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He was on the point of cutting into the conversation and disposing of the matter himself when he realised that Emily was neither gaining colour nor losing it, but was looking honestly into her Grace's eyes with just a touch of ingenuous regret. "It was stockings," she said. "There were some marked down to one and elevenpence halfpenny at Barratt's. They were really quite good for the price.
'I 'm going into Stokeley to-morrow, she went on, 'and if you liked I could get some print and make it a few frocks. I saw some very neat at fourpence three-farthings that would wash beautiful, and a good stout flannel at elevenpence. Oh! not like that, she said as he laid a finger on some soft Saxony flannel with a pink edge which lay on the table.
The moment I saw it in the shop I said to myself 'Froplinsons' and to the attendant 'How much? When he said 'Ninepence, I gave him their address, jabbed our card in, paid tenpence or elevenpence to cover the postage, and thanked heaven. With less sincerity and infinitely more trouble they eventually thanked me." "The Froplinsons don't play bridge," said Egbert.
But I fear they will not believe it before their fate has them by the throat. Clare saw that the dog was famished. He stopped at a butcher's and bought him a scrap of meat for a penny. Then he had elevenpence with which to begin the world afresh, and was not hungry. Out on the highway they went, in a perfect English summer day, with all the world before them.
"He's got a sugar in his window at three-ha'pence; one great placard quoting primest butter at elevenpence; another setting forth that a quarter pound of tea would be given away with every half-crown spent in the shop." Mrs. Day sighed despondently. "We can't cope with him," she said. "There is no good in trying." "What do you intend to do then? Why should they, ma'am, come to think of it?"
And being only two and elevenpence none better were kept in stock the shoes were badly cut and pinched him atrociously. One at present reposed, sole upwards, on a chair where it had alighted after a vigorous aërial flight, and the other stood its ground in the middle of the floor.
"She gave the beggars five fathoms of calico for the big mainsail, two sticks of tobacco for the chronometer, and a sheath-knife worth elevenpence ha'penny for a hundred fathoms of brand new five-inch manila. She got old Kina-Kina with that strong hand on the go off, and she kept him going all the time. She here she comes now." It was with a shock of surprise that Sheldon greeted her appearance.
It had cost him ten and elevenpence; but what an agony of nervousness it had cost him!
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