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Had she not lived long enough to learn that "the rank is but a guinea's stamp," and that, though repulsive without, he might be "a man for a' that?" In the twilight of the underground apartment, the figures of each were dimly discernible, but there was abundance of room for all to circulate without interfering with each other.
All were re-baptized in 1853, but they show no sign of Christianity save crosses, and they are the only prostitutes on the river. According to others, the inscription mentioned only the date, the king, and the captain. The Padrao of the Congo was especially called from the "Lord of Guinea's favourite saint, de Sao Jorge" sit faustum!
I said there was not half a guinea's worth of pleasure in seeing this place. JOHNSON. 'But, Sir, there is half a guinea's worth of inferiority to other people in not having seen it. BOSWELL. 'I doubt, Sir, whether there are many happy people here. JOHNSON. 'Yes, Sir, there are many happy people here. There are many people here who are watching hundreds, and who think hundreds are watching them.
M'Catchley was amused and pleased with his freshness and naivete, so unlike anything she had ever heard or seen, and she drew him on and on till Leonard fell to quoting. And Richard heard, with less respect for the sentiment than might be supposed, that "Rank is but the guinea's stamp, The man's the gowd for a' that." "Well!" exclaimed Mr. Avenel.
"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.
"But anyway," concluded Percival, after he had explained Mauburn's position to his sister, "he's a good fellow, and if you suit each other even the unexpected wouldn't make any difference." "Of course not," she assented, "'the rank is but the guinea's stamp, I know but I wasn't meaning to be married for quite a time yet, anyway, it's such fun just being engaged." "A mint julep?"
"Ruin you!" said the other; "what! by winning a guinea's change? a pretty small dodger you if you have not sufficient capital, why do you engage in so deep a trade as thimbling? come, will you stand another game?" "Och, sure, master, no! the twenty shillings and one which you have cheated me of were all I had in the world." "Cheated you," said Jack, "say that again, and I will knock you down."
So, you jest keep him till he's called for; and I've left you plenty of corn out there to feed him on. You can study your books here about as well as you can in town, and I wish you'd sorter look after the things. Parker will drive us over to the station." "And am I to go also?" I asked. "No, I believe not. It's Guinea's arrangement and not mine. Let her have her own way.
But don't expect that you're goin' to come here and get glutted by a middle- weight champion for nothing." "That's my way too, Tom," said my burly neighbour. "If they put down a guinea on the counter which they do if they 'ave been drinkin' very 'eavy I give them what I think is about a guinea's worth and take the money." "But if they don't?"
"There are various ranks among women," Mrs. Marygold said, firmly. "True. But, 'The rank is but the guinea's stamp, The man's the gold for a' that. "Mere position in society does not make any of us more or less a true woman.
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