popped off the crackers and dropped my cigar into Vesuvius. I tell you he was worth four and eightpence, and the man was right when he said there wasn't his match in London.
The landlord could tell us nothing about the insurgents, and indeed seemed to care very little about the matter one way or the other. 'As long as brandy pays a duty of six shillings and eightpence a gallon, and freight and leakage comes to half a crown, while I am expected to sell it at twelve shillings, it matters little to me who is King of England.
We have dinner at school; quite a good meal for ninepence, including a penny for coffee afterwards." "The same sort of coffee we have had this morning?" "Practically. A trifle better perhaps. Not much." "Hurrah!" cried Claire gaily. "That's a penny to the good! Eightpence for me a clear saving of fivepence a week!" Miss Rhodes resolutely refused to smile.
First I'll have a go at you myself. Swell the bust. Smile. Droop shoulders. What offers? Trained by owner to fetch and carry, basket in mouth. What, boys? That give you a hardon? A BIDDER: A florin. THE LACQUEY: Barang! A VOICE: One and eightpence too much. CHARLES ALBERTA MARSH: Must be virgin. Good breath. Clean. Rockbottom figure and cheap at the price. Fourteen hands high.
I deemed the incident closed, when suddenly a florid gentleman on the opposite seat called out in stentorian tones: "Hi, conductor! you've cheated these ladies out of fourpence." "'Oo's cheated 'oo out 'o fourpence?" replied the indignant conductor from the top of the steps, "it was a twopenny fare." "Two twopences don't make eightpence," retorted the florid gentleman hotly.
I will not go over the journey: we performed it on foot in twenty days; and, including lodging, our daily expense amounted to one shilling and eightpence; so that, on entering the metropolis, all we possessed was five shillings and a few pence. It was the dead of winter, and nearly dark, when we were passing down St. John Street, Clerkenwell.
Alcibiade, who, besides being an expert workman, was an excellent modeller and draughtsman, received seven marks a week, with board and lodging, or eight shillings weekly in positive cash. Peterkin the Dane, who was yet a novice, was in the receipt of four marks a week, and paid for his own lodging—weekly pay, four shillings and eightpence.
When the labourer's wages were eightpence or tenpence per day, in 1683, wheat averaged forty-five shillings per quarter. How comparatively happy is the present state of our agricultural labourers; and so would be that of the farmer, if rent was as low now as it was at that period. Ed. To lie at catch, to watch for an opportunity to take an unfair advantage.
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