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Updated: June 28, 2025
Here the postman's knock, loud and sudden, started Mrs. Morton from her seat. She pressed her hands tightly to her heart, as if to still its beating, and went tremulously to the door; thence to the stairs, to anticipate the lumbering step of the slipshod maidservent. "Give it me, Jane; give it me!" "One shilling and eightpence double charged if you please, ma'am! Thank you."
To these sums he must add twopence for tobacco and a penny for an evening paper impossible to do without tobacco, and he must know what was going on in the world. He could therefore live for one shilling and eightpence a day eleven shillings a week to which he would have to add six shillings a week for rent, altogether seventeen shillings a week. He really did not see how he could do it cheaper.
Twenty pence are one and eightpence, That we can't afford to lose; Thirty pence are two and sixpence, That will buy a pair of shoes. Forty pence are three and fourpence, That is paid for certain fees; Fifty pence are four and twopence, That will buy five pounds of cheese.
For some time the rain had been merciless; one night after another he had been obliged to squander fourpence on a bed and reduce his board to the remaining eightpence: and he sat one morning near the Macquarrie Street entrance, hungry, for he had gone without breakfast, and wet, as he had already been for several days, when the cries of an animal in distress attracted his attention.
The superiority of its real price was still greater. At the rate of six shillings and eightpence the quarter, ten shillings was in those ancient times the price of twelve bushels of wheat. At the rate of twenty-eight shillings the quarter, one-and-twenty shillings is in the present times the price of six bushels only.
Captain Oliphant had reached this pleasant stage in his meditations one morning, as he sipped his coffee in his own room, when Raffles entered with the letters. "Eightpence to pay on this one, please, sir." It was a letter with an Indian post-mark, unstamped. The Captain regarded it with knitted brows; then tossing it on the table, said "Give it back. I won't take it in, Raffles."
Jolyon Forsyte in the matter of my divorce, to receiving his account of his visit to my wife, and to advising him to go and see her again, sixteen and eightpence." Suddenly Soames said: "I can't go on like this. I tell you, I can't go on like this." His eyes were shifting from side to side, like an animal's when it looks for way of escape.
For defraying the expense of maintaining the militia in South and North Britain, to the twenty-fourth day of December of the ensuing year, they voted an additional grant of two hundred ninety thousand eight hundred and twenty-six pounds, sixteen shillings and eightpence: and, moreover, they granted four-score thousand pounds, upon account, towards defraying the charge of pay and clothing of the unembodied militia for the year ending on the twenty-fifth day of March, in the year one thousand seven hundred and sixty-one.
There was two or three chairs, that might have been worth, in their best days, from eightpence to a shilling a-piece; a small deal table, an old corner cupboard with nothing in it, and one of those bedsteads which turn up half way, and leave the bottom legs sticking out for you to knock your head against, or hang your hat upon; no bed, no bedding.
"Oh, as to that," said he, "you are mistaken, for I have at this very time more than twopence, threepence, or eightpence either. I have let me see stones, two shillings; then five days' work that's five sixpences, that's two shillings and sixpence; in all, makes four shillings and sixpence; and my silver penny, is four and sevenpence four and sevenpence!"
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