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For she came out saying: "I can't only do five-and-nine, Mo. Can't you make out with that?" Uncle Mo still looked at the twelve-and-nine he already had in hand, as though it was a peculiar twelve-and-nine, that might consent for once to make nineteen shillings, the sum required, when added to Aunt M'riar's contribution; but he was obliged to yield to the inflexible nature of Arithmetic.
If Abrahams brings that little lot again to-night, tell him I'll give five-and-nine an ounce, not a fraction more." Mr. Tulliver retired, leaving the door ajar ever so little; but the penetrating black eyes of the master were quick to perceive this manoeuvre. "Will you be so good as to shut that door, sir, quite securely?" he said to Gilbert.
To drink deep of old Tokay or Asti is poetical; but when one's purse necessitates that the draught, if it is to be deep enough to drown anything, should be of thin beer at five-and-nine the four and a half gallon cask, or something similar in price, sin is robbed of its flavour.
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