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Barrett, and 'Jane, I says, 'this must stop, and stop at once; we are commanded to avoid evil, I says, 'and it must come to an end now; let him get help elsewhere. "And she says to me, 'John, she says, 'it's four-and-sixpence a week' them was her words. "'Jane, I says, 'if it was forty-six thousand pounds it should stop'... and from that day to this she hasn't set foot inside that gate."
For this object, he bought a rusty old gun for four-and-sixpence, and invested in a few boxes and bottles for catching insects. He had therefore only the night hours between nine and six to do all his collecting.
Brown's direction to her servant, when sending for some sugar; "say it is for Mrs. Brown, and he will give it a little better." The grocer, keenly alive to the weaknesses of his fellow-creatures, encourages this notion. "This tea," he says, "would be four-and-sixpence a pound to any one else, but to you it is only four-and-threepence."
"These, my love," said Mrs Feasible, who came in from a long walk, with her bonnet still on, "these are three shillings and sixpence a hundred; and these, which are a size larger, are four-and-sixpence. Which do you think we ought to have?" "Why, really, my dear, when one sends out so many, I do not see why we should incur unnecessary expense. The three-and-sixpenny ones are quite large enough."
"Do we pay four-and-sixpence a week for this cottage, or don't we?" he demanded. "And always have done," said Mrs Machin. "I should like to see the landlord put it up," she added, formidably, as if to say: "I'd landlord him, if he tried to put my rent up!" "Well," said Denry, "here we are living in a four-and-six-a-week cottage, and do you know how much I'm making?
Well, no, I don't suppose he could get four-and-sixpence a day for being hung, take the year round; but then he stands a chance to save a considerable part of his soul, and such a soul! when you do not. No doubt you can get more in your market for a quart of milk than for a quart of blood, but that is not the market that heroes carry their blood to.
His womenkind don't seem to be his strong point but as she doesn't earn even four-and-sixpence a week very sadly the contrary I won't tell you any more now, or you'll forget. Next time!" When Marcella Maxwell was at last left alone, she began to pace slowly up and down the large bare room, as it was very much her wont to do.
It is partly the hot weather's fault, for people seem to forget that winter must come; and partly, I suppose, that every one is stocked who has the money to pay four-and-sixpence a pair for stockings." "Then may I ask if you have any time in your active days at liberty?" said my lady, drawing a little nearer to her proposal, which I fancy she found it a little awkward to make.
James Ollerenshaw. He was watching a man who earned four-and-sixpence a day by gently toying from time to time with a roller on the polished surface of the green. Mr. James Ollerenshaw's age was sixty; but he looked as if he did not care. His appearance was shabby; but he did not seem to mind.
Moffat, and his present occupation was that of doorkeeper at a gambling-house in Covent Garden; where, though he saw many thousands pass daily under his eyes, his own salary amounted to no more than four-and-sixpence weekly, a sum quite insufficient to maintain him in the rank which he held. Mr.
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