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Updated: July 5, 2025
You shrink from sleeping in the open air; you equally shrink from going to the fourpenny Dosshouse where, in the midst of strange and ribald company, you may be robbed of the remnant of the money still in your possession. While at a loss as to what to do, someone who sees you suggests that you should go to our Shelter.
"But I assure you " "Mr. Vivian, it's useless really. I find you hidden away in the inner room of Jellybrand's with Mr. Sagittarius, closely guarded by Frederick Smith; fourpenny champagne " "Four bob shilling, I mean." "Oh, was it? Upon the table. After I've been poisoned, and we are leaving, Mr.
It came up hot at about my time every day, and many a day did I dine off it. When I dined regularly and handsomely, I had a saveloy and a penny loaf, or a fourpenny plate of red beef from a cook's shop; or a plate of bread and cheese and a glass of beer, from a miserable old public-house opposite our place of business, called the Lion, or the Lion and something else that I have forgotten.
I can stake my pistoles that is, sir, so far as a fourpenny bit goes. If ignorant of this French game, sir, cribbage or all fours?" "No," said Losely, mournfully; "there is nothing to be got out of you; otherwise" he stopped and sighed. "But I have seen you under other circumstances. What has become of your Theatrical Exhibition? Gambled it away?
"And a bunch of radishes and a pint of fourpenny would be fivepence-half-penny the lot, sir." "If you please. And, if you please, that will do," said I, drawing a shilling from the bag, for the thought of the herrings made me ravenous, and I wanted her to go. She returned quickly with the bread, and herrings. The "fourpenny" proved to be beer.
He sighed and took his place by his companion's side. With his hat at a very distinct angle indeed, with a fourpenny cigar, ornamented by a gold band, in his mouth, Burton sat before a hard-toned piano and vamped. "Pretty music, The Chocolate Soldier," he remarked, with an air of complete satisfaction in his performance.
"Friend Kettle, you put a steamer on the ground in the lower Congo; you probably had a bad record elsewhere, or you'd never have drifted to the Congo service at all; and now you're up here on the Haut Congo skippering a rubbishy fourpenny stern-wheel launch, which of course is a lot beneath your precious dignity.
The cab, too, had something of the sinister, in that it was haunted by the ghosts of a fourpenny cigar and a sixpenny bottle of scent which continued a lugubrious flirtation; and the windows rattled a danse macabre. At last it pulled up at the door of Emmy's Mansions in Chelsea. She looked at him very piteously, like a frightened child.
They played two or three games for nothing, and then the old man took a fourpenny bit, worn very thin and smooth, out from his pocket, and he called to the rest to put something on the game. Then they all put down something on the boards, and little as it was it looked much, from the way it was shoved from one to another, first one man winning it and then his neighbour.
'I've engaged to make her my lawful wife; an' I won't go from my word under two gallon o' fourpenny. "'You agreed to hand her over for one gallon, first along, says t'other, an' a bargain's a bargain. "Says the woman, 'You're a pair o' hair-splitting shammicks, the pair of 'ee. "Now Ould Wounds looked at the woman; an' 'tis to be thought he found her eyeable, for he axed up sharp
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