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Updated: June 13, 2025
I heard the old man locking the smoke-house door heard his wife singing a hymn, heard Guinea's faint foot-steps as she returned from the gate, whither she went to bid her lover good-night, and her little feet fell not upon the path, but upon my heart. I went to bed, leaving the lamp burning low, and was almost asleep when I heard Alf on the stairs.
"If you dinna treat him at once, I'll break your skull," said the mate, persuasively. The doctor regarded him scornfully, and turned to the writhing skipper. "My fee is half a guinea a visit," he said, softly; "five shillings if you come to me." "I'll have half a guinea's worth," said the agonized skipper.
"Your lordship," said he, with great gravity, "was too modest in your calculation; your taste reflects greater credit on you. Allow me to assure you that your watch is worth fifty guinea's to us, at the least.
This part of his work pleased him, for he was the sort of man who thought that the affectionate and grateful glance in the eye, and the squeeze of the hand, and the "God bless you, doctor," paid in many cases better than the guinea's worth. He had an interesting case this morning, and again Polly and her housekeeping slipped from his mind.
His weekly revenue is certainly not equal both to the guinea and to what can be purchased with it, but only to one or other of those two equal values, and to the latter more properly than to the former, to the guinea's worth rather than to the guinea.
A nice hat it is too regular beaver a guinea's worth at least. All true what I've told you, isn't it, Binjimin? "Quite!" replied Benjamin, putting his thumb to his nose, and spreading his fingers like a fan as he slunk behind his master. "But come, gentlemen," resumed Mr. Jorrocks, "let's be after going upstairs. Binjimin, announce the gentlemen as your missis taught you.
But this bright season ended quite as suddenly as it had begun; and when these great "hungers" as those veterans were entitled who dealt most freely with the marvellous had laid their heads together to produce and confirm another guinea's worth of fiction, the London press would have none of it.
In Canada social distinctions are based more upon worth than upon wealth, more upon industry and ability than upon blue blood. Nowhere in the world is it more profoundly true that "'A man's a man for a' that; The rank is but the guinea's stamp; The man's the gowd for a' that."
What would have been poor Dore's feelings had he lived to see such a guinea's worth, and cheap at the price, gladly sold, rather got rid of, for three shillings! Dore's last work, the unconventional monument to the elder Dumas, was left unfinished. Completed by another hand, the group now forms a conspicuous object in the Avenue Villiers, Paris.
"You've had your guinea's worth. Lord! what a lovely book this is! Don't interrupt me!" "Impudent scoundrel!" said Mr. Troy, when he and Moody were in the street again. "What could my friend mean by recommending him? Fancy his expecting me to trust him with ten pounds! I consider even the guinea completely thrown away." "Begging your pardon, sir," said Moody, "I don't quite agree with you there."
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